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Urlacher and Melton fined a total if $23,750
Urlacher was fined $15,750 for his horse collar tackle if Adrian Peterson while Henry Melton was fined $8,000 for grabbing Peterson's face mask
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NFL fines Urlacher
By Vaughn McClure, Chicago Tribune reporter
11:56 pm, November 29, 2012
Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher told the Tribune he was fined $15,750 for a horse-collar tackle Sunday on Vikings running back Adrian Peterson.
The play occurred late in the fourth quarter of the Bears' 28-10 victory at Soldier Field. Urlacher corralled Peterson near the sideline after a screen pass and then was slapped with a 15-yard penalty.
As Urlacher watched the replay on the scoreboard, he shook his head in disbelief and muttered "that's bull."
When asked if he would appeal the fine, he said, "Oh yes, for sure appealing."
The eight-time Pro Bowler won an appeal after a hit on then-Colts tight end Dallas Clark during an exhibition in 2005.
Urlacher wasn't the only Bears defender to receive a fine after Sunday's game. Defensive tackle Henry Melton told the Tribune he was fined $8,000, likely rounding up the normal amount, for grabbing Peterson's face mask in the third quarter.
Vikings defensive end Jared Allen was slapped with a $21,000 fine for his blind-side hit on Bears right guard Lance Louis. Louis tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee after the hit and is out for the rest of the season.
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Absolutely hilarious. 15k for a horse-collar tackle that did not look like it was intentional or meant with any ill-intent. Less than another $6k for launching at another defensless player and ending his season - possible his career. Yeah. Sounds about right.
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Unfortunately it is a star driven league. If you do something illegal against one of the stars of the game you will be fined greater than if you were to do the same penalty against a scrub. If Louis was a star probowl lineman, the fine would be greater than the $21K.
It's not right, but it is what it is.
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Neither of those were flagrant type penalties. Certainly NOTHING like the Allen penalty. It's like the league is moving to put fines on more "routine" type penalties now. My first reaction is "Who fines Goodell when he makes routine mistakes each day?" ......and the way he mishandled the whole Saints Bountygate fiasco should result it a "suspension" for Goodell for making several mistakes that ultimately has had his decisions altered or overturned, and the courts are trying to sort out the mess.
That Urlacher tackle was not something to fine a player over. Throw a flag, sure. Give the 15 yard penalty, sure. But fining the man, no.
And Melton's face mask was a routine situation where he got the face mask by accident. Not a situation where he was trying to harm the guy. This happens routinely. A mask gets snagged in the fray by accident.
I'm all for player safety, but some of these things are just lacking common sense.
Last edited by JustAnotherBearsFan99; 11-30-2012 at 08:49 AM.
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how many Vike players are they going to fine when Forte was injured? I counted about 3 hands wrenching in there...BS!
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Cutler was also fined 10K for his ball flip
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I got fined an undisclosed amount of money for tossing off in front of the officials. The league said it was a flagrant act of mischief deserving of "substantial punishment." Most likely, they'll send me to some Freudian-schmuck therapist who will then seek to analyze my life as I have lived it from my formative years with my mother onto when I broke up with Maggie Mae because "I wasn't macho enough for her."
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I already spoke my piece about this. There is no rhyme or reason to these fines. The whole system seems to be totally subjective and at the whims of whoever in the league office makes these determinations after the fact.
The league needs some hard and fast rules to govern this and those rules should include game ejections, game suspensions, and fines that are more meaningful than those that they toss out every week. It's nothing more than a "kangaroo court" right now.
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