Did Rick Reilly steal a joke from PFT Commenter?
Rick Reilly made a pretty clever joke about Peyton Manning on Twitter during Sunday’s Denver Broncos-Indianapolis Colts game, but was it original? The person who tweeted it just minutes before Reilly doesn’t seem to think so.
At 5:54 p.m., the Twitter-famous @PFTCommenter cracked the following joke:
Mannings so good at overthrows maybe we shoud send him to pay a visit 2 ISIS
— PFTCommenter (@PFTCommenter) January 11, 2015
By pure coincidence I’m sure, Reilly sent an almost identical tweet exactly five minutes later.
When he's done here Manning should go to the Middle East. They could use a few overthrows.
— Rick Reilly (@ReillyRick) January 11, 2015
Like most people, @PFTCommenter had trouble believing that Reilly came up with that on his own.
so i did the math and based on his current salary, Rielly owes me $73k for that tweet
— PFTCommenter (@PFTCommenter) January 11, 2015
That looked like a classic case of Twitter parroting. We know how much Reilly enjoys comparing sports to world affairs in his tweets, so it’s no surprise he pounced all over that one.
H/T Dan Rubenstein
