NFL Reduces Adam's Fine, Admits They Were Wrong

[BFritz21]

The reduced the fine on Adam Jones from 28,940 to 12,500, which is basically just the NFL admitting that the refs ****ed up:

Quote:By reducing Jones' fine by to less than half of the original number, that's a pretty good way of saying, "we screwed this up but can't completely admit that, so we'll just reduce your fine by a significant margin."

There's really no question the refs got this call wrong by not flagging Joey Porter for being on the field for Jones to argue with in the first place. This should have been an offsetting type of scenario or have no flag be thrown at all.

But alas, we're left to wonder what would have been had the right call(s) been made.

You don't reduce a fine by that much unless you know you screwed a team out of its glory.

Reducing it by that much is basically saying "that's our fault, but we can't take it away completely or we'll look even dumber."

The pain of being a Bengals fan.