{"id":1822352,"date":"2023-01-24T14:50:52","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T19:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1822352"},"modified":"2023-01-24T14:53:57","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T19:53:57","slug":"how-crain-cos-david-cone-sparked-a-football-firestorm-by-tweeting-about-his-wifes-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-crain-cos-david-cone-sparked-a-football-firestorm-by-tweeting-about-his-wifes-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"How Crain &amp; Co\u2019s David Cone Sparked A Football Firestorm By Tweeting About His Wife\u2019s Dad"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhow-crain-cos-david-cone-sparked-a-football-firestorm-by-tweeting-about-his-wifes-dad%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1822352&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>David Cone was just trying to stay on his father-in-law\u2019s good side when he ignited a Twitter firestorm between the Crimson Tide and Sooner nations.<\/p>\n<p>Cone, co-host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Wire<\/a>\u2019s popular sports podcast, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/show\/crain-and-company\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crain &#038; Company<\/a>On Saturday, Twitter noted that Jalen HUTS, Philadelphia Eagles&#8217; quarterback, had just led his team against the New York Giants to victory. This was the first time since Richard Todd that a former Alabama signal-caller has won an NFL playoff match. Todd was a 1976 New York Jets first-round selection. He helped his team win two playoff games in 1982.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was only trying to put in a plug for my father-in-law,\u201d Cone, who played quarterback at the University of Michigan before marrying Todd\u2019s daughter, Darbi Lou in 2019.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QdQ8TDPr9O\">https:\/\/t.co\/QdQ8TDPr9O<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Cone (@davidadamcone) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidadamcone\/status\/1617935409069326339?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 24, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The tweet attracted 8.2million views, many passionate comments and even newspaper articles, from Tuscaloosa, to Norman.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with Cone\u2019s innocent observation is that Oklahoma fans consider Hurts theirs. That\u2019s because the current toast of the City of Brotherly Love had an unconventional collegiate career that saw him star as a freshman starter at Alabama and return as Nick Saban\u2019s field general the next year, but then lose the starting job as a junior to Tua Tagovailoa despite a 26-2 record. Hurts, who was already a graduate, transferred to Oklahoma for his senior year. He led the Sooners to College Football Playoffs and finished second in Heisman Trophy voting. He was then selected by the Eagles in round two of the 2020 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Calling Hurts an Alabama product ticked off fans down where the wind goes sweepin\u2019 down the plains.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBenched and set aside by Bama,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hanghalfa100\/status\/1617321324950716417?s=20&#038;t=qKl2WNlz--9lInHsYdgWbw\">tweeted S. Powers<\/a>, whose Twitter account features a photo from legendary Oklahoma coach Barry Switzer. \u201cClaimed by Bama. Typical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cone accidentally started the multi-state melee even sports media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlabama Fans Have Launched A Very Odd Campaign Trying To Claim Jalen Hurts After Benching Him And Forcing Him To Transfer,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/barstoolsports\/status\/1617697449975357441?s=20&#038;t=qKl2WNlz--9lInHsYdgWbw\">read a tweet from Barstool Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cone, who took on critics in one his Crain &#038; Company interviews \u201cGet Off My Lawn\u201d Segments, however, did not back down and stated that players moving to other schools is becoming more common than ever. Schools will also be fighting for which athletes they should adopt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never said Jalen Hurts didn\u2019t play at Oklahoma, or \u2018claim\u2019 him as more of a Tide quarterback than a Sooner,\u201d Cone stated. \u201cHe had a great season at OU, and got drafted from there. If someone tweeted that Jalen Hurts was the first Oklahoma quarterback to win an NFL playoff game since [former Sooner] Baker Mayfield, I wouldn\u2019t have thought twice about it, because it would have been a statement of fact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Todd, who had taken 264 sacks during his decade-long career as a pro, seemed content to escape Twitter&#8217;s wrath.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just glad those 8 million people didn\u2019t pile on me,\u201d The former NFL star laughed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Cone was just trying to stay on his father-in-law\u2019s good side when he ignited a Twitter firestorm between the Crimson Tide and Sooner nations. Cone, a co-host of The Daily Wire\u2019s popular sports podcast, Crain &amp; Company, noted Saturday on Twitter that Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts, who had just led his team to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":1822355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[16279,16277,16281,13346,4044,16280,5541,16278,15629,13092],"class_list":["post-1822352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-cos","tag-cone","tag-crain","tag-dad","tag-david","tag-firestorm","tag-football","tag-sparked","tag-tweeting","tag-wifes"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1822352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1822355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1822352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1822352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1822352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}