Cardinals Delete Viral Tweet Towards Broncos After Backlash

The Arizona Cardinals enjoyed a wild 18-17 win over the Denver Broncos to begin preseason festivities.

It was a game where the Cardinals overcame a double digit deficit at halftime despite not playing a handful of key starters while Denver played theirs. Most notably, the Broncos kept their first team offense in for nearly the entire first half.

After allowing a touchdown with less than two minutes to go, it was David Blough who took the field for Arizona and marched the Cardinals on a ten-play, 75-yard drive to score a touchdown with just two seconds left.

Arizona running back Emari Demercado punched in a two-point conversion to seal the first win of the Jonathan Gannon era.

this on repeat 🔁

📺 #DENvsAZ on KPNX pic.twitter.com/SPKsyjDVbI
— Arizona Cardinals (@AZCardinals) August 12, 2023

After the win, the Cardinals' social media team (who does a pretty good job of keeping up with modern times/memes) tweeted a video of the famous "not real" woman on a plane before the camera pans over to Russell Wilson working out in the middle of the walkway.

After gaining over four million views - and quite the backlash - it was eventually deleted this morning.

After more 4.8 million views, the @Cardinals have deleted the Russell Wilson trolling video.

Wonder who forced them to delete it?https://t.co/IVwWRymfoL

More here:https://t.co/kMPuJLkLGm pic.twitter.com/0gDuSVA3TJ
— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) August 12, 2023

While we thought it was funny, it apparently was not to others outside of the desert.

Congrats on your 4th quarter comeback and 1 point victory with 3rd stringers in preseason game 1. Totally warrants flaming the opposing team’s QB when you were down 10-0 at the half to him. This is pathetic. You know you won’t have many chances this season so fire em off now huh? https://t.co/WFwifuMrIm
— Mitchell Schwartz (@MitchSchwartz71) August 12, 2023

Mile High Huddle's Chad Jensen called the tweet "embarrassing" among other adjectives.

"This MEME is frankly embarrassing to the Cardinals. It would be just as cowardly and classless had it been sent after a regular-season game that counted. The fact that the Cardinals aimed low at Wilson on the heels of a meaningless preseason game is quite shameful and embarrassing. It reveals a vacuum of leadership and class within that organization," said Jensen.