Roddy White is known for holding nothing back when it comes to sports talk on Twitter but one particular tweet cost him big time. White predicted that Duke would win the NCAA tournament championship and one fan, Dylan Hoyt responded that they would be upset by the Mercer Bears. White was so confident that wouldn’t happen he made a bet and promised Hoyt Atlanta Falcons season tickets, first row right on the 50-yard line. Well the unthinkable happened, Duke lost to Mercer in the first round and White backtracked.
NFL: Roddy White Explains Why He Didn’t Give Fan Falcons Season Tickets After Losing March Madness Bet
(Video) March Madness: Mercer Players Style On Duke With Nae-Nae Dance After Huge Win
Some people might take this as being disrespectful by doing it on the court, but the way the kids from Mercer are feeling today you can’t tell them nothing, nor should you. They just pulled off the biggest win in school history and hit the nae-nae like they were in the club.
March Madness: Upset Alert! Huge Underdog Mercer University Takes Down Duke 78-71
Everyone’s brackets are now officially destroyed. But this is why you have to love March Madness. #14 seed Mercer defeated #3 Duke 78-71 just a short time ago to pull off the biggest upset of the tournament so far. Mercer was a huge underdog, but with a bunch of seniors on the team who knew how to stick together, they outworked and outplayed the younger top recruits that Duke had. The last time Mercer even made the tournament was back in 1985 and not a single player on the team was born yet. Maybe Mercer stole a little magic from the Florida Gulf Coast team that made headlines last year in the tournament after being huge underdogs and beating a couple nationally ranked teams. Mercer had to beat that same team last week for the right to get in the NCAA tournament. They may very well lose the next game they play but nobody will ever be able to take away the feeling they have right now after that win.
