The Philadelphia Eagles mocked the NFL’s new social media rules with hilarious fake highlights
The NFL recently instigated a new policy that forbids individual teams from posting highlights to their social media accounts during games. According to a memo obtained by Sports Illustrated, teams that violate the rule will be fined upwards up $25,000 for a first offense and up to $100,000 for multiple offenses.
On Sunday, as their team played the Washington Redskins, the Philadelphia Eagles came up with a new and creative method of tweeting highlights without violating the new rule: video of an old-school electric football game aimed at recreating the plays in question.The opening kickoff is especially noteworthy since part of the charm of the electric football games was that the players would just randomly move in different directions:
Philadelphia’s Twitter account is also retweeting the highlights from the NFL’s account, as we’ve seen other teams do as a way to get around the new rule.
But these tweets are a fun little jab at the NFL for the new rule, and hopefully they will inspire other creative efforts from other team’s social media accounts. After all, it’s only football.
[Source:-Business Insider]
