SportsCenter gave us the weirdest World Cup tweet and it hasn’t even began but

With rumors about Twitter’s upcoming demise making the rounds, ESPN determined to go full “Leeroy Jenkins” by posting and later deleting arguably the weirdest World Cup-related tweet you will notice this yr. It could solely have been on-line for about half-hour, however that was sufficient time to burn itself into our reminiscence now and eternally.

By way of its @SportsCenter account, the self-declared world-wide chief in sports activities posted this:

Excellent. 10/10. No complaints right here.

Let’s check out that all-star squad, although.

Patrick Mahomes, Saquon Barkley and Odell Beckham Jr.: Three NFL gamers whose job it’s to throw, carry and catch the ball. , with their arms. The World Cup referees would most likely not be too keen on them doing that.

Auston Matthews, Patrick Kane: Two hockey gamers. Taking part in soccer in Qatar would most likely be the precise reverse of what they’re often doing for a dwelling.

Mike Trout, Mookie Betts: Not going to lie, Mookie Betts simply looks like a man who is perhaps good at soccer. Each he and Mike Trout can be out of their aspect, nonetheless, as a result of kicking a ball could be very a lot not what’s being finished within the sport of baseball.

Kevin Durant, Bam Adebayo, LeBron James, Steph Curry: They made Adebayo the purpose keeper right here as a result of he can play protection, proper? That’s obtained to be the rationale. Additionally, shoutout LeBron James, who for some motive has been made captain of this extraordinarily unusual workforce.

Additionally, and I do know that’s not the purpose, however why did they provide Adebayo the skinniest legs ever? And why does Mahomes apparently not have any shoulders? And why does it seem Mookie Betts’ head will roll off any second now?

WHAT IS GOING ON?!?

We don’t know that. What we do know is that we lastly have a successor to this legendary Bleacher Report tweet from just a few years in the past:

And for that, kudos, SportsCenter. Kudos.

Oh, and to get again to the “Think about these American stars suiting up on this yr’s World Cup ” for one second: a soccer match goes for 90 minutes so they’d lose each recreation roughly a 100-0, if we’re being conservative for a second.