This is a few days late but still merits a mention: the league, for the second week in a row, has rescinded a player fine after common sense prevailed over the randomness of the NFL Plinko Board.Last Friday we learned that Giants defensive end Justin Tuck wouldn't have to pay $7,500 for sacking Cowboys stand-in Brooks Bollinger, thanks to a pardon from the commissioner.
And yesterday came news that Patriots wide receiver Randy Moss will get to keep his 20 grand for making some nebulous comments about the sorry state of officiating. You see, Mike Pereira, NFL head of officials, WILL NOT STAND FOR CRITICISM, which sorta makes him a taller, better-coiffed Kim Jong-il (but nowhere near the golfer).
Moss's original comments following the Week 9 loss to the Colts:
"There were some real iffy calls out there, and it's just some of the things that you wished wouldn't have happened. Good calls and bad calls are part of the game, so you got to live and die with them."According to the Boston Globe's Mike Reiss, league spokesman Greg Aiello confirmed that it was the "iffy calls" utterance that got the league all hot and bothered. Lucky for Moss, Ray Anderson, the
It's a start, I guess, but maybe if the folks in charge of meting out the punishment weren't in such a hurry to, you know, punish anything that moved, the whole sham wouldn't appear quite so arbitrary.
