The time Todd Gurley was threatened by a troll and answered back

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This is part of a long article on trolls you can read at the link below. Good for Gurley for answering back to an anonymous jerk who is no longer quite so anonymous.
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https://www.si.com/more-sports/2018/03/29/twitter-internet-trolls-sports-athletes

That lust for contact—even if it comes as a scolding—is at the root of this phenomenon, says Justin Patchin, a criminal justice professor and the co-director of the Cyberbullying Research Center at Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

“Before social media, the only opportunity you’d have to engage with a sports figure would be to go to a game and maybe heckle or ask for an autograph,” he says. “That took work, time, money. Now you can just lift your phone and they’re right there.”

That leaves 21st-century athletes with a decision to make. Engage? And if so, how?

“Psychologically, it can be very hard to ignore hateful things being said to us,” says North. “It’s human nature to defend yourself at some point.”

Which is precisely what Todd Gurley did in 2016 when a troll using the handle @CodyHasek1 tweeted at the Rams running back: @TG3II if I ever see you in public we’re fist fighting over your fantasy football performance this year. Gurley wrote back, bluntly:

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We can all be grateful that Gurley’s troll (a 23-year-old male who works at the Ford plant in Harrisonville, Mo., and who, judging by his Facebook profile, appears to be in far worse physical shape than the All-Pro running back), did not, in fact, pull up—although there’s probably a maxillofacial surgeon near the Rams’ practice facility who missed out on a windfall. Still, the urge to respond the way Gurley did remains hard to resist.

Here's the entire Twitter feed from December of 2016.


View: https://twitter.com/tg3ii/status/809634094795485184?lang=en
 

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Ha. I pulled up the thread and my comment was the first one on there. IDK if twitter does that just because it's my comment. I said "I love you Todd. Keep working hard"
 

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The Guy wrote back to Todd to meet him in the Endzone. That's why Gurley was there so much last year, he was looking to kick that guys ass but he kept no showing.
 

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Pull up indeed. Watch out Todd. You'll have to go into his mom's basement to find him and I bet he's got a mean keyboard to swing. Fucking internet douchebag!
 

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Pull up indeed. Watch out Todd. You'll have to go into his mom's basement to find him and I bet he's got a mean keyboard to swing. freaking internet douchebag!

The internet ruined itself.

It should be "membership only" or something. With vetting.

Twitter and Facebook should be ashamed of the bullying they allow from the highest office in our nation to moronic middle schoolers who bully, ie and threaten.

Too bad Gurley didn't get to meet him and let him have it verbally.
 

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The internet ruined itself.

It should be "membership only" or something. With vetting.

Twitter and Facebook should be ashamed of the bullying they allow from the highest office in our nation to moronic middle schoolers who bully, ie and threaten.
Awe come on Leslie. The internet didn’t and hasn’t ruined itself. We bullied and were bullied all through school when I was a kid - AND IT GOT PERSONAL. You know this as you are of the same generation. Don’t buy into this crap.

These twats these days crying and shouting at the moon because they are offended is just fucked up.

Twitter and FB are just avenues. Granted they have many more followers than old media but seriously? Young people need to get a grip. The world is not nice and never has been. Most people are good, loving, people, but assholes are assholes. Put them behind a computer screen and they are assholes without boundaries. Meh... they’re still just assholes.
 

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Todd shouldn't have replied to this internet nobody. Waste of time with trolls...
 

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One answer to end trolling: no more anonymity. Name and address along with a picture. The only problem with that is how would it be enforced?
 

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The internet ruined itself.

It should be "membership only" or something. With vetting.

Twitter and Facebook should be ashamed of the bullying they allow from the highest office in our nation to moronic middle schoolers who bully, ie and threaten.

Too bad Gurley didn't get to meet him and let him have it verbally.
I have a feeling it wouldn't be just verbally either! lol

But this dumb ass would never have the balls to show up, so no point talking about it. Some peoples kids bruh.
 

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I'm the troll. I tweeted Todd. I'll get him one day and I'll beat his Ass!

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Awe come on Leslie. The internet didn’t and hasn’t ruined itself. We bullied and were bullied all through school when I was a kid - AND IT GOT PERSONAL. You know this as you are of the same generation. Don’t buy into this crap.

These twats these days crying and shouting at the moon because they are offended is just freaked up.

Twitter and FB are just avenues. Granted they have many more followers than old media but seriously? Young people need to get a grip. The world is not nice and never has been. Most people are good, loving, people, but assholes are assholes. Put them behind a computer screen and they are assholes without boundaries. Meh... they’re still just assholes.

The difference is that if something really terrible happened, you could change schools. We all had the space to change if we made a change...behaved differently, worked on a problem differently, relocated, etc.

Now, if something goes viral, you'd have a hard time changing countries.

the reach of social media is such that instead of having a few bullies who are in your local vicinity, a person could have literally thousands of bullies.

As far as the danger, social media has absolutely escalated that. There are been murders, assaults and a plethora of death threats that simply wouldn't have happened without social media.

It's like the difference between dealing with family at a reunion... and having that broadcast live over network TV during the Super Bowl.

Lastly, what are people supposed to do as we get people to stop self-medicating with drugs and alcohol? That's how MANY dealt with those issues, even as teenagers.

With VASTLY more inputs, potentially good and bad, almost no check on the volume or amplitude of those inputs and virtually no editing system in place (I mean, that little thing here...Think before you post...is kinda genius)... I tend to swing close to Les' outlook.

Yeah, it's always been hard, but we can't ignore that kids today aren't growing up in our time. Heck, who here didn't have a dad that thought WE were soft??? That sorta ignores the point.

Rather than tell people to toughen up, maybe we should go after the assholes who make life harder for others??? I mean, rather than just admit defeat and accept that there will always be assholes.

I dunno. I just blanche at the notion that it's okay to be an asshole, but not take issue with the asshole or their actions (not that you're saying that).

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Todd shouldn't have replied to this internet nobody. Waste of time with trolls...

Sometimes you just feel like beating the living hell outa somebody, and a piece of pure manure shows up at that very moment. :boxing::lifting::wabbit::double::shooting::seizure:
 

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Lol. I could be wrong but I’m pretty sure everyone blew this out of proportion. I think both the guy tweeting and TGIII were just talking shit. The first guy didn’t want to fight and TGIII didn’t want him to “pull up.” Who cares? Why was an article written about this? “Journalism” these days :death:
 

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Twitter and FB are just avenues.

They are avenues used for dishing out shit far too often, and I say they shouldn't be, they need to police themselves more thoroughly and stop letting people use their service to fuck with people sometimes driving them to commit suicide.

There needs to be some accountability, if nothing else the last few years have taught us that these two companies (at least, and probably many more) need to be checked.

Where/when I grew up mild teasing was about as far as it went. If someone got physical with someone else, especially if it was a larger guy picking on a smaller guy other kids stood up and shut that shit down. I got teased and goofed on about my name, but no more than that. Had someone decided to shove me around I know people would step in. I've done it and saw it done through Jr. High and High School.

I'm not saying fights didn't happen because they did happen plenty, and I got into many myself. But the actual bullying was a minor, minor issue and it usually got snuffed out by other kids. It was just not accepted.

My generation was raised with some level of respect for others. These days kids will egg the bully on and then video the attack so they can post it to their social media accounts. And then attack the kid that got bullied on his social media. All unchecked by the social media companies that should delete the videos and if a person continues they should shut down the account and ban the IP address.

I have a feeling it wouldn't be just verbally either! lol

But this dumb ass would never have the balls to show up, so no point talking about it. Some peoples kids bruh.

I doubt that Gurley would hit him but it would be funny to see him stand there and say "go ahead, slap away" while the guy cowered in fear. I can see the schmuck staring at the floor wishing he could get away like those Southwest commercials.

That might teach him a lesson.
 

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Lol. I could be wrong but I’m pretty sure everyone blew this out of proportion. I think both the guy tweeting and TGIII were just talking crap. The first guy didn’t want to fight and TGIII didn’t want him to “pull up.” Who cares? Why was an article written about this? “Journalism” these days :death:

These days with nutjobs, school shooters and terrorists running around, any threat no matter how minor it may seem should be taken seriously.