ESPN Tries to Get in on ‘Sharknado’ Fun and Fails with San Jose Sharks Tweet

July 12th, 2013 by Gabe Zaldivar Leave a reply »

Count ESPN among the many casualties claimed during the hilariously awful presentation of SyFy's Sharknado. 

If you were on Twitter for any moment Thursday evening, you no doubt ran into a flurry of Sharknado tweets.

ESPN got into the action on Friday morning and smacked a clever post toward the San Jose Sharks, only to have it returned with the force of a terrifying tornado teeming with hundreds of man-eating sharks. 



ESPN is mum on the sledgehammer comeback, but that hasn't stopped others, including some NHL teams, from tipping their virtual hats in San Jose's general direction. 



In one magical moment, the entire hockey world was unified, and it was indeed beautiful. 

Judging by the horrible ratings, there are a great many of you who are wondering what exactly a sharknado is, which makes for a dynamite quandary. 

It seemed like all of Twitter had their televisions tuned to the SyFy network on Thursday night to take in just the latest movie dedicated to awesome absurdity. 

The Atlantic has a beautiful graph that il ...

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