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Morning Fail: Visanthe Shiancoe's ability to multitask

Aug 28, 2010, 9:15 AM EDT

phone-in-toilet.jpgIn this Brave New Sports World, we, as fans, are blessed with nearly an absurd amount of media coverage. When that is paired with the recognition by many athletes that fans are interested in even the most mundane aspects of their personal lives, and that they are able to broadcast those details instantly through various social media platforms to the world, things like this are bound to happen:
Courtesy of this tweet from yesterday, Minnesota Vikings tight end Visanthe Shiancoe has informed us that he clumsily dropped his cell phone in the toilet.
Interesting? Not really. A sign that there comes a point where we don’t need to know everything about our favorite athletes? Yeah, pretty much. And if there is one professional athlete who typifies this trend more than most it most certainly is Visanthe Shiancoe.