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Everybody's Heard About The Bird
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Best prank ever? Okay, so, you may remember Hugh Douglas from his days with the Jets and Eagles, and you may know that, after a stint at WIP in Philly, he went on to be an ESPN football commentator, which he is now (for the moment, anyway; see second link). Anyway, you may also know that the Philadelphia sports community has some very funny people in it, like Zoo with Roy and FanSince09 and Danger Guerrero and many others who use Twitter quite well. Anyway, one of those guys, known as Cranekicker, once decided to mess with Hugh by tweeting the question "hey is it true that your nickname was The Turbo Bird?" Of course, it wasn't, but the more Douglas objected, the more people picked up on it and started to tweet it at him. And then it infected his Wikipedia and Pro Football Reference pages, and now ESPN's SportsNation tweeted it. He still hates it. It wasn't his nickname. IT IS NOW. Awesome. Considering his alleged battle with ESPN colleague Michael Smith at the NABJ conference in Orlando, perhaps the nickname will be a welcome distraction. (CBSPhilly.com; ESPN)
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