Former Packers tight end received death threats after his fumble in Championship Game
Brandon Bostick was released by the Packers, but the young man had to endure a lot more than that after the biggest game of his life. In an interview Brandon Bostick did with Monday Morning Quarterback SI.com, he stated that he received death threats from fans.
Former Green Bay Packers tight end Brandon Bostick said he received death threats after he botched the onside kick recovery in the NFC Championship Game against the Seattle Seahawks and that a former NFL player who went through something similar has helped him deal with it.
“I knew it was a key mistake that cost us a trip to the Super Bowl,” Bostick wrote in a first-person account for The MMQB website. “But, with all due respect, I think the media kind of took it and ran with it. I became the singular scapegoat. Social media didn’t help, either.
“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.”
Some fans go a little too far, and this is horrible. Hopefully he will be able to rebound after the incident.
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