Carolina Panthers running back Rico Dowdle took every precaution during his Keegan-Michael Key–inspired celebration to avoid violating the NFL’s strict rules, but it wasn’t enough. The league fined him anyway. Dowdle made appeals. But as his efforts seem to have failed, the Panthers RB made humorous and anxious appeals on X.

“Starting a go fund me, they got me” he wrote on X. Though his agent was quick to respond. “We are appealing!”

Will the NFL change its decision?

This is a developing story.

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