First, the Twitter battle:
If you’ve been active on Twitter the past two days, you may have scrolled across a debate taking place between some high-profile athletes.
What’s the debate topic, you ask?
Which state has better high school football players, Georgia or Texas?
You can see a summary of the Twitter war here
This dispute began when Hardman, who attended Elbert County High School in Georgia, replied to Tampa Bay Bucs wide receiver Mike Evans’ (who is from Texas) tweet about Texas football being the best in the country.
From there, things got wild. Dez Bryant got in on it. As did Nick Chubb and Patrick Mahomes.
Eagles cornerback Darius Slay, Seahawks safety Quandre Diggs, Redskins’ Landon Collins and Georgia wide receiver Lawrence Cager all said their piece as well.
Matthew Boling vs Mecole Hardman:
Regarding a Texas vs Georgia all-star team, Nick Chubb tweeted that he would “run through anybody from Texas.” (Maybe the most trash talking Chubb’s ever done)
Mecole’s response is as follows:
Mecole’s tweet caught the eye of current Georgia track star Matthew Boling, who ran a wind-aided 9.98 second time in the 100-meter dash – an all-time all-conditions record.
Boling may be a Georgia Bulldog, but he hails from Houston, Texas and had to get in on the battle.
Boling responded to Mecole’s tweet with a simple cap emoji. For those who are a little out of touch with the current slang, cap apparently means that someone is lying. So, in simpler terms, Boling said that Mecole was lying about being able to outrun anybody from Texas.
That’s when Mecole, referencing Boling’s 9.98 second time in the 100-meter dash, told Boling that his speed would not translate to the football field.
Boling heard Mecole’s rebuttal and requested a race in the 100 meter dash.
Mecole wasted no time, and within an hour the two had agreed to what would be an epic showdown.
Sadly, it’ll never happen. But how incredible would it be if the two Georgia Bulldogs actually did pull off this race? That would be a quarantine classic.
