Eli Apple helps make entertaining of Stefon Diggs and Bills on Twitter, seems to mock Damar Hamlin

The Cincinnati Bengals upset the apple cart at Highmark Stadium, dismantling the Charges and their Tremendous Bowl aspirations.

Then Eli Apple turned rotten.

Apple, a Bengals cornerback who relishes the villain purpose, derided Expenses large receiver Stefon Diggs in a tweet on Monday evening. It may perhaps have included a veiled shot at Damar Hamlin.

Diggs, who hadn’t publicly spoken considering that the Payments ended up bounced from the playoffs, fired off 3 tweets in a two-moment span:

• “Want me to be okay with shedding ? Nah.”

• “Want me to be okay with our degree of participate in when it’s not up to the conventional ? Nah”

• “It is quick to criticize my reaction a lot more than the outcome.”

“Cancun on 3,” Apple estimate-tweeted, along with an emoji building heart palms, which has been Damar Hamlin’s signature salute as the soccer earth has rallied about him. Hamlin wears No. 3 and “Participate in for 3” emerged as the Bills’ motto but the Cancun expressing has been a preferred sports insult.

Apple failed to halt poking fun at Diggs and the Payments there. He sent more than 20 retweets, which include: a screengrab of a Payments fan offering him the middle finger movies portraying Josh Allen a fake in large online games who could not set up much more than 10 factors a video clip implying Diggs and Allen are rubbish a meme ridiculing Diggs for observing opposing groups celebrate making pleasurable of Allen and Diggs’ mystery handshake a clip from the sport of Apple gesturing whilst Diggs was on a knee getting tended to by trainers an animation of Apple slapping cutouts of the heads of Josh Allen, Gabe Davis, Stefon Diggs, Sean McDermott and a Buffalo wing.

“Somebody get them in couples remedy,” Apple tweeted above a online video of a visibly annoyed Diggs on the sideline late in the 27-10 reduction to the Bengals. “I am going to pay on God.” Apple tagged Allen and Diggs in the tweet.

The CBS broadcast showed a demonstrative Diggs speaking in the direction of Allen and a Expenditures personnel member late in the sport. Allen hardly ever seemed up from his tablet on the bench.

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Diggs obtained criticism for darting out of Highmark Stadium straight away following the defeat. Exercise squad functioning back Duke Johnson chased down Diggs, who still left the locker place in advance of head mentor Sean McDermott tackled the crew, and persuaded the star extensive receiver to briefly return. Diggs was not accessible to the media on Sunday or Monday.

“He’s discouraged like we all are,” McDermott instructed reporters on locker cleanout working day. “He was in right now. He and I spoke, and I’ll leave it at that.” McDermott lauded Diggs’ competitiveness and enthusiasm that the staff loves.

Apple knocked down a pass in the stop zone as the Payments went for it on fourth-and-6 from their 20-yard line midway as a result of the fourth quarter. He celebrated by jogging alongside the Payments sideline wagging a finger and then continued gesticulating, dancing, and lifting his arms to bask in the victory. A admirer video clip on Twitter confirmed Apple doing snow angels, crawling in the snow and pointing finger guns at Payments supporters. He threw snowballs at the crowd in another video.

Apple done postgame interviews leaning against a wall and smoking a cigar in the locker room.

“We are just the greatest,” Apple claimed.

Hamlin attended the divisional spherical recreation with his mother and young brother considerably less than three months right after heading into cardiac arrest and currently being resuscitated on the industry in Cincinnati. The coronary heart palms ended up incorporated in practically all of his Twitter and Instagram posts amid his restoration from healthcare facility beds in Cincinnati and Buffalo.

Costs players honored Hamlin with No. 3 patches on their jerseys and hats, and repeatedly cupped their fingers into a coronary heart condition to rejoice touchdowns in their 1st activity following Hamlin’s health-related emergency. Hamlin’s coronary heart-condition signal is pervasive in Buffalo, appearing on ice sculptures, murals, and T-shirts.

Cincinnati quarterback Joe Burrow by now rankled Bills lovers in a postgame interview and subsequent Instagram publish.

“Better send all those refunds,” Burrow advised Tracy Wolfson, a barb referring to the league offering a lot more than 50,000 tickets to Buffalo and Kansas Town period-ticket holders for a opportunity Charges-Chiefs neutral-site AFC Championship activity in Atlanta. The NFL experienced ticket presales for every potential web site past week. His two-phrase Instagram caption explained “Uninvited Friends”. The Bengals’ official account joined in with a “Make sure y’all get that refund” tweet.

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What is the ‘Cancun on 3’ indicating?

The “Cancun on three” origin dates again to Los Angeles Lakers guard Nick Van Exel in 1998 but the saying’s rebirth began as a back again-and-forth in between NBA players Patrick Beverley and Damian Lillard in 2020.

The Portland Path Blazers and Los Angeles Clippers performed in a seeding match within the NBA Bubble. Lillard went to the totally free-toss line with the Blazers trailing by 1 level with 18 seconds still left. He missed both equally no cost throws and the Trail Blazers lost. Beverly and Clippers teammate Marcus Morris jumped up and down, laughed, higher-fived, mocked Lillard’s “Dame Time” celebration and rolled on the scorers desk to troll Lillard. Beverley commented “Cancun on 3” on Instagram to show Lillard’s year was around and he was despatched packing on an early vacation.

The joke was on Beverley. The Path Blazers squeaked into the playoffs. They have been eliminated in the 1st spherical but the Clippers, who ended up considered to be title contenders, blew a 3-1 collection lead and had been upset in the second round.

“@patbev21 I guess I should really prolong this Cancun invite considering the fact that I have not designed my preparations nonetheless,” Lillard clapped again at Beverley on Twitter.

Beverley was a great sport.

“I see y’all in the Instagram remarks conversing about Cancun on 3,” Beverley laughed through an Instagram Reside. “You know I’m a authentic a person. It truly is so humorous. I recognize it. I be listening to y’all. That s—‘s humorous, man. That is a superior just one, though. I bought to just take it on the chin. I are unable to even be mad. That’s what takes place. If you might be throwing them out, you received to be able to choose them, too.”

This all began when Nick Van Exel shed his position with the Lakers immediately after joking about Cancun. On a few. Los Angeles trailed the Utah Jazz 3- in the 1998 Western Meeting Finals sequence. The crew huddled at the conclusion of observe right before Sport 4. Van Exel yelled “1-2-3 Cancun” rather of “1-2-3 Lakers”.

Los Angeles was swept by Utah and Van Exel, who was an All-Star that year, was traded to the Denver Nuggets.

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