'Shut Up' Correction: Chiefs Mathieu Didn't Say That To TV Host

'Shut Up' Correction: Chiefs Mathieu Didn't Say That To TV Host

DALLAS - Over the weekend, I accidentally bumped into a tweet from the reprehensible Skip Bayless, suggesting that the Kansas City Chiefs were "too full of themselves'' to succeed in Super Bowl LIV.

. @Mathieu_Era shows what happens in a REAL (non-scripted on TV) debate with @RealSkipBayless pic.twitter.com/gdRv5WR1w7

— fishsports ✭ (@fishsports) February 1, 2020

Skip's FS1 prediction was wrong. But so was my decision to involve Chiefs star Tyrann Mathieu and a tweet "from him'' that he has now explained was the result of photoshopping.

So now we know that Tyrann didn't actually tweet that - to Bayless, anyway - as he clarified on Twitter. ... part of a wacky thread that eventually even involved former NFL standout Shawne Merriman. ...

I never said that. That pic is photoshopped. https://t.co/pBG4qgDwRn

— Tyrann Mathieu (@Mathieu_Era) February 4, 2020

Yes, the specific "Shut up'' tweet was photoshopped and attached to Bayless' take. So what we're left with is me being hoaxed by a photoshop and Mathieu being involuntarily drawn into a fight, leading me to issue my apologies for the error.