So now that the super bowl and all the parades are over I can talk about football again. I am and will always be a Niners fan so excuse me if it took me more than a week to get over our lost. But in the wake of our defeat I have to bring up one thing. The NFL has yelled consistency when it comes to helmet to helmet hits and touching Referee’s. So I am baffled that Cary Williams didn’t receive a fine for the picture below!
The league is setting a bad example by not even fining Williams. This season alone we had Bill Belichick get fined $50,000 for grabbing a ref after a game. Cam Newton was fined $21,000 for barely bumping into a ref. In 2010 John Harbaugh was fined $15,000 for demonstrating a move Suggs did on a ref.
The league office says that Williams was not intending to bump the ref and that there was nothing malicious about it. Was John Harbaugh being malicious when he was showing the ref a move? Who can judge intent? The league did themselves a dis-credit on this one. Now players will be able to push, slam or throw a ref out the way. Once they get fined they can appeal and say hey i didn’t know it was a ref at all. And thanks to the league you have to let them go. They should have fined him a couple thousand to save face and asked the ravens to pay it for him!
Former supervisor of NFL officials Jim Daopolous wrote on his Twitter account Williams should’ve been ejected, regardless of intent. Fox’s Mike Pereira, the league’s former vice president of officiating, told Sports Illustrated Williams should have been ejected.
Daopolous also said in an appearance on NBC Sports’ ProFootballTalk Live Newton should have been ejected as well, and now the players’ making contact with officials is “starting to snowball.”
I agree! So next season give the ref’s helmets and shoulder pads because there’s no intent if they are wearing pads!!!!
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