Emerson Rhudy doesn’t even remember writing the tweet.
Nevertheless, it appeared on her timeline the morning before UNC’s ACC Tournament game against Duke on March 10. Rhudy was in Georgia for a job interview. She would be watching a UNC-Duke game by herself for maybe the first time ever, and she was a ball of nerves. The tweet was almost a nervous tic, she reckons.
“I’ll get the ceiling is the roof tattooed on my body if we win this year’s national championship,” it reads. “I’m not kidding.”
That head-scratcher of a phrase had become a rallying cry among fans after Michael Jordan used it in a speech he gave at halftime during UNC’s home game against Duke this past season.