Geno Smith appeared to join Kyrie Irving in embracing flat Earth conspiracies, and the internet went nuts
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- Geno Smith appeared to embrace flat Earth theories in a series of tweets on Saturday.
- Smith took time to retweet arguments from both sides of the debate, encouraging people to question the "truths" laid before them.
- In the end, Smith walked back his original comments slightly, claiming that the tweets were all in the name of starting conversation.
Geno Smith made news on Saturday before the NFL offseason could even start, but it had nothing to do with his future in football.
The New York Giants quarterback, like Kyrie Irving before him, appeared to embrace flat Earth theories in a series of tweets, asking his followers not to believe everything that they read and do their own research before rushing to judgment.
The conversation was, likely to Smith's dismay, less than good, with many Twitter users predictably dunking on him.
But Smith was not immediately deterred - he thought it was a bit "funny" that people assumed he believed the Earth was flat just because he had suggested as much.
In an effort to hear both sides of the non-argument, Smith retweeted messages from both those that had proof that the Earth was round, as well as skeptics who said they had gotten good grades on a college paper one time.
But eventually, Smith relented, claiming that he was simply trying to encourage people to listen to others "truths."
Still, he teased the NFL Twitterverse with one more shot before logging off.
I been studying this whole flat earth vs globe thing... and I think I may be with Kyrie on this... b4 you judge do some HW but what do you guys think?
- Geno (@GenoSmith3) February 24, 2018
I'm not debating on this topic I just want to see the responses.. I think it's a good conversation.
- Geno (@GenoSmith3) February 24, 2018
Geno Smith's accuracy on the shape of the earth rivals that of his accuracy throwing a football and I appreciate him so much for it
- Jonny Loquasto (@JQuasto) February 24, 2018
Somebody has to send Geno Smith into concussion protocol pic.twitter.com/MH7Cg7T2Sh
- Laces Out (@LacesOutShow) February 24, 2018
I couldn't begin to imagine why Geno Smith was trending on this fine Saturday. The reason was more delightful than I could have ever hoped.
- Patrick Daugherty (@RotoPat) February 24, 2018
I find it funny how you all assume I believe Earth is flat lol I just think you guys should have an open mind because as we know a lot of the "truths" that we thought were true actually aren't βοΈ
- Geno (@GenoSmith3) February 24, 2018
I worked at JPL. One of my jobs was working on code to slice up data about the oceans coming from Earth-observing satellites. No oceanographers or other Earth scientists could do their jobs if we all were lying about the Earth's proper shape.
- Jake Hamby (@jhamby) February 24, 2018
Gotta A+ last year on a research paper about the flat Earth. Sounds crazy, but the facts will blow your mind! https://t.co/b27neFZRx1
- Coy Van Tilburg (@CVan_Tilburg) February 24, 2018
Hey guys I'm glad we had this talk today it was fun lol I know how you all love to debate on Twitter so this was good... for the record Earth is a globe we know this. But why not listen to someone else's beliefs or "truth"
- Geno (@GenoSmith3) February 24, 2018
But From now on you can consider me a "Flat Earther" β
- Geno (@GenoSmith3) February 24, 2018
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