Posts Tagged ‘arguing with official’

Bucs’ Talib, FJ Cheek have confrontation

• Controversy, Week 12
Sunday, November 28, 2010 – 11:13 pm | 1 Comment

by Ben Austro

Week 12: Buccaneers at Ravens

Tampa-based beat reporters witnessed an argument involving the Buccaneers cornerback Aqib Talib and field judge Boris Cheek. Talib was upset at a pass interference call against fellow cornerback Myron Lewis (Update 11/29: NFL.com has video of the penalty) and apparently confronted Cheek after the game near the locker room. According to Anwar Richardson in the Tampa Tribune and St. Petersburg Times’ Rick Stroud, the two-way critique between Talib and Cheek progressed like this:

Talib: “You made a pussy call.”

Cheek: “You played like a pussy.”

Talib: “I’ll (hit) you in your bitch ass mouth.”

Talib had to be restrained by his teammates. (Why does this remind me more of South Park?) The game supervisor would not comment since the incident did not happen on the field. A league spokesman said they will look into the issue. Carl Cheffers is the crew chief.

File photo of Boris Cheek from 2008.

Cutler fined $20K for arguing with ref; Titans owner gives $¼M, 1-finger salute

• Discipline, Week 10, Week 9
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 – 11:23 am | Comments Off

by Ben Austro

Couple of stories of the NFL handing out fines for conduct:

  • Backtracking to Week 9, Bears quarterback Jay Cutler was fined $20,000 for arguing a call with referee Ed Hochuli. Cutler was flagged for a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty. Much like Chad Ochocinco’s $1 facetious bribe the same day, this is the standard first-offense fine for “verbal or other non-physical offense against [an] official.”
  • Also in the Bears–Cardinals game, the Bears defensive lineman Tommie Harris, who was ejected on the third play of the game for what Hochuli described as “slugging” another player, was fined $7,500 (video at 0:19).  Because the Bears played a Thursday night game, the fines were not announced until after their Week 10 game.
  • Finally, in a case of swift justice, Titans owner Bud Adams was fined $250,000 for obscene gestures launched from his luxury box towards the Bills sideline—or $125,000 for each finger. The incident happened at the end of Sunday’s game, with the fine being announced Monday morning. There was little dispute in the matter, as his double-barrelled salute was uploaded to YouTube.