Raven’s Brendon Ayanbadejo kicks off Baltimore-New England trash talk with Twitter rants

Gamedayr | January 14, 2013 at 9:59 am | 1 Comment

Baltimore Ravens linebacker and special teams star Brendon Ayanbadejo (51) has opened up the war of words with the New England Patriots with a Twitter rant for the ages. (Eric P. Mull-USA TODAY Sports)

New England does some suspect stuff on offense. Can’t really respect it. Comparable to a cheap shot b4 a fight

— Brendon Ayanbadejo (@brendon310) January 13, 2013

Brendon Ayanbadejo is a special teams’ monster who finds his way onto the football field at times as a linebacker. Thus, he may not be playing defense all too often when Tom Brady is out there directing yet another in a decade’s worth of elite offensive units for New England.

But the fact that he won’t be playing all that much against Brady and Co. has not stopped him from getting the trash talking started. In fact, what might be considered as ‘smack talk’ by some might just be seen as a full-on rant by others.

Are you watching the game pats vs texans? If so you see the hurry snap offense catch em b4 they set up. It’s a gimmick.

— Brendon Ayanbadejo (@brendon310) January 13, 2013

But wait, there’s more — it only takes a second to break something off in 140 characters or less.

You know the same organization that did spygate and cut a guy the day b4 the Super Bowl

— Brendon Ayanbadejo (@brendon310) January 13, 2013

He was referring to Tiquan Underwood, who was, indeed, cut the day before the Super Bowl against the New York Giants. While not generally a widely accepted practice, the organization at least paid the man his title game bonus. That was an extra $44,000 after the Pats lost — not a bad way to spend a day sitting on the couch, but obviously Underwood would have liked to have at least been on the sidelines.

But wait, there’s more — one assumes the Ravens organization would have loved to have seen Ayanbadejo shut his virtual pie-hole at some point, but the smack talk (or word vomit depending on your point of view) just kept on coming.

In a sport that is predicated on mano y mano, ” lets hurry up n snap it ” = bitchassness

— Brendon Ayanbadejo (@brendon310) January 13, 2013

Next weekend, Ayanbadejo will have all the opportunities in the world to go “mano y mano” with the best and most successful AFC organization in a long time.

As long as he and his teammates hurry up and get to the line of scrimmage, that is.