Will Joey Burrow's pro-progressive Twitter feed help him or hurt?

[Suburbia]

New NFL quarterback Joey Burrow, who is the 2019 Heisman Trophy winner, 2019 National Football Champion, No. 1 draft in 2020 NFL draft has a pretty progressive outlook on life.

In a league that blackballed Colin Kaepernick, will Burrow's stance help him or hurt him?

https://twitter.com/RzstProgramming/status/1253474064439574528

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

I don't think his twitter feed will matter for anything.

[S019]

This belongs on the off-topic board and no, it won't have any impact. Cincinnati is a swing market, trending D so liberal-leaning views aren't too unpopular. A good example of this is the Dallas Cowboys who welcomed Chris Christie and he's a big fan of them, now that isn't the reason Christie became unpopular in NJ, and ultimately, this wouldn't have an impact, people who care about sports won't care, and people that invested in politics, wouldn't care either.

[Suburbia]

Burrow is tough on those who favor ICE and Trump's immigration policies. He wants people to unfollow him on Twitter or block him if they favor caging children.

[S019]

Burrow is tough on those who favor ICE and Trump's immigration policies. He wants people to unfollow him on Twitter or block him if they favor caging children.

Again, Hamilton County is quickly becoming liberal. In Ken Blackwell's landslide loss in 2006, he won Hamilton. In fact Hamilton was the only Blackwell 2006/Cordray 2018 county in the whole state. Trump was the first Republican since Rutherford Hayes to win Ohio without winning Hamilton. 2008 was the first time since 1928 that Hamilton voted to the left of the state. It has now voted left of the state in three consecutive elections. Sprawling Cincinnati has shifted Hamilton to the left and if anything this might increase his support in this quickly trending D county.


To add onto my earlier point: In 2016, Steve Chabot won re-election by 19 points to OH-01 and barely carried the badly gerrymandered part of Hamilton County in his CD. In 2018, Chabot lost this part of Hamilton by nearly 10 points, as he won the seat by 4.

[Kingpoleon]

While in this incident it’s okay, I generally don’t think people should retweet Al Jazeera.

[Illiniwek]

Really?? My maaaaaan.

[NewYorkExpress]

I do think it'll significantly hurt Burrow if/when he becomes a free agent (at least half the leagues owners are going to refuse to offer him a contract), but for now it isn't a problem.

[Suburbia]

I do think it'll significantly hurt Burrow if/when he becomes a free agent (at least half the leagues owners are going to refuse to offer him a contract), but for now it isn't a problem.

I guess sports owners like conservative conformity......Burrow doesn't like ICE, etc.

ICE should be reformed, not abolished.

[Yellowhammer]

Sickening

[Suburbia]

Sickening

Why? Burrow can't have different thoughts?

He doesn't like ICE and so forth.

[Sestak]

No. The fact that he will be playing for the Cincinnati Bengals is what will hurt him.

[Suburbia]

No. The fact that he will be playing for the Cincinnati Bengals is what will hurt him.

Burrow will probably want to be traded to another team, but he is an Ohioan, he grew up in Athens County, a Democratic stronghold.

That shows that Democrats should contest Bill Johnson and Steve Stivers.

I wonder how Burrow feels, that his area is surrounded by crazy Trumpers. His hometown voted for Hillary, The Plains, Ohio.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/upshot/election-2016-voting-precinct-maps.html#10.48/39.352/-82.121/25436

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/13/sports/as-joe-burrow-spoke-of-hunger-his-hometown-felt-the-lift.html

[Suburbia]

At least he acknowledges his privilege and uses it for good, I suppose.

Some of his white quarterback counterparts do not, a lot of them are white conservative privileged men, like Peyton Manning.

It shows that Democrats should not take OH for granted, they are a lot of progressives in Ohio. Sherrod Brown, etc.

[S019]

No. The fact that he will be playing for the Cincinnati Bengals is what will hurt him.

Burrow will probably want to be traded to another team, but he is an Ohioan, he grew up in Athens County, a Democratic stronghold.

That shows that Democrats should contest Bill Johnson and Steve Stivers.

I wonder how Burrow feels, that his area is surrounded by crazy Trumpers. His hometown voted for Hillary, The Plains, Ohio.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/upshot/election-2016-voting-precinct-maps.html#10.48/39.352/-82.121/25436

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/13/sports/as-joe-burrow-spoke-of-hunger-his-hometown-felt-the-lift.html

Cincinatti is not a Trumpy place at all, I'm confused at what you're trying to prove here.

[Suburbia]

No. The fact that he will be playing for the Cincinnati Bengals is what will hurt him.

Burrow will probably want to be traded to another team, but he is an Ohioan, he grew up in Athens County, a Democratic stronghold.

That shows that Democrats should contest Bill Johnson and Steve Stivers.

I wonder how Burrow feels, that his area is surrounded by crazy Trumpers. His hometown voted for Hillary, The Plains, Ohio.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/upshot/election-2016-voting-precinct-maps.html#10.48/39.352/-82.121/25436

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/13/sports/as-joe-burrow-spoke-of-hunger-his-hometown-felt-the-lift.html

Cincinatti is not a Trumpy place at all, I'm confused at what you're trying to prove here.

I'm talking about his neighbors, in his hometown of Athens County, Ohio. The county his mother works in, is a poor Trumpy Appalachia county. His parents considered selling their Ohio home to move to Baton Rouge.

Heck, I wonder what the LSU fans in Baton Rouge will think. Louisiana is a conservative state, the state of Steve Scalise, Bobby Jindal and John Kennedy!

[S019]

No. The fact that he will be playing for the Cincinnati Bengals is what will hurt him.

Burrow will probably want to be traded to another team, but he is an Ohioan, he grew up in Athens County, a Democratic stronghold.

That shows that Democrats should contest Bill Johnson and Steve Stivers.

I wonder how Burrow feels, that his area is surrounded by crazy Trumpers. His hometown voted for Hillary, The Plains, Ohio.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/upshot/election-2016-voting-precinct-maps.html#10.48/39.352/-82.121/25436

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/13/sports/as-joe-burrow-spoke-of-hunger-his-hometown-felt-the-lift.html

Cincinatti is not a Trumpy place at all, I'm confused at what you're trying to prove here.

I'm talking about his neighbors, in his hometown of Athens County, Ohio. The county his mother works in, is a poor Trumpy Appalachia county. His parents considered selling their Ohio home to move to Baton Rouge.

Heck, I wonder what the LSU fans in Baton Rouge will think. Louisiana is a conservative state, the state of Steve Scalise, Bobby Jindal and John Kennedy!

Nobody in Louisiana cares about this. And by no one, I mean literally no one.

[DINGO Joe]

No. The fact that he will be playing for the Cincinnati Bengals is what will hurt him.

More specifically, the lack of an offensive line.

[Suburbia]

Burrow spoke out about the Floyd police murder.

He seems very pissed with this.

It's not gonna help with the Jerry Jones, etc of the world, when he is a free agent.

Tiger Droppings, a LSU fansite website, is making fun of him right now.

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/bengals-joe-burrow-black-community-needs-our-help-george-floyd-death

https://www.tmz.com/2020/05/29/joe-burrow-george-floyd-nfl-bengals-black-community-help/

https://twitter.com/Joe_Burrow10/status/1266404689203146754

https://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/politics/lsus-golden-child-jumps-on-the-race-baiting-bandwagon/90197921/

[Suburbia]

I'm surprised that Burrow's activism isn't making news in the NFL.....for a white quarterback, he is pretty bold for saying that Floyd's death and police brutality is a human rights violation for America.....I wonder if any owners may be dismayed.

[Orwell]

Joe Burrow continues to be one of my favorite players in the NFL from this class truly stand up guy. Hopefully, he is like Heath Shuler in the future (other than the major bust part)

[Progressive Pessimist]

This will help Trump's poll numbers next week.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

If bronz is also an active poster on Tiger Droppings, I might just lose it (in a good way). I haven't seen anyone who posts quite like him over there, but it would be an absolute treasure to see content about Milville, NJ and Long Island on a forum that hates Yankees so much.

[Kung Fu Kenny]

1. His name is Joe, not Joey, you friggin dork
2. Good for him. He seems to have a good head on his shoulders and I hope he continues to push these ideas forward during his career
3. You know exactly why Colin Kaepernick was blackballed

[Suburbia]

1. His name is Joe, not Joey, you friggin dork
2. Good for him. He seems to have a good head on his shoulders and I hope he continues to push these ideas forward during his career
3. You know exactly why Colin Kaepernick was blackballed

Joey, Joe, whatever.

I know that the Joneses probably crossed him off the list. The Cowboys would want Burrow, he is seen as a better player than Dak Prescott.