Instagram Blows up on 9/11 post

In his newest movie, Entourage, actor Adrian Grenier has received a lot of publicity and fame for the film. This past week on his Instagram account, he received a lot of scrutiny and insults, due to his posted picture in remembrance of the 9/11 attacks on the United States. The post read the following: "R.I.P the 2,996 Americans who died in 9/11," the graphic said below an image of the Twin Towers. "R.I.P the 1,455,590 innocent Iraqis who died during the U.S. invasion for something they didn't do." The post caused quite the uproar and had some graphic comments left that aren't appropriate for this post. "Disrespectful!! You are a horrible American!!" a follower commented. The article that was written about Grenier's post said that he deleted the post, but as social media and news has taught us so many times, whatever you put out there, it can always be found and retraced. A post like that on a day of infamy and solace is something that in my opinion, deserves an apology, and he has not yet given a response to the post besides deleting it. If we put our real-time marketing hats on for a second, we can tell that this is a bad move on Grenier's part for not responding to "crisis". His image is definitely in danger, at least it is in the U.S. Social media is tearing him apart for that post and it should be interesting to see how he responds to it all, if even does end up responding. 

Luck O' The Irish strikes again!

For the second week in a row, my Fighting Irish of Notre Dame have pulled off another remarkable victory. I know these consecutive posts may be tedious, but it is highlight of my weekend because of how the win occurred.  The Irish had played a pretty great game up to the third quarter. Then the crap hit the fan. Starting quarterback Malik Zaire went down with a broken left ankle and the Irish had to put in redshirt freshman, DeShone Kizer. I wanted to turn the TV off right then and there, because last week the starting running back tore his ACL and is out for the season, so now it seemed like our season was in for the worst. But the luck of the Irish had come around once again and the Notre Dame found themselves in a tie game on the road. The freshman Kizer, dropped back and found Will Fuller down the field to deliver a perfect pass and put the Irish up 34-27 with only 7 seconds left in the game. Notre Dame definitely escaped Virginia with a win, but under the circumstances that they played under, I can't help but be proud of my Irish. Every week, ND plays a top 5 conference opponent and they've done that for as long as they have been around, so to see them compete like that with their team captain out for the season was very "Ohio State like" of them. 

Notre Dame was the only team of my 3 favorite football teams to win this weekend. When a football game makes me jump out of my seat and start hooting and hollering, then it is a successful weekend in my book.