Larry Bird tomato: A fruit that looks like it has been popular on Twitter because to the Celtics icon.
On Sunday, Larry Bird was trending on Twitter.
Basketball fans held their collective breaths as they clicked, praying that the legendary coach of the Celtics and former Indiana Pacers, didn’t make the news for any tragic incident with the coronavirus in 2020.
When they discovered the true cause, they laughed and breathed easier. Bird didn’t take a contentious stance on any political issue, and he is neither sick nor dead. Actually, on the same day when a tomato on social media also bore a resemblance to him, he did nothing more than appear like himself.
Devotees have historically found motivation in the apparent manifestation of sacred symbols in clouds, vegetables, toast burn patterns, and other objects.
While Bird’s dedication in Boston and Indiana during his peak in the 1980s approached religious zeal, he never quite achieves the veneration of the Bible.
The tomato, which resembles Larry Bird post-mustache, similar to his current look and the one he had late in his Celtics career and during his tenure coaching the Indiana Pacers, was first posted by someone going by the handle @BingoWings14 on Twitter. This person is Paul, and presumably chose that handle because BingoWIngs1 through BingoWings13 were already taken. Its unimpressive size and scrunchy wrinkles would have prevented it from succeeding on the farm fair circuit, but in contrast to most blue ribbon awardees, it looked like a member of the original.
Nearly a year had passed since Bird’s previous strange news incident, in which he filed a lawsuit to have tattoos depicting him—including images of mating rabbits—removed from an Indianapolis mural, claiming that he had no body art.
