Pittsburgh Steelers tight end Vance McDonald embarrassed Tampa Bay Buccaneers safety Chris Conte with a stiff arm that sent Conte to the ground on a 75-yard touchdown Monday night. It was an amazing play, and a very embarrassing one for Conte.
After the play, many folks on Twitter mocked and trashed Conte, and some even @’d Conte on Twitter (which is absolutely awful; people really, really need to stop doing this).
Well, some of those people attacked the *wrong* Chris Conte on Twitter.
Chris Conte, a reporter for NewsChannel 5 in Nashville, tweeted, “IT’S HAPPENING AGAIN. Can someone tell me how FOOTBALL player Chris Conte just screwed up? #wrongconte,” and included a screencap of people tweeting at him.
IT’S HAPPENING AGAIN. Can someone tell me how FOOTBALL player Chris Conte just screwed up? #wrongconte pic.twitter.com/KkvNPiWoSx
— Chris Conte (@chrisconte) September 25, 2018
And more tweets from Conte the reporter:
More of the current #wrongconte tweets currently coming in … pic.twitter.com/EboS1haOEv
— Chris Conte (@chrisconte) September 25, 2018
I kind of missed these tweets. Friendly reminder, I do NOT play football. #wrongconte pic.twitter.com/4JWdcfjyHp
— Chris Conte (@chrisconte) September 25, 2018
I can’t. #wrongconte pic.twitter.com/Ji1ZwZSUrF
— Chris Conte (@chrisconte) September 25, 2018
All of this. #wrongconte pic.twitter.com/2pXq4eTVlk
— Chris Conte (@chrisconte) September 25, 2018
I’ll just leave this right here …. #wrongconte pic.twitter.com/k4nouns7S5
— Chris Conte (@chrisconte) September 25, 2018
As Conte alluded to in his initial tweet, this has happened before. Like in 2013, when the football-playing Conte was blamed by Chicago Bears fans for a heartbreaking Week 17 loss — that decided the NFC North — against the Green Bay Packers. Many Bears fans sent angry tweets to Conte the reporter, and he at least got over 100 new followers out of it. Hopefully he’ll get a follower boost this time around as well.