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'Twitter thugs' wanted to fight Seahawks' Cliff Avril after Tony Romo injury

Tony Romo isn't mad at the Seahawks defender whose hit will ultimately cause Romo to miss a significant portion of the 2016 NFL season. Some of Romo's fans are a whole different story.

Seattle defensive end Cliff Avril says he was harassed by "Twitter thugs" after his hit on the Cowboys quarterback resulted in a compression fracture of the L1 vertebrae.

"It finally died down the last day or two but it was a good six straight days," Avril said, via the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. "I got a couple of hundred mentions, people talking reckless.