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South Carolina Newspaper Prints Insensitive Headline About QB Ryan Hilinski After Loss
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After South Carolina QB Ryan Hilinski's poor outing against Missouri on Saturday, going 13-for-30 for only 166 yards and walking away with a 34-14 loss, The State Newspaper wrote a rather insensitive headline about him. Per The Big Lead...
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Ryan Hilinski has had far, far worse days in his life, such as January 16, 2018, the day his older brother, Tyler, committed suicide. It was later revealed that Tyler suffered from stage one chronic traumatic encephalopathy. The Hilinski family later started the charity Hilinski's Hope, dedicated to destigmatizing mental illness.
Here was the headline after Saturday's game...

The paper later apologized...
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1975 months
More over-played "bear witness as I testify to my outrage"
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UGATiger2675 months
I'm no fan of today's outrage culture, but that was an unbelievably classless and tasteless thing to print. I have no idea how anyone could've thought that would be something fit to print in a newspaper. There is such a thing as righteous anger. In this particular case, I would completely understand if this made Ryan and his family upset.
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kywildcatfanone75 months
Wow, that's pretty insensitive, and worthy of a little outrage.
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KANDUUU75 months
Gits to tip toe around the feelz in today's sensitive environment. If this family can't see it as non-malicious, and a use of proper words for a headline space, then they are over sensitive. And if he turns out to keep doing had, and not just a random bad day, the usce will have trouble benching him, so he doesn't get his feelings hurt. Keep babying your kids, and you'll be doing it for their whole lives.
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KANDUUU75 months
*Gots to...
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Darla Hood75 months
You're an a-hole. I hope that doesn't hurt your feelings.
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Brummy75 months
When you get done sharing your wisdom here, maybe you can go make fun of some kids with cancer, then tell them that life's tough and to stop being such sensitive pussies about it. I'm sure they'll appreciate what you did for them.
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drdoct75 months
That's pretty sh!tty even for the media. I wouldn't even expect that out of the rant. Some things are above athletics or trivial things.
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Cobb Dawg75 months
What do you expect from South Carolina.
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JustinT3775 months
Expect better than that.
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BowDownToLSU75 months
Tasteless
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The Torch75 months
Some dumb arse millennial was patting himself on the back when he came up with that clever headline - FAIL
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Buckeye Jeaux75 months
"The State Newspaper" thinks a tiny tweet makes up for a full-page horrifically unkind blunder?
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PensaTigers75 months
Wasn't even heartfelt.
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KennabraTiger75 months
Who the frick thought this would be a good idea?
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loopback75 months
Anyone who's not a SJW, liberal, tard, count can realize that the headline has absolutely nothing to do with the Charity and everything to do with him having a bad game. I swear, the world we live in is dying, outrage everywhere has taken over common sense. The article is about a football game ONLY, it's quite possible that the writer didn't even see the connection to the charity because they were focused on the football game and Hilinski's poor performance. People these days need more to do, go out and make the world a better place instead of sitting around waiting for some random connection in the headlines to bitch about.
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StupidBinder75 months
Yeah, because whenever a player has a bad outing, it’s a coming saying to say that the player’s “hope sank”. Totally makes sense. Pointing our unnecessary dickishness isn’t outrage. Sound like you’re just looking for reasons to be outraged yourself, but I’m sure that take makes me a world-ending-SJW-liberal-tard amirite?
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imjustafatkid75 months
Nah man. This was classless.
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loopback75 months
If you cant use common sense and realize it was an innocent mistake and not intentional. Then yes, it absolutely does. You can't prove it was done intentionally and why would there be reason to? There are SO much bigger things in life to get your panties in a twist over.
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Play_Neck75 months
That paper should make a big-arse donation to back up its "sorry" tweet.
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PensaTigers75 months
Too bad they likely did it for publicity.
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Vestigial Morgan75 months
Up there with "chink in the armor" headline about Jeremy Linn.
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ForeverEllisHugh75 months
That one was a hilarious play on words. This one is actually demented.
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NASA_ISS_Tiger75 months
That's the problem with today's media...printed or otherwise...they believe they are infallible and print whatever "gotcha" type headline they want without regard humans. And no, I'm no SJW, libtard etc. I hate the media for what they can get away with...and this is just another example of it...and people essentially can not retaliate against them.
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wilceaux75 months
Unless you're the Saudi government.
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LSUSaints75 months
He knew the connection when he wrote it.
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uway75 months
Why is everyone so sure of this?
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jdutto375 months
"Why is everyone so sure of this?" So, why male models? (Zoolander)
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WhoDatNC75 months
What a cock!
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DVinBR75 months
Should have made a insensitive headline about the Athletic Director for hiring Muschamp
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Mike da Tigah75 months
That’s pretty much awful journalism.
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SpartyGator75 months
That's terrible. They should be ashamed
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paleoTiger75 months
The headline shouldn't have been used. What's more egregious is the quote from the story. Why would the writer bring up the hardship of his personal, family tragedy in a story about his poor performance in a game? The two have nothing to do with one another. Can't believe it made it past the editor's desk.
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Tigah Jr75 months
The NYT is taking notes.
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