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It was a historic locker-room tweet. On Sept. 25, Green Bay Packers player T.J. Lang used Twitter to take out his frustration on the NFL’s replacement referees after a blown call caused his team to lose a game to the Seattle Seahawks. His profane rant didn’t just go viral, garnering more than 55,000 retweets in less than 45 minutes; it was also influential, inspiring a chorus of dissatisfied players and fans to use social media for their complaints. Less than two days later, a deal was in place to reinstate the regular referees.