I’m not a football fan myself but I believe that all active NFL players have a baseline of fame that is higher than most Olympic athletes. Nobody cares about trapshooting. The Chicago Tribune wrote that tweet the way they did rather than writing nothing at all. This trapshooter’s thin association with the NFL barely made the story interesting enough for someone at the paper to tap out a lazy tweet.
I am sure that if the situation were reversed (Husband of woman who has a position in super famous organization but is not that well known herself wins third place in ultra obscure Olympic sport that the majority of the planet doesn’t even know exists) the treatment of the story would have been largely the same.
I don’t often think of Olympic Archery but when I do, I think about Geena Davis. Why? Because one year it was widely reported that Geena Davis almost qualified for the Olympic team. Geena Davis is the only name of either gender that I associate with Olympic archery. This isn’t because I have anything against male archers.
