Dumb and over the top
NFL Fines 5 Falcons for Vick Tributes
NEW YORK (AP) - Roddy White and four other Atlanta Falcons were fined by the NFL for violating uniform regulations with tributes to Michael Vick during last week’s Monday night game.
Vick, Atlanta’s suspended Pro Bowl quarterback, was sentenced to 23 months in prison on federal dogfighting charges the morning of Dec. 10. The Falcons played at home against New Orleans that night.
After scoring a touchdown, White displayed a “Free Mike Vick” T-shirt under his jersey.
He, along with tight end Alge Crumpler and cornerbacks DeAngelo Hall and Chris Houston, were fined $10,000 each. Crumpler, Hall and Houston all wore black eye strips with written tributes to Vick, which the league called “displaying an unauthorized personal message.”
Wide receiver Joe Horn was fined $7,500 for pulling up White’s jersey to show the black T-shirt with handwritten white lettering. The fines were confirmed Tuesday by NFL spokesman Randall Liu.
Hall also had a poster of Vick on the field during pre-game introductions.(source)
10 grand or any fine for that matter is just crazy.
What gets me is that the same NFL that is doing this will be the same NFL that will be banging on Vick’s door when this mess is behind him.
10 grand? Come on!
Vick’s sentence was extreme compared to say the guy convicted of trying to sell $500,000 worth of F-14 parts to the Iranians. That plainly treasonous act that would have been damaging to the security of the nation got only two years at Club Fed.
Comment by Purple Avenger | December 18, 2007