What on earth was this?
There’s a lot of hype going on in Austin for the Texas Longhorns‘ 2023 college football season. With head coach Steve Sarkisian about to enter his third year, quarterback Quinn Ewers — now healthy — bulking up during the offseason and 15 starters coming back to the team, there’s a lot of optimism among Texas’ base that the Longhorns can do big things.
Everything seems to be going well for the program overall, but you know how it goes … “There’s always gotta be one.”
Insert Texas‘ social media team.
Earlier in June, the official Twitter account of Texas Longhorns football posted a video showing several players in the locker room … dancing? … to “Tweakin’ Together” by BKTHERULA. And with no context attached to it whatsoever, it just made for an absolutely bizarre moment for social media users.
WATCH:
Was this posted on accident? 🧐 I’m confused.. pic.twitter.com/1tLdORbcOY
— CFB MZ 🌵 (@CFB_Memezone) June 14, 2023
The video was deleted less than 24 hours later.
To provide the context Texas didn’t, the clip is actually from a TikTok video wide receiver Casey Cain posted back in March, being a part of a trend going on at that time where participants have to dance while being sassy.
@caseycain1k Juat a lil zest #xybca #fypシ #foryou #viral #texasrelays ♬ Tweakin’ Together
Look, I get it. We all make mistakes, but come on, man.
And now I wanna know what exactly happened here. This video is from back in March — three months ago — how did it all of a sudden get posted in June? Was somebody doing the equivalent of a “butt dial” while on Twitter? Did somebody’s kid publish the video by accident? (RELATED: Jordan Love Wishes Bears ‘Happy Father’s Day’ In Attempted Trash Talk, Accidentally Implies Chicago Is His Daddy)
I have questions, and a lot of them.
Regardless, how embarrassing for Texas (though fun for the kids in the original video, that was great).