Adam Schefter Stole My Story

My name is DeQwan Young and I am the founder of Good If It Goes. I created this website due to the lack in parity of mid-level sports blog sites. Yes, you know about Deadspin and Barstool Sports, even BSO (kinda).  My reasoning for starting this website isn’t different than most other websites. While some claim they want to focus on the black side of sports, or look at the lighter side of sports, I can say I just love sports. I wanted to have an outlet where I could discuss minor league sports, or point out something funny or ironic from a fans perspective; but Adam Schefter, stole my story and refused to credit me as a source.

Ladies and gentleman of the jury, I present Exhibit A:

I Broke the Tebow to Eagles Workout

Here we have me breaking my Tim Tebow story. Let me give you a little bit of background on who I am…I play minor league indoor football, I know very few people in the NFL, and I don’t have too many connections. I received this tip on March 16th, and proceeded to “break” the story. It generated very little interest on my timeline, aside from a few followers.

I had a few people questioning who I was and if the story had validity; which is something that should occur when a no-name random person breaks a story on Twitter. I do not have a massive following, I did not work for any major news network, and at the time I had no way to post the story to goodifitgoes.com as I was on the road. So I broke the news the only way I knew how, through tweets.

Therefore, I present to you Exhibit B:

The most logical thing that I could think of at the moment, I sent the tweet to the great Adam Schefter. I used to admire the work that Adam Schefter did at ESPN, until I realized he had no journalistic integrity and used his position at ESPN to crush dreams.

Exhibit C:

“Well how about this:” This hack job just tweeted this like he stumbled upon the story by mistake. That “sources” shit that you see in tweets and other sports stories from ESPN personalities, are blatant cover-ups.  It shows their inability to get a scoop on their own, report it in a timely fashion, and be credible.

ESPN TRASH

Chris Broussard inaccurately reported a story that had Mark Cuban driving around, crying on the telephone looking for Deandre Jordan. This company employs so many nincompoops, that they’ve become an unfunny parody of themselves. Everything I loved about ESPN in the 90’s is gone (R.I.P. Stuart Scott).

There were people telling me that “Schefter doesn’t have to give you credit” or “You’re a nobody”, which admittedly so, I am a nobody. This could’ve been something that changed my life, or given me a leg up on something I enjoy. The gift and the curse of social media these days stem from originality. Everyday I wake up and see duplicate parody accounts, I see stolen tweets and a ton of misinformation. It would have cost you nothing to CITE (see I can get it right) me as a source for a story that I hand delivered to you on a silver platter.

GUILTY

What’s even funnier is the “block” button to my personal account, which in this day and age is an admission of guilt in the court of public opinion. So Adam (IF THAT’S EVEN YOUR REAL NAME), if you are reading this, I want an apology. I don’t care if it’s public, private, by plane, train, or automobile. You’re going to apologize because you aren’t the piece of shit that this story paints of you.

Please send all hate tweets and grammar corrections to @YoungQwan on Twitter

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