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Indy Colts Goof Again, This Time on Facebook
March 21, 2010 | No Comments
The Indianapolis Colts have goofed again.
A month after bumbling their way to defeat against the underdog New Orleans Saints in the Super Bowl, the AFC Champion Colts took some shots from their online fans Saturday after goofing up big-time on Facebook.
This morning, the Colts began flooding the newsfeeds of their Facebook fans with posts from February about pre-Super Bowl activity. More than 50 of the outdated posts rolled in by late this afternoon.
The blitz ended this evening, marked by two messages from the Colts. One included an apology and a vague description of the problem, and another stated (accurately) that the goof was fixed.
Thus spake the fans
Reactions ranged from amused to ticked off.
“Please quit posting stuff every five minutes and taking up my whole homepage feed!!!!!,” hollered Kevin Brock of Monrovia, Ind.
Joked Michael Wallace of Cincinnati: “Appparently, the Colts have just announced that with the 1st pick of the 1998 NFL Draft they have selected Peyton Manning, QB from U. of Tennesssee. So much for the information age.”
Reflecting a stronger team spirit, Heather Harlan of Kingsport, Tenn., cheered, “i still love the colts!!!!!!!!”
What’s in an API?
In this first message from the Colts, the team appears to blame Facebook.
An API (application programming interface) is basically a way for a program to accomplish some task, usually through an alphanumeric API key. The reference to “a change” in the Facebook API that activates the feed of Colts news to its fans is hard to understand.
Here’s the Colts’ second message:
Now the word is that the API got stuck last month, then made up all of its lost ground today. The old posts really were done at this point.
Taking bull rush to a whole new level
As a long-time Colts fan, I don’t agree with all the criticism levied at the Facebook page caretakers.
Those guys should get a shot to replace Dwight Freeney and Robert Mathis on the defensive line. If we had any kind of rush like that in Super Bowl XLIV, we’d have the Lombardi Trophy on our Facebook profile.
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