The Seattle Seahawks were riding high on Monday, after an improbable NFC championship game comeback win over the Green Bay Packers the day before, but social media critics knocked them down a peg or two after a questionable tweet.
The Seahawks chose to observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day by tweeting out a photo of quarterback Russell Wilson crying after the win with an inspirational quote from King, the civil rights leader. Comparing winning a football game to all of the hardship King suffered through as he fought for peace and harmony is not the best idea, to say the least. To make it laughably worse, the Seahawks included "We shall overcome" on the original tweet. Not surprisingly, the tweet was deleted very soon after it was posted.
Of course, people captured the image before it was deleted:
The Seahawks will probably think twice about future holiday tweets after this faux pas.
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