Bud Grant joins Twitter before second garage sale

May 7, 2015 at 3:41AM
FILE - In this Jan. 22, 2015, file photo, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady smiles at a news conference about the NFL investigation of deflated footballs, in Foxborough, Mass. An NFL investigation has found that New England Patriots employees likely deflated footballs and that quarterback Tom Brady was "at least generally aware" of the rules violations. The 243-page report released Wednesday, May 6, 2015, said league investigators found no evidence that coach Bill Belichick and team man
FILE - In this Jan. 22, 2015, file photo, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady smiles at a news conference about the NFL investigation of deflated footballs, in Foxborough, Mass. An NFL investigation has found that New England Patriots employees likely deflated footballs and that quarterback Tom Brady was "at least generally aware" of the rules violations. The 243-page report released Wednesday, May 6, 2015, said league investigators found no evidence that coach Bill Belichick and team management knew of the practice. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File) (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

"Bud Grant is on Twitter" is the kind of sentence that starts to lose meaning if you say it enough times. There are words and phrases like that — where you keep repeating them to the point that you don't know what they mean or even question if they are words.

Once you get past the "old guy on Twitter" curiosity, maybe this shouldn't seem strange. The site has more than 200 million active users. And it can't be a coincidence that the account (@HPBudGrant) launched a couple of weeks before another Grant garage sale — the follow-up to a hugely successful event around the same time last year.

hot takes No matter what you think about Tom Brady and the Patriots, be comforted in knowing there is someone with an opinion 10 times crazier.

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Barcelona's Lionel Messi reacts after winning 3-0 during the Champions League semifinal first leg soccer match between Barcelona and Bayern Munich at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday, May 6, 2015. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
Barcelona's Lionel Messi reacts after winning 3-0 during the Champions League semifinal first leg soccer match between Barcelona and Bayern Munich at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday, May 6, 2015. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez) (The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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