After scoring a touchdown during a game in December 2003, Cincinnati Bengals receiver Chad Johnson performed a novel end-zone celebration: he reached into a snowbank and whipped out a sign reading: DEAR NFL, PLEASE DON'T FINE ME AGAIN!!!!!

Johnson (who had been fined for a throat-slashing gesture which he claimed was misinterpreted) later revealed a cunning plan for a future end-zone celebration: to have the Bengals play a videotaped performance which would earn him a fine if he did it live. "That way," he said, "I'm actually not doing it, and they can't fine me!"