FSU Football: Writer posts odd anti-FSU tweet after Miami alum’s car crash

FSU fans have been generally supportive after the horrific news of Kendrick Norton’s crash, but one writer in South Florida trolled the Noles oddly after it.

While there has been a deep seeded dislike for decades between the athletic teams for both the FSU Seminoles and the rival Miami Hurricanes – especially when it comes to the big sports like football and baseball – there tends to be much more of a respect in place between the schools than between each program and, let us say, the Florida Gators for example.

When something bad strikes the programs, there tends to be a level of concern in place – such as what took place early Thursday morning when former Miami defensive tackle Kendrick Norton suffered what would safely be called a career ending injury in a rollover car crash in Northwest Miami-Dade County.

NBC station WTVJ-TV in Miami gave details about what took place:

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"Florida Highway Patrol officials said the crash took place just before 1:30 a.m. Thursday in the area of State Road 836 and 826 near Miami. For unknown reasons, the Ford F250 driven by Norton collided with a concrete barrier and overturned.Norton’s agent, Malki Kawa, tweeted that the second year player’s arm was amputated while asking for fans to continue praying for him and his family."

The horrific event was a time in which former FSU football players sent out their best wishes and prayers for a recovery for Norton on social media – and one writer from the South Flordia Sun-Sentinel took a moment to post what could be called an odd tweet for the situation.

David Furones, who covers teams like the Miami Heat and Florida Atlantic University for the paper but graduated from UM, thought it would be the right time to bring up the fact that Norton was the man who played FSU quarterback James Blackman’s leg like a guitar during the 2017 game between the teams.

Now, I’m not saying that Furones posted the photo to troll FSU or anything because I do believe he is a professional and isn’t the only person who posted it online – but he is, so far, the only member of the media in South Florida who actually thought it was appropriate to post it right after Norton’s arm was amputated in a horrific car crash.

We here constant talk about how younger college athletes need to think before they post something on social media – and this might be an example of why everyone should follow that lesson.