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NFL memes business: In virus age, teams feign deal ignorance

by AP Sports Writer
| March 20, 2020 12:03 AM

A sense of humor and a dash of creativity, along with memes from "Friends," "SpongeBob SquarePants" and the "Real Housewives" franchise, helped NFL teams' social-media crews tell the story of free agency in the age of the coronavirus before deals eventually were allowed to just be announced normally.

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