CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Rico Dowdle is turning a fine from the NFL for his “two pumps” touchdown celebration last Sunday into an opportunity to raise funds for children in need of adoption.

After being fined $14,491 by the league, Dowdle started a GoFundMe in which all proceeds will go toward the Children’s Home Society of North Carolina.

He has already raised more than $20,000.

“It’s a charity for kids and foster kids in homes that are in need of a family and it just so happened to be national adoption month,” Dowdle said Thursday at his locker after practice.

Dowdle said his first tweet about doing a GoFundMe was meant to be a joke about raising money to cover his fine, but “it turned into something much bigger and for a greater cause” after GoFundMe representatives contacted his agen

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