Jimmy Graham bends the uprights at the Georgia Dome with his dunking TD celebration

We’ve all seen clips of basketball players like Shaq breaking backboards with their dunks back before the NBA started making breakaway rims. But we haven’t seen the same thing translated to football, until Thursday night at the Georgia Dome when Jimmy Graham’s dunking TD celebration got the uprights a bit askew:

And it didn’t snap back:

Personally, I think it would’ve been best if they’d just kinda left it that way and forced kickers to adjust. But apparently there are “rules” and stuff about the uprights being ... you know ... upright.

So they had to get out the bubble level:

Don’t hang on the rim, Jimmy. That’s a technical foul.