Dear NFL: Please Explain Your Punishment Scale

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Published: November 13, 2009

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... performance on Thursday night , I'm pretty sick of football right now, so I'm gonna keep this short and sweet.

Over the past few days, the NFL has levied fines from incidents that happened in three separate games in Week Nine.  These were the Falcons-Redskins sideline brawl, the Chad Ochocinco attempt to bribe a referee, and two incidents in the Bears-Cardinals game—Jay Cutler's arguing with officials and Tommie Harris' punch to the head of a Cardinals player.

Of those four incidents, two involve violent confrontation, one involves a verbal argument, and one involves a joke involving a small prop, in this case a one dollar bill.  Which two do you think cost the offending player the most money?

Jay Cutler and Chad Ochocinco were each fined $20,000 for their infractions, while the highest fine in the Falcons-Redskins brawl was $15,000 (for a coach no less), and Tommie Harris was fined just $7,500. 

Commissioner Goodel...

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