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If you scroll through NFL Insider Adam Schefter’s Twitter feed, you’ll be hard-pressed to find anything not pertaining to NFL football. Football is literally his entire job, which is why he’s been able to get scoops father than Baskin-Robbins.
It’s safe to assume that Schefty knows as much about any other major sport as Andy Reid knows about veganism.
In the run-up to the NFL Draft on Thursday night, an excited Mr. Schefter tweeted a sentence he never in a million years thought he’d have to apologize for.
For the first time in what feels like forever, a real live sporting event.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) April 24, 2020
Tisk, tisk, Adam.
You, a football specialist by trade, forgot about the WNBA Draft a week ago.
The tweet prompted a piece from DeArbea Walker of Deadspin titled, Misogyny Was Taken Early In The First Round Of The NFL Draft, blasting Schefty for failing to recognize a six-year high in WNBA Draft ratings averaging 387,000 viewers on ESPN, up 59% from last year. Deadspin live-tweeted the NFL Draft picks, but did not do so for its lady counterparts.
Others shamed Schefty for his inadvertent undermining of women’s sports.
The WNBA draft was less than a week ago
— (heaven hill) (@heav_tyc) April 24, 2020
The WNBA Draft was six days ago…
— AJ McCord (@AJ_McCord) April 24, 2020
.@WNBA draft was 7 days ago . It was the most-watched WNBA Draft in 16 years and the second most-watched in ESPN’s history. The draft averaged 387,000 viewers on ESPN, up 123 percent over the 2019 Draft, and up 33 percent from the last time it aired on the network in 2011.🤷🏽♀️ pic.twitter.com/hPCmIO1AOk
— Dorothy J. Gentry (@DorothyJGentry) April 24, 2020
Ummm…idiot pic.twitter.com/lajf5u8Boy
— The Starkman (@Starkman55) April 24, 2020
#WNBADraft pic.twitter.com/YDWhsC64Dg
— The Sky Show CHI (@TheSkyShowCHI) April 24, 2020
Schefty, once again a football guy, received so much backlash that he issued an apology to those pretended to watch the WNBA Draft.
My apooigies to anyone who was offended. Was caught up in the moment of the NFL Draft and forgot about the WNBA Draft from last Friday night. Sorry.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) April 24, 2020
The damage to the WNBA Schefty dished out here pales in comparison to this one clip from Family Guy.
Good lord.