Deleted minutes after it was posted, the tweet read:
“We regret to inform our fans that our commissioner, Roger Goodell, has passed away. He was 57. #RIP”
NFL Vice President of Communications, Brian McCarthy confirmed the hacking on his personal Twitter page and said that Goodell “is alive and well.”
After the Goodell death tweet was deleted, two more unauthorized tweets were sent from the NFL’s Twitter account and were deleted as well.
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