NFL STAR GETS DEATH THREATS

Athletes are targets everywhere they go. New York Giants running back Brandon Jacobs tweeted a picture of death threats he received, reportedly while sitting out the team’s first victory of the season Monday night against the Minnesota Vikings. (Note: We blacked out a racial slur in the tweets.)This is serious business, even if the Twitter user @DMMeBoo claimed he was kidding. The matter has been turned over to NFL Security. NFL players such as Matt Schaub, Roddy White, Ray Rice and Chris Johnson have been victims to Twitter harassment recently, but a death threat — real or not — takes the madness to a different level. The issuer of the threat, listed as “Andre Raynor” on his profile page, followed Monday night’s tweets with a series of all-caps apologies Tuesday morning, asking for Jacobs to re-tweet those to his followers. Raynor’s account was deactivated later on Tuesday. Another Twitter user named “Eric White” also fired a rant at Jacobs, apparently upset that his fantasy team suffered with White out of the lineup… @gatorboyrb next time tell us you’re not playing before I have to set my lineup #ilostbecauseofyou #droppingyou #pussy — Eric White (@_EricWhite) October 22, 2013 Jacobs fired back with this…Twitter can be an ugly place, and Jacobs has every right to be angry. What do you think?