‘Elon Is a Real F*ckhead’: NFL Community Fumes About Musk’s X Going Down During Massive Day of Football News

The NFL community was left in an uproar after X/Twitter suffered a major outage right when free agency for the league began.

Monday at 10 a.m. marked the unofficial start of free agency. Though teams were permitted to speak to players and negotiate contracts, contracts couldn’t be signed until Wednesday, March 12. During what is known as the “legal tampering period,” major moves across the league could still be announced as teams and players agree to terms before the official signing period.

Unfortunately for X users, the excitement of the first day of free agency was compromised by the platform going through rolling outages throughout most of the morning.

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It was just fans who were left in the dark. For years, X has been a useful tool for teams, players and agents to get real-time updates on the free agent market. According to NFL Network’s Mike Garafolo, they were also in the dark as a result of the outage.

“I also have a bunch of, like, agents and team types are hitting us up like, ‘What are you guys doing?’ Garafolo said during the network’s coverage of free agency. “Like, because they follow this stuff just as much as we do. So when X goes down, they’re operating without a net here. They have no idea where to find all this stuff; so that’s what we’re working on right now, trying to figure out how to communicate to one another — kind of like we did 10 years ago.”

X owner Elon Musk claimed Monday that the outage was an attack from a “large, coordinated group and/or a country.”

Watch above via NFL Network