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Cat videos, game shows among five best 2020 schedule reveals by NFL teams on Twitter

The 2020 NFL schedule releases were heavily influenced by the coronavirus pandemic.

Some teams had nurses, delivery workers and doctors reveal there schedules. Others gave a nod to the stay-at-home orders around the nation and shared their schedules as if channel surfing, with kid’s art or video chats.

As usual, the teams’ creativity was on display on Twitter on Thursday night.

Here are five of the best.

Jaguars

Who doesn’t love cat videos? There are roughly eleventy billion such videos on the Internet and Jacksonville picked some of the best to reveal its schedule.

Chargers

LA paid tribute to frontline workers who have worked diligently despite the spread of the coronavirus. Sixteen people were given a gift and then revealed an opponent:

49ers

San Francisco didn’t use words to show a single opponent in a mesmerizing reveal:

Eagles

Philadelphia used clips from “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Veep,” “Treme” and the “Simpsons” for its schedule release. Philly also trolled the Steelers with a scene from “Sesame Street” and took a shot at New York with a “Little Giants” video.

Buccaneers

Tampa Bay revealed its schedule in the form of a game show and one contestant made a terrible barbecue mistake.

This story was originally published May 7, 2020 at 7:43 PM.

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