Cleveland Browns defensive back Damarious Randall is more popular than he must have realized. A simple tweet Randall posted got completely out of hand.
Randall offered to buy everyone who retweeted his tweet a jersey, if the Cleveland Cavaliers win the NBA Finals.
Now that Randall finds he would have to spend a fortune to keep his promise, he is speaking up.
Damarious Randall, with a smile on his face: "No. I didn't think the tweet would go as viral as it did."
"Honestly, my phone freezes every time I go on twitter."
— Andrew Siciliano (@AndrewSiciliano) May 30, 2018
Damarious Randall says he's surprised by the 761,000 retweets: "I didn't it would get over a hundred, to be honest."
— Andrew Siciliano (@AndrewSiciliano) May 30, 2018
Randall’s offer to the general public was so popular that Fanatics owner Michael Rubin offered to give Randall the jerseys at wholesale. This would save him literally millions of dollars.
At the time of Rubin’s offer on Tuesday, Randall’s tweet had been retweeted over 400,000 times. Now the tweet has circulated over 700,000 times.
Even with a wholesale discount, this many jerseys would rack up quite a bill. And Randall shouldn’t look to his head coach for any help here, either.
Hue Jackson, asked if he would help @RandallTime buy jerseys if the Cavaliers win:
"I'm not paying one dime! I'm done with saying anything!"— Andrew Siciliano (@AndrewSiciliano) May 30, 2018
We assume that Randall takes his time to rethink his tweets before pushing the send button in the future.
For what it is worth, Game 1 of the NBA Finals kicks off on Thursday at Golden State. And, we must wonder if Randall intends to keep his promise as the playoffs progress.