Colts delete controversial schedule release video featuring Tyreek Hill arrest
Colts delete controversial schedule release video featuring Tyreek Hill arrest
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The NFL released the full 18-week schedule for the 2025 season on May 14.
Each team had their own way of announcing their schedule via video. Two teams used the popular video game "Minecraft" (the inspiration for a 2025 movie starring Jack Black and Jason Momoa) to take fans through their 18-week season: the Indianapolis Colts and Los Angeles Chargers.
The Colts' video included subtly jokes aimed at their opponents for 2025 but the team has since removed their video from X.
Speculation is that it was removed due to the first opponent on the schedule: the Miami Dolphins. The original video featured a Tyreek Hill=styled dolphin seemingly being stopped by a Coast Guard boat.
That may be in reference to his arrest last year for a traffic violation before the Dolphins' season opener.
The video is no longer posted on the Colts' X account. Instead, the team has a thread of art made in Microsoft Paint for each matchup as made by the X user @nba_paint.
There's also speculation that the team took the video down because the Chargers had a similar video.
Colts officials have not provided a reason for the video being taken down.
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