When this Tweet came across my Tweet Deck this afternoon, suffice it to say, I was a little stunned. And suspicious. Yes, it turns out
the @NFL Twitter account was hacked this afternoon, with hackers posting a tweet telling the account's 19 million followers that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell had died. Even after the NFL took that tweet down, hackers followed it up with two more:
Rest assured, Goodell is alive and well, although you could argue his conscious died several years...
amirite?!?!
Turns out @IDissEverything was the hacker:
https://twitter.com/scottyknoxville/status/740223110721347584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/ChelseaGatesTV/status/740229094328127488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
LOL
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