As Americans continue to celebrate Team USA hockey's 2026 Winter Olympics gold victory over Canada, on both the men’s and women’s side, an unlikely contender has slid into contention for the biggest beneficiary: Jimmy’s Famous Seafood.
Jimmy’s didn’t just stumble into the spotlight, either. The restaurant barreled its way into the national conversation with a simple three-word reply on X: "Go f**k yourself."
As OutKickcovered over the weekend, the Huffington Post wrote atruly awful storyclaiming that many Americans feel "shame" rooting for the United States at the Olympics. The outlet was proud of that story and even published it a second time. It also posted the story on its X feed.
That didn’t go particularly well.
HuffPo got, as the kids would say, ratioed. Hard.
As of this article’s publication, the social media post has more than 27,000 comments and roughly 1,600 likes. But the comment that really caught fire was the one from Jimmy’s Famous Seafood. That reply has since racked up over 200,000 likes, more than 100 times as many as HuffPo's original post.
But here's the best part: Jimmy’s co-owner and CEO, John Minadakis, was the one who fired off the post, and he did it from a place you wouldn't expect.
"Yeah, so that was actually my tweet," Minadakis told OutKick. "Interestingly enough, it was sent from a church."
Minadakis said he was at Godparents' Sunday with his kids when the men’s gold-medal game went to overtime.
"We had to watch overtime during the liturgy," he said.
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