Kristi Yamaguchi Telling Nancy Kerrigan To "Break A Leg" Is An All Time Tweet
We here on the world wide web like to think that we’ve seen all forms of Twitter in their highs and their lows. There’s Black Twitter which is clearly the favorite for funniest Twitter. There’s Hockey Twitter which is clearly the favorite for “everybody just shut the fuck up Twitter”. There’s basketball twitter, Bachelor twitter, weird twitter, you name it twitter. Yet here we are. March 23rd, 2017. 3 days after the original tweet was sent. And we’re just finding out that Figure Skating Twitter goes hard. Who knew? Nobody. That’s who. But now we have Kristi Yamaguchi dropping zingers from the clouds and I’ve never been more interested in figure skating twitter.
Which brings me to my next point…. It is a crime against humanity that the Nancy Kerrigan/Tonya Harding situation didn’t go down in the age of social media. Just imagine something like this going down today.
I am over here BEGGING for another situation like this to go down soon. It would be, for the lack of a term that isn’t already played out, bananas. I’m sure the reaction of the incident at the time was wild. I wouldn’t remember because I was only 2 but I’m sure it was headline news all over the place. But imagine being able to watch that all unfold in real time on twitter and all other forms of social media. You want to talk about memes? Nancy Kerrigan’s “why why why” is the original meme and you schoolyard punks better recognize. The blog game needs another incident like this. 2 of the top competitors in their field going so hard that one of their ex-husbands decides to hire a hit man to break the other’s leg. What are the biggest non-sports sports stories we have today instead? A bunch of overpaid wide receivers partying on a boat in Miami. I’m sorry but that’s not news. Some figure skater almost getting her leg chopped in half? That’s news. And it’s selfish of everybody in the figure skating community today to not give us that same level of entertainment that those in the 90s received.
Sidenote: Blades of Glory is an A+ movie. Should have won an Oscar or 7.