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Browns players fined for mimicking smoking in TD celebration

The NFL fined Watson and Judkins after the Browns touchdown celebration; the cigarette was imaginary, the invoice is not.

On air: Hank Ledger, Gloria Vance and Brock Thunderson on BBN Tonight
Published 10:21 PM ET, Saturday, October 10, 2026

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First reported by Fox News: “Browns players hit with fines for pretending to smoke after scoring a touchdown”.
Covered on BBN on Saturday, October 10, 2026, at 10:21 PM ET on BBN Tonight, by Hank Ledger, Gloria Vance and Brock Thunderson.
Topics: TD.
BBN covered this story before: Sports Wrap: Georgia Tech stuns Duke, White Sox face Game 5 (October 10).

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Fox NewsBrowns players hit with fines for pretending to smoke after scoring a touchdown

Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFox News reports the NFL fined Deshaun Watson and Quinshon Judkins fourteen thousand three hundred ninety-seven dollars each for mimicking smoking after a Browns touchdown.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHot takes, please.
Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe league fined a cigarette that does not exist. Prosecutors in three countries have lost cases with better evidence than an empty hand.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHot. The empty hand has no alibi.
Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistFine the clouds too. Cumulus smokes all day, and nobody docks a cent.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorNot. Clouds have a union.
Gloria Vance · World News AnchorClouds, Brock.
Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistMine's called Gary, and he's innocent.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorMy hottest take: I just mimed a cigarette. Fourteen thousand, invoice me.

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