Rico Dowdle and Aaron Jones are apparently taking Hingle McCringleberry’s lesson to coronary heart.
Dowdle was fined $14,491 for a pelvic thrust celebration through the Carolina Panthers’ 16-13 win towards the Inexperienced Bay Packers final Sunday. He appeared to mimic the celebration of Keegan-Michael Key’s character Hingle McCringleberry from “Key & Peele,” who’s penalized after an identical celebration in a soccer sketch.
Crucially, McCringleberry had a flag thrown after three thrusts. Dowdle restricted himself to 2, however as Key himself identified throughout a latest video name with the Panthers, the NFL’s guidelines usually are not the identical as within the sketch. Key and his spouse, Elle, additionally donated $15,000 to Dowdle’s charity GoFundMe that the working again arrange after the superb, with cash going to the Kids’s Dwelling Society of North Carolina.
After scoring a landing on Sunday, Dowdle posed as if he was about to do a McCringleberry celebration — then stopped himself, cannily avoiding a superb.
Zero pumps@BudLight | #ForTheCelly pic.twitter.com/FbIULA84ZJ
— Carolina Panthers (@Panthers) November 9, 2025
Jones did the identical factor through the Minnesota Vikings’ recreation towards the Baltimore Ravens.
Nope not as we speak 🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/YqfCD4PMZk
— Minnesota Vikings (@Vikings) November 9, 2025
May this be the beginning of a pattern? We’ll see if some other gamers observe swimsuit.