Pete Carroll keeps cool on Twitter.
Being from Alabama, it's easy to think being a successful football coach means being as hard-nosed and singularly-focused as Nick Saban. After all, love him or hate him, he is probably the most recognizable person in the state.
Thankfully, the Internet and Pete Carroll have reminded me that it can be done differently. While Saban is busy verbally abusing anyone within a 10-foot radius, Carroll is on a different kind of mission: to get Will Ferrell to join Twitter.
The USC football coach has been tweeting since Inauguration Day, using his social media prowess to welcome our new President, show some love for the Trojans' other athletic programs, and now to entice fellow celebs to embrace social media. It started with this tweet:
"Had dinner with
Will Ferrell last night... he's not on Twitter... that must change...
Join the campaign to turn him into a tweeter!"
Amusing on its face, but Carroll wouldn't leave a good idea unexplored. He was determined to use his new-found tweeple (Twitter people) to convince Will that the Tweeting bandwagon had room for one more big, hairy, American winning machine.
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Let's campaign to get Will Ferrell on Twitter! Email: [email protected] and I'll pass it along to him."
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