1. Jameis Winson took this photo at his NFL Draft party. You might have seen it online.
Here’s why Jameis Winston took that crab legs photo — and why he deleted it
Jameis celebrated being No. 1 pick with his No. 1 snack. http://t.co/5jV9MZnQgC pic.twitter.com/C0BTDDfNQI
— SB Nation (@SBNation) May 1, 2015 2. A lot of people noticed, and many offered bad sports opinions about it.
What was point of Jameis Winston serving crablegs at his draft party? Thumbing his nose at laws against shoplifting? Grow up, dude.
— Jeff Schultz (@JeffSchultzAJC) May 1, 2015 Say what you want about Manziel, but he just loves life. This guy here, why do I think he's a straight-up bad guy? pic.twitter.com/Lwow1tCLPH
— Brian Davis (@BDavisAAS) May 1, 2015 3. Surprise! The photo disappeared from his Instagram account.
4. But there’s some context missing here. This is the backstory:
If people only knew how STUPID they sound killing this kid over that picture smdh
— shaun king (@realshaunking) May 1, 2015 I was seated at the table right next to jameis at the mike alstott charity auction, when captain keith asked jameis to help him auction off
— shaun king (@realshaunking) May 1, 2015 This huge king crab he had flown in for the event. Captain keith is from the deadliest catch show. I wasnt sure how jameis was gonna
— shaun king (@realshaunking) May 1, 2015 Handle the request, but it didnt faze the young man at all he simply said ok sure, we r here to help the alstott foundation right.
— shaun king (@realshaunking) May 1, 2015 That same captain keith in a gesture of thanks sent jameis and his family 25lbs of king crabs legs for his draft event last night.
— shaun king (@realshaunking) May 1, 2015 Thats the backstory behind last nights picture for those of you who need to seriously have some self evaluation done
— shaun king (@realshaunking) May 1, 2015 5. Of course, context doesn’t matter. You know how the story ends.
The pic of Winston Thurs wasn't taken to make light of the crab legs incident at Publix that resulted in a civil citation. However...
— Rick Stroud (@NFLSTROUD) May 1, 2015 Once #Bucs became aware of the Instagram pic of Winston, they encouraged having it removed from his account.
— Rick Stroud (@NFLSTROUD) May 1, 2015 Maybe just relax about the crab legs.
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