NFL Scripted / Super Bowl Script

The NFL Scripted or the Super Bowl Script , also known as the NFL Script Conspiracy , is a conspiracy theory and series of memes claiming that the Super Bowl and NFL are scripted and pre-determined. Memes joking that the NFL is scripted became increasingly popularized online in early 2023 leading up to the Super Bowl LVII. In late January 2023, Barstool Sports co-host and former Houston Texans player Arian Foster sarcastically joked on an episode of Macrodosing that the NFL is scripted, inspiring a Twitter user to leak a fake "Super Bowl" script later that week, which some purportedly believed was real. The clip and tweet were shared online out-of-context and spread as a conspiracy theory, also inspiring further memes about following "the script."