NFL fines 5 falcolns players for Vick tributes
Posted by Media Outrage on December 18, 2007
Geeez Louise….you can’t even support your fallen teammates these days. 5 Atlanta Falcons players were fined nearly $10,000 a piece for violating NFL uniform regulations with tributes to Michael Vick during last week’s Monday night game.
The Falcons played at home against New Orleans that night.
After scoring a touchdown, White displayed a “Free Mike Vick” T-shirt under his jersey.
He, along with tight end Alge Crumpler and cornerbacks DeAngelo Hall and Chris Houston, were fined $10,000 each. Crumpler, Hall and Houston all wore black eye strips with written tributes to Vick, which the league called “displaying an unauthorized personal message.”
Wide receiver Joe Horn was fined $7,500 for pulling up White’s jersey to show the black T-shirt with handwritten white lettering. The fines were confirmed Tuesday by NFL spokesman Randall Liu.
Hall also had a poster of Vick on the field during pre-game introductions.
July 7, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Leave Vick alone. Dayum… Sarah P. can go moose hunting and kill some harmless animals for sport, but Vick can’t raise some stupid dogs to rip each others heads off for sport? What kind of messed up country is the US of KKK?