The NFL’s offseason wheeling and dealing is in full force, and the Houston Texans and Arizona Cardinals have jumped out in front of the current pigskin musings with a trade that involved wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins and running back David Johnson.
What would have been a head-scratcher of a deal had the sports world not been locked in a room with the entire family fighting over the mobile devices and television remote has now intensified from a ‘topical depression’ into a social media hurricane.
It began with the Cardinals’ Patrick Peterson crafting a near-perfect tweet, summarizing the magnitude of the deal without going over the 140-character limit:
From there, the good, the bad, and the insightful thoughts and reactions (the memes) from around the sports world landed in the Twitter cosmos.
Of course, there is this guy…
And this guy…
The best Faux Account take goes to:
Was this 2017 snippet from NFL Films a precursor to today’s news?
How will this deal play out? That remains to been, as usual. But this tweet from SportsCenter does paint (or, probably burn into the minds of the Texans fan base) what was lost and gained:
