Former Washington football star Shaq Thompson, who finds himself with the Carolina Panthers for Super Bowl 50, expresses regret for his profane rant on social media against Seahawks fans.
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A reporter asked Carolina’s Shaq Thompson at Monday’s Super Bowl media day, if he knew what he was doing four years earlier, to the day.
“No idea,’’ shrugged Thompson.
The reporter showed him a cellphone picture of Thompson signing a letter of intent to play for the Huskies. A few days earlier, on Jan. 30, 2012, Thompson had shocked the football world by shunning Cal, the school to which he had verbally committed, as well as Oregon and UCLA, among others, by sending out this tweet at 10:05 in the evening:
“Just committed to the UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON.