Popular ESPN host Scott Van Pelt is sorry.
After another heartbreaking Giants loss on Sunday, Van Pelt took to X/Twitter to blast quarterback Russell Wilson.
“Mr. Limited,” Van Pelt wrote, mocking Wilson’s alter ego, “Mr. Unlimited.”
In his podcast, “SVPod” with Stanford Steve on Thursday, Van Pelt walked back his tweet
“During the Giant game, at the end of it, I sent out a tweet about Russell Wilson, I said, ‘Mr. Limited.’ That was mean,” Van Pelt said, via YouTube. “Don’t do sh*t like that. I don’t send out snarky tweets. That was small. We shouldn’t do that. That’s not the way to act. Don’t be a d*ck on Twitter and that’s what that was.”
After Giants rookie Jaxson Dart (concussion protocol) was pulled from Sunday’s game against the Bears, Wilson entered the game and went 3 of 7 for 45 yards.
After going 0-3 and 69 for 119 passing for a career-low 58% completion percentage with three touchdowns and three interceptions, this season, it’s clear that GM Joe Schoen’s signing of the 36-year-old Wilson was a terrible move.
Regardless of his performance this season, Wilson still has a strong following. Van Pelt learned that the hard way.
“But it was fascinating to find out there is a Russell hive out there that came for my head and told me I was a bald b*tch,” Van Pelt continued. “But it was just wild that this group activated out of nowhere … it was just wild to see. It seems like bot-activated activity. I don’t know how that works, but it was fascinating to find out that there were folks that were ready to come for my head as if the last four years of Russell Wilson is all a made-up thing … sending out that tweet, that’s just small and dumb, and I don’t aspire to do small dumb things.”
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