Years ago North Korea had an extremely involved media coverage campaign of their participation in the World Soccer World Cup. There was just ONE catch:
North Korea wasn’t IN the World Cup.
Through creative editing they deceived the ENTIRE country.
They would have a clip of a NK soccer player scoring a goal, then they’d put in a clip of astonished, admiring fans from the world over, the fans going wild.
Day after day, it was like that, presumably the entire NK viewing public thunderstruck with national pride at their trouncing of all teams daring to challenge Mighty North Korea.
NONE OF THEIR PLAYERS WERE THERE.
This NFL monkey biz sounds vaguely similar.
Actually, that was a parody.