Hack!

Some clown was having some fun with the Houston Texans yesterday. The Twitter account @TexansVoice belonging to Marc Vandermeer, the Texans director of broadcasting, was hacked at about 8:10 pm with the message, "Texans have traded Matt Schaub to Cleveland Browns for WR Josh Gordon and a 3rd round pick in the 2014 NFL Draft." It doesn't take long for something like this to spread, everywhere. I discovered the news on a Minnesota Vikings message board. The source checked out so it seemed up to snuff. The trade made absolutely no sense to me. The Texans would be out of their minds to do this trade. The hacking clown was obviously preying on the anger that many Texans fans were likely feeling toward Schaub. The quarterback had basically gifted last week's game to the Seattle Seahawks when he lobbed a pass in the flat to cornerback Richard Sherman instead of a player from his own team. It was a terrible decision. There's never a good time for a terrible decision but Schaub found the worst time to make a terrible decision. This terrible decision was apparently enough for some clown to wrongly tell the world that the Texans had made an even worse decision. The Browns new need for a quarterback as well as their apparent willingness to trade young, talented football players was apparently enough to fool some people. I'm not sure why anyone would, for a second, think that the Texans would give up on Schaub because of his terrible decision. Even NFL insiders Albert Breer and Ian Rapoport were chasing this fake story. Fortunately, the Houton Chronicle's John McClain was on top of it all. He was quick to set things right. The "real" Marc Vandermeer was also quick to say that his Twitter account was hacked. About 15 minutes after the "funny" tweet went public, @TexansVoice tweeted, "I've been hacked. No trade. Sorry for the craziness."

I just don't get these clowns that use their terrific computer skills to go so far as to hack someone's Twitter and then not be clever in their use of that account. Why would anyone go through so much and come up with a trade that is so stupid. If you're going to be stupid at least go big. Trade Schaub to Cleveland for the Joes. Haden AND Thomas.