Penalty continues after Raiders lost to Browns

Last Sunday’s 9-23 loss to the Cleveland Browns was really a big shame to the Oakland Raiders. Not only because of the loss, but also because of the penalties they received during the game, no wonder they did not sell out their season finale in time to avoid black out.

Three Raiders players have been fined by the league they together will have to pay $40,000 for wrong deeds on field. Tight end Tony Steward has to play $25,000 for “making intentional physical contact with a game official”, and defensive end Richard Seymour and cornerback Stanford Routt both were fined for hitting players in Browns jerseys after play was over. Seymour’s amount is $10,000 and Routt’s is $5,000.

Because of their behavior on field, both Stewart and Routt were ejected from the game during the game. And the three guys’ behavior together caused the Raiders to be penalized 13 times for 126 yards overall in the game.

Bills RB Jackson was fined $5K for not using standard strip

Now the NFL is called by many the “No Fun League” as it at times finds new reason to fine those play football in NFL jerseys. The latest reason it found to collect money from players is using a different strip of eye black from what is called the “standard” strip. Truly, the Buffalo Bills running back Fred Jackson was just fined $5,000 for the very reason.

Jackson painted “DIII” under his eyes during last Sunday’s game against the Atlanta Falcons and got to know that he would have to pay $5,000 for that Wednesday. Complaining about the fine after Wednesday practice, Jackson said he was surprised by the punishment because he’s been wearing “DIII”—which stands for his Division III college football background—since the Coe College product first broke into the league with Buffalo in 2007.

And he had previously never received any kind of warnings on using non-standard strip from the league, who declined to comment, neither explained what rule the running back violated, but said all player fines will be confirmed on Friday.

Cowboys tackle Adams may be fined again for foul playing

The NFL is now reviewing what happened between the Dallas Cowboys tackle Flozell Adams and New York Giants defensive end Justin Tuck to decide whether to give Adams fine or even suspension.

Video clearly shows Adams shoving Tuck in the back at the end of the first half in New York’s 31-24 victory Sunday when there was a small melee between players wearing both teams’ NFL jerseys on the New York sideline. Adams was given a personal foul penalty but no yardage was marked off against Dallas at the start of the second half.

It seemed that there is something wrong with the co-existence of Adams and Tuck this season. In Week 2, Adams also had some trouble with Tuck and was fined by the league $12, 500.

Mischievous Bengals WR was fined $20,000 for having fun on field

The Cincinnati Bengals’ most mischievous player, wide receiver Chad Ochocinco, was fined $20,000 for playing with one $1 on field while playing against the Baltimore Ravens.

It was during the third quarter of the game, while an official was reviewing one of Ochocinco’s catches, the receiver held a dollar bill in his right hand at his side and pretended that he was trying to bride the official. He did not actually give the bill to the official but the league just did not like his behavior. They reprimanded Ochocinco for taking the dollar bill onto the field and fined him $20,000.

Ray Anderson, the league's executive vice president of football operations sent Ochocinco a letter that said: "The very appearance of impropriety is not acceptable. Your conduct was unprofessional and unbecoming an NFL player."

According to Anderson, Ochocinco violated more than one league rules, including rules prohibiting abusive, threatening or insulting language or gestures toward officials and rules prohibiting players wearing NFL jerseys from taking items onto the field that are not part of their uniform.

Three Packers were fined, $5,000 each

The Green Bay Packers Coach Mike McCarthy is not happy with last weekend’s loss to the Minnesota Vikings, nor with the fines his players received from the league. Three players of the team were fined $5,000 dollars each for actions in the loss, making the team ranking top in numbers of players being fined.

The three are defensive tackle Johnny Jolly, cornerback Al Harris an rookie defensive tackle B.J. Raji. Jolly was fined on Friday for unnecessary roughness for head-butting running back Chester Taylor, who was wearing Vikings jersey; Harris was fined for unnecessary roughness for grabbing a helmet-opening to make a tackle; and Raji was fined $5,000 for a major facemask violation.

“Not very smart,” McCarthy said. “We had them stopped. Personal fouls in that situation and the way it happened, from my understanding, it’s unacceptable, to extend the drive like that and it cost us four points.”

Because of Jolly’s head-butting to Taylor, the Vikings had an automatic first down at the Packers 7 and scored a touchdown four plays later. But Jolly refused to tell what caused his aggressive act, only saying that he was playing on edge.