At some point, every NBA season produces a moment that feels like it was written by social media itself: a take, a receipt, a sudden reversal, and a camera waiting for the punchline. The Los Angeles Clippers’ recent 15–3 surge has delivered exactly that, with blogger Robert Flom quite literally swallowing his doubt after the team steamrolled the stretch he once called “just about impossible.”
Back on Dec. 20, with the Clippers trudging through an ugly start, Flom, who runs the Clippers-focused blog 213Hoops, responded to optimism online with a vow that sounded safely dramatic at the time: if the Clippers ever went 15–3 in any 18-game span, he would print the tweet and eat it. The problem with making guarantees in January is that February loves to collect.
The Clippers did it anyway. Their 15–3 run was clinched with a 126–89 win over the Brooklyn Nets on Sunday, a result that turned Flom’s old post from a throwaway line into a deadline. The team even leaned into the moment, amplifying the viral promise once it became clear the math had flipped from hypothetical to inevitable.
True to his word, and to the delight of the internet, Flom followed through, printing out the tweet and eating it during a livestream. It was the rare internet stunt that actually happened exactly as advertised, down to the absurd detail that, yes, paper is apparently “pretty crunchy.”
“where were you when the eat the tweet happened?” @ClippersPod #PaperBowl #ClipperNation pic.twitter.com/E3MqCSeBfV
— cel 🩵 (@celineft) January 27, 2026
