{"id":436341,"date":"2023-09-25T17:57:28","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T17:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=436341"},"modified":"2023-09-25T17:57:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T17:57:28","slug":"hackenberg-caught-wind-of-dave-portnoys-pizzafest-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/hackenberg-caught-wind-of-dave-portnoys-pizzafest-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackenberg Caught Wind Of Dave Portnoy&#8217;s Pizzafest Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before the Washington Post&#8217;s smear piece on him was even published on September 22, 2023, Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy fired back. He did so by phoning one of the piece&#8217;s writers and criticizing her journalistic ethics.<\/p>\n<h2>Hackenberg Caught Wind Of Dave Portnoy&#8217;s Pizzafest Controversy<\/h2>\n<p>The claimed hit article addressed Dave Portnoy&#8217;s contentious background while attempting to figure out why Pizzerias were partnering with him for his One Bite Pizza Fest.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post referenced a blog post from the Barstool Sports founder, who claimed that former Jets quarterback Christian Hackenberg was &#8220;f-king gorgeous&#8221; in the piece, which focused on the criticism around Portnoy&#8217;s event in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I Caught Wind That The Washington Post Was Writing A Hit Piece About Me And My Pizzafest So I Did What I Do. I Went on the Offensive <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5oK2zJqVAs\">pic.twitter.com\/5oK2zJqVAs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stoolpresidente\/status\/1704574353415823411?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The One Bite Pizza Fest, which was based on Dave&#8217;s popular One Bite Pizza review series, was also criticized by Chef and Food Writer Kenji Lopez Alt. The chef recently criticized the festival in an Instagram story. Kenji&#8217;s narrative cautioned pizzerias and the general public against attending Portnoy&#8217;s event since they would be supporting a man with a supposedly extremely problematic past.<\/p>\n<p>Portnoy responded to one X user who stated that was &#8220;the best part&#8221; of The Washington Post piece, saying, &#8220;This is objectively funny.&#8221; And yes Hackenberg was one piece of ass.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">09\/22\/2023, post \/screenshot of KanekoaTheGreat post video of Dave Portnoy being interviewed by Fox News anchor, I forgot his name, about the above original post from Dave&#39;s account about Pizzafest.<br \/>Elon Musk&#8211; Portnoy is right <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6QTcm5UclM\">pic.twitter.com\/6QTcm5UclM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; LEB (@LEBcando) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LEBcando\/status\/1705220427679736130?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 22, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>When Hackenberg saw Portnoy&#8217;s tweet, he replied, &#8220;Thanks Dave,&#8221; with a winking face emoji.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re welcome,&#8221; wrote Portnoy. &#8220;I call it as I see it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hackenberg is the quarterbacks coach at Winslow Township High School in New Jersey right now.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Washington Post is garbage and everybody knows. <br \/>Washington Post Admits It Smeared Dave Portnoy Just To Get Barstool Pizzafest Sponsor To Respond \u2013 OutKick <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8u01476gnk\">https:\/\/t.co\/8u01476gnk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NotYourJewishMom (@CaffMomREDACTED) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CaffMomREDACTED\/status\/1705243165521813681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 22, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He was a starter at Penn State from 2013 to 2015 before being drafted in the second round by the Jets in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Hackenberg never appeared in a regular-season game during his two seasons with the Jets and also saw no action with the Raiders, Eagles, or Bengals.<\/p>\n<p>He also failed as the starting quarterback with the Alliance of American Football&#8217;s Memphis Express, which disbanded in 2019.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2018Piece of ass\u2019 Christian Hackenberg gets involved in Dave Portnoy Pizzafest controversy Dave Portnoy found one thing funny in The Washington Post article he said was a \u201chit piece\u201d about him and the One Bite Pizza festival he organized on Saturday. In the article \u2014 which focu\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FRCrhFuQmd\">pic.twitter.com\/FRCrhFuQmd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Let&#39;s Talk About Dis Shidd (@MrsBarnesII) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrsBarnesII\/status\/1706345632040972753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 25, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Dave Portnoy&#8217;s One Bite pizza evaluations, in which he takes a bite out of a restaurant&#8217;s pizza before rating it, rocketed him to popularity as a prominent food critic. Dave Portnoy&#8217;s devoted admirers include pizza reviewers and Barstool supporters, and he has a gigantic 1.05 million YouTube subscribers and an even larger 4.5 million Instagram followers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So funny to watch Dave Portnoy expose the Washington Post for becoming everything they claimed Richard Nixon was &#8211; a dirty tricks operation doing hit pieces.  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stoolpresidente?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@stoolpresidente<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/pizzafest?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#pizzafest<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/daveportnoy?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#daveportnoy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; MARK SIMONE (@MarkSimoneNY) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkSimoneNY\/status\/1705644566227931449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>However, Portnoy has not found favour with everyone and is a source of contention. 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Hackenberg Caught Wind Of Dave Portnoy&#8217;s Pizzafest Controversy The claimed hit article addressed Dave Portnoy&#8217;s contentious background while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":436351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[15832,15833],"class_list":["post-436341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-christian-hackenberg-dave-portnoy","tag-dave-portnoy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}