Former Green Bay Packer TE Brandon Bostick, says that he received multiple death threats after his botched onside kick in the NFC Championship game against the Seattle Seahawks. Bostick who was a front line player on the “hands” team, went against his assignment of blocking the opposing Seattle player, which would have allowed for Pro-Bowl receiver Jordy Nelson the chance to make the catch. The Packers nation appears to have scapegoated Bostick for his admitted egregious error, but fail to point out the 8 other factors that led to them blowing a 13 point lead with 2 minutes left.
“I messed up in the NFC Championship Game, and trust me, it hurts,” he wrote. “I’ll probably think about my role in the botched onside kick every day for the rest of my life. It haunts me like a recurring nightmare.” In the tight end’s account of the play his mind “went blank” when he saw the ball floating towards him and he forgot merely to perform his assignment.
It didn’t just stop with Brandon admitting his own mistake, and the rest of the world moving on. Brandon elaborated further on how the classless fans treated him on social media following the game.
“Social media didn’t help, either,” he wrote. “I don’t know how many death threats I received, but there have been a lot. I still haven’t read most of the messages that people sent me, but I want to so I can deal with the consequences and use it as motivation. But it is physically impossible for me to read every troll’s comment; the volume is simply too much. So their comments sit there, untouched, maybe forever.
h/t Around the NFL