09-17-2015, 02:24 PM
(09-17-2015, 02:21 PM)type_stripe Wrote: Sounds like isolated punishment for one specific player. unless the league hands out other $35k fines for first time offenses with fighting in-game but not being ejected, then this is unfair.
It's not really unfair. A few of us have already brought up the reason many times. Taking someone's helmet off and then either striking them, grabbing their exposed head, pushing their head, or anything involving their exposed face/head is probably going to warrant the extra money.
I'd say there's a 98% chance that it had to do with that and a 2% chance that the extra money was because of incidents from 7-9 years ago.
Also, I'm pretty sure that it has been confirmed that he wasn't ejected because the officials didn't see every detail that happened until it was later reviewed. Don't quote me on that one though, but I thought I read that in one of the articles.
