National Football League

NFL looking into Twitter hack of fake post about Goodell

Updated Mar. 4, 2020 5:50 p.m. ET

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NEW YORK (AP) The NFL is looking into how its Twitter account came to be hacked with a post purporting that Commissioner Roger Goodell had died.

Around midday Tuesday, a post went up on the league's official account that read: ''We regret to inform our fans that our commissioner, Roger Goodell, has passed away. He was 57,'' followed by a hashtag and ''RIP.''

That tweet was soon deleted, as were follow-up tweets that said: ''Oi, I said Roger Goodell has died. Don't delete that tweet,'' and, as other Twitter users surmised it was a hack, ''OK, OK, you amateur detective win. Good job.''

NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy confirms the account was hacked and says the league is looking into what happened.