Another Twitter Rant from an Athlete

When will sports figures ever learn? Jose Enrique, a Newcastle United defender, has been find over $100,000 for his insults of his team on twitter. Even worse, he directed his rant directly at the team’s owner. Sure, he had a point with what he said but as an athlete you have to uphold yourself to certain standards.

This case brings up a buried point that needs to be entrenched in every single athletes’ mind. As an athlete, you are under public scrutiny constantly. Whatever an athlete or even a celebrity does can potentially cost somebody else thousands of millions of dollars.

Unfortunately, Enrique is going to take the same hit in his wallet that so many other athletes have had to endure. Twitter is a great way for athletes to connect with fans and with each other. However, until athletes understand that they should only be using twitter for that reason, we will probably still see more and more of these fines.