ochocinco fined $20,000

it may very well be escalation, but still too high imo, i'm just not happy with goddell's overall handling of the league the past few year i really miss the way the league was run back in the 80's, just seemed like it was alot more fun back then, he has made some good moves but overall i'm not a fan, and don't even get me started on his stupid ass obbsession with the nfl being in europe, lame
Thank yooouuuuu

He would move the whole damn league to europe if he could make more money

need another tagliabue but goodell is a big ego.. the snyderrato of the league front

This is a retarded amount for a fine. First of all, he didn't actually bribe the ref, he never got to him. It was a dollar...come on. I can't stand this guy, and most of his fines were right on, but not this one.
Sportscenter was right on, how can Hall not get fined for his altercation with the falcons sidelines, and Mike Smith get a 15000 fine for his actions, but Chad Johnson (I will not call him by the name he made up) gets 20k? Nope...not right.
when's the last time someone got fined just for jawing?

and back to the subject

Goodell's page has been updated hahaha

Roger Goodell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Goodell)

Roger Goodell has also been criticized for his overly-rigid attitude towards players. First he took away the ability for players to celebrate touchdowns with props and just recently he fined Chad Ochocinco for pretending to offer an official a $1 bribe.

it's like wiki was reading my mind

first, ochocinco is a dbag. i also just remembered the other day that this is not the correct way to say eighty five in spanish. lmao FAIL.


he has gone on record a hundred times sayin that, he did it on purpose, ochentacinco sounds feminine

Personnaly I think he tries to immitate TO.

But as far as the NFL applying some type of disciplinary action to a professional athlete that "fakes a bribe to an official" is appropriate. What would happen if he were to wave money in front of a judge? (not that that is an exact analogy).

And if the league does nothing, what's the next "fake bribe"...100$, something even more inappropriate.

Don't get me wrong. I love'd the fun bunch, the smurfs and all the end zone celerabrations of the past but pretending to bribe an official is very different than celebrating a good play.

hm seems like I am the only guy who thinks this fine was justified.

If you take out any personal biases or agenda you have against Ochocinco then how can you justify a $20,000 fine for his action?

Well, he's hitting the cap for about $6.5Million this year so for him I doubt $20k has much of an impact financially.
So the real question (I'm assuming) is whether or not $20K is an appropriate fine?
Not the fact that the action should result in a fine....?

By this fine, I meant the specific fine charged to ochocinco( aka 20k). I never said a fine was right or wrong. So booyah.

And read my first post in this thread as to why I think 20k is more than fair. I have nothing personal against him at all. Anyone who brings money to the ref like that should be fined. The fact it was a joke doesn't matter.

he has gone on record a hundred times sayin that, he did it on purpose, ochentacinco sounds feminine


never heard that, even once.


and lol the jokes still on him...fuck how it sounds, ochentacinco is a MASCULINE noun in spanish.


not that that fucking dbag would give a shit.

I think having the $1 bill on the field was entertaining but, saying in an interview that you were bribing the officials was dumb. He obviously didn't do that. He should have been more clever and said he made a bet with BAL defense that CIN would win.