Longtime NBC Sports analyst Mike Milbury is now on social media.
“Ready to defend myself in the Twittersphere,” Milbury wrote, while threateningly holding a shoe over his head. “Let’s have some fun!”
Ready to defend myself in the Twittersphere. Let's have some fun! pic.twitter.com/zOf9v7Vk45
— Mike Milbury (@realmikemilbury) May 27, 2020
Milbury’s bio reads “Official Twitter account of Mike Milbury | NHL Analyst @NBCSports | 100% Organic.”
I am now immediately skeptical it will be 100 percent organic.
The photo Milbury tweeted is in reference to The Shoe Incident from 1979 when several Bruins went into the crowd at Madison Square Garden. Milbury ripped off a fan’s penny loafer and hit him with it.
He later added this opinion about restarting the season.
Screw the virus! Props to @NHL for crafting a new start. Maybe we should think twice about booing the Commish when the trophy gets handed out.
— Mike Milbury (@realmikemilbury) May 27, 2020
Milbury, of course, has long been a controversial figure on NBC and in the past, he has said some not so nice things about Alex Ovechkin.
See here.
And here.
Here too.
And oh yeah here too.
And here.
Ovechkin responded in 2013 saying, “I think Milbury just doesn’t like Russians.”
Eventually, Milbury changed his tune during the Capitals’ Stanley Cup run in 2018. For example, see this May 2018 Washington Post story entitled Mike Milbury can’t stop gushing about Alex Ovechkin: ‘You can’t say enough about him’ and this December 2018 RMNB story entitled Mike Milbury thinks Alex Ovechkin is ‘the best goal scorer that ever laced on a pair of skates’. That’s more like it.
So far, Milbury has over 5,000-plus followers since his first tweet. Now excuse me while I go ask him what it was like to coach Alan May.
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