Did you know you can order a Domino’s pizza simply by tweeting the pizza emoji? Well, the New York Jets’ rookie quarterback Bryce Petty recently found out about this and shared his excitement on Twitter.
What Petty didn’t realize is that he’d really, really upset Jets fans, most of whom live in the New York and New Jersey areas and take pizza very seriously.
Naturally, fans began to publicly shame him:
Once Petty realized how much damage he’d done, he crafted an apology:
In the end, though, Petty realized that the controversy could have been worse:
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