Curtis Lofton, Chris Chamberlain, David Hawthorne. Get the message, Jonathan Vilma?
— Peter King (@SI_PeterKing) April 3, 2012
Peter King pointed out that the New Orleans Saints are likely preparing for life without Jonathan Vilma by signing a number of linebackers. When Mr. Vilma saw what King was tweeting, he took it as a personal attack and fired back.
“@SI_PeterKing: Curtis Lofton, Chris Chamberlain, David Hawthorne. Get the message, Jonathan Vilma?”that u know how to type peoples names??
— Jonathan Vilma (@JonVilma51) April 3, 2012
@SI_PeterKing reckless journalism is beneath you sir. You've become a glorified blogger
— Jonathan Vilma (@JonVilma51) April 3, 2012
King then tried to calm things down a bit by telling everyone to blame the NFL for the investigation, not just some “glorified blogger.”
RT @MarshMoseley: You are better than this, peter. No need to single out Vilma … I didn't. The NFL did.
— Peter King (@SI_PeterKing) April 4, 2012
RT @JonVilma51: Reckless journalism is beneath you sir. You've become a glorified blogger … It's the NFL investigation, Jonathan. Not me.
— Peter King (@SI_PeterKing) April 4, 2012
Vilma, however, wasn’t quite done tweeting…
@SI_PeterKing the nfl investigation has NOTHING to do with ur tweet. You've now turned into a blogger who takes shots at players on twitter
— Jonathan Vilma (@JonVilma51) April 4, 2012
@SI_PeterKing not going to go back and forth with you, enjoy your night sir.
— Jonathan Vilma (@JonVilma51) April 4, 2012
The NFL and NFLPA are hoping to have a ruling soon on how to punish individual players for the roles they played in bountygate. Vilma is one of the players expected to have the harshest penalty.
Read more: http://twitchy.com/2012/04/03/peter-king-and-jonathan-vilma-exchange-hateful-tweets/