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NFL teams recreate games with toys following league ban on highlights

Teams face $25,000 for showing game highlights
Teams face $25,000 for showing game highlights. Photograph: Geoff Burke/USA Today Sports

NFL teams have shot back at the league’s ban on franchises posting highlights to social media by recreating Sunday’s games using toys.

Any team posting (real-life) highlights face a $25,000 from the league, which has denied the move is in response to falling television ratings. Under the new rules, teams are also banned from posting video from their own stadiums during games. NFL Players Association spokesman George Atallah said the league’s actions had given rise to the “peak ridiculous” situation of teams posting fake highlights.

The NFL did not comment on the tweets from the Browns and Eagles. It is unclear whether the toys in question will count towards the teams’ salary caps.

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