Colts Issue Apology to Dolphins' Tyreek Hill Amid Insensitive Schedule Release Video

On Wednesday, May 15th, the NFL announced the schedule for the 2025 NFL season. Each team's social media department created a schedule release video, showcasing their creativity and highlighting their matchups for the upcoming season. 

For the team's schedule release videos, some will crack jokes at their opponents' expense. While mostly light-hearted, the Indianapolis Colts' schedule release video went a step too far.

In the Colts' schedule release video, they portrayed their week-one matchup against the Miami Dolphins by showing star Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill, as a dolphin in the video game Minecraft, being stopped by the coast guard and 'arrested.'

The Colts have since deleted their post, but fans saved the video, which Ari Meirov of The 33rd Team shared on Twitter/X.

#Colts statement: “We removed our schedule release video because it exceeded our rights with Microsoft & included an insensitive clip involving Dolphins WR Tyreek Hill. We sincerely apologize to Microsoft and Tyreek.”

Here’s the video, which some saved…pic.twitter.com/xmDOLHooBs

— Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) May 15, 2025

The Colts portrayal of Hill being arrested in the video was insensitive, but it wasn't the only reason the Colts deleted the video from their social media. To make their schedule release video in Minecraft, the Colts needed permission from Microsoft to use the games rights, which they did not have.

After deleting the video, the next day the Colts issued a statement and apology on their schedule release video, apologizing to Hill for their insensitive inclusion of Hill in their video. 

 

James Boyd, Colts reporter for The Athletic, shared the Colts statement on their schedule release on Twitter/X.

The Colts statement is as follows: "We removed our schedule release video because it exceeded our rights with Microsoft and included an insensitive clip involving Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill. We sincerely apologize to Microsoft and Tyreek."

The reference the Colts were trying to portray was when ahead of the Dolphins season-opener in 2024, Hill was stopped by police outside Hard Rock Stadium for a minor traffic violation. Hill went on to play against the Jacksonville Jaguars that same day, and the charges were later dropped.

Including a reference to Hill being arrested was an insensitive joke to try making in their schedule release video. While the Colts took down the video and apologized to Hill, the video is still out there and the damage is done.