Lolo Jones Challenged a Paralyzed Football Player to a Race on Twitter Tonight

Big oops.

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Uhhhhhhh…Lolo? We love you and all. And, we're sure that this was just an honest mistake. But, this wasn't a very smart thing to say on Twitter earlier tonight:

Get Checked for a concussion. Clearly, u've been hit in the head...Cos u arnt beating a track athlete RT @ericlegrand52: want to race me?
Great I'm gonna get murdered for that tweet. When I had no clue who that dude was.Just responding to any athlete who challenges me to a race
No, dnt know. sry dont know every football player. He challenged me 2 a race & I responded RT @finae25: u know he's a quadrapalegic now?
Well at least one person understands. 20K more will send hate tweetsRT @cheedelt: u didn't know. No harm no foul. He'll take it in stride
Exactly RT @marweea: I do understand u too. His profile doesn’t say “former” blah, blah... it seems as if he was still an active player!!
Thx.Getting trashed by tons of ppl glad ur not one of em RT @ericlegrand52: didnt take it personal,understand where ur coming from.All good

For those of you who haven't figured it out yet, the "Eric LeGrand" Lolo tweeted is the same Eric LeGrand who was paralyzed from the neck down during a Rutgers game a few years back (he also signed a deal with the Buccaneers earlier this year). She's trying to claim she had no idea who he was when he sent her a tweet. But, it'd probably be best for her to just apologize ASAP and move on instead of trying to explain herself. Because, although he hit her up and said he didn't take what she said personal, she's getting killed on Twitter right now for it.

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