On Saturday, July 6, a homophobic tweet was sent out from 21-year-old Dallas Stars forward, Tyler Seguin. The tweet, posted at 8:38pm by @TylerSeguin92 said "Only steers and queers in Texas, and I'm not a cow."
Tyler Seguin posts Gay Tweet
As the post started getting attention and Seguin quickly deleted the post, claiming another hack.
Twitter hacking has to stop. My apologies
— Tyler Seguin (@tylerseguin92) July 7, 2013
Seguin was recently traded from the Boston Bruins to the Dallas Stars. Rumours have surfaced that he was traded because of his off ice behaviour, mainly involving his party habits. It got so bad that during the team's recent Stanley Cup run, the Bruins had to hire a guard to monitor Seguin after ordering him to live in a hotel.
The attention quickly moved to Patrick Burke, the President of the You Can Play Project, an organization working to end homophobia in sports. Burke was quick to support Seguin's claim.
It's obviously his moron "friends" grabbing his phone and projecting their stupidity all over his public reputation.
— Patrick Burke (@BurkieYCP) July 7, 2013
Take this as you will, but Seguin needs to learn to put a password on his phone. Hockey doesn't have room for scandal like this and teams won't be excited to work with a player who's friends have the maturity of fourteen-year-olds.
UPDATE: Seguin has announced that he will be taking some time off Twitter. Here's his statement.
After repeated attempts by "hackers" to try to damage my reputation I have decided to shut down my twitter account for a while.
— Tyler Seguin (@tylerseguin92) July 7, 2013
Probably a good idea.
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