PFT has often written about the potential risks of Twitter for players. It's inevitable that some players will forget it's a public forum and write things that will get them in trouble.
Larry Johnson will now be the poster boy for such problems.
We told you about Johnson's comments Sunday night, when he took shots at his coach Todd Haley. Johnson compared his father's football career playing for a legendary youth coach and then briefly playing in the NFL to Haley, who played golf and then "nuthn."
Not content to rest after that, Johnson then responded to a Twitter follower that reminded Johnson of the incident last year in which Johnson allegedly spit a drink into a woman's face. L.J. used a three-letter homophobic epithet to get his point...
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