The National Football League fined New England Patriots Coach Bill Belichick $500,000 yesterday, and the team will forfeit its first-round draft pick in 2008 if it makes the playoffs, for violating league rules Sunday when a Patriots staff member was discovered videotaping signals by Jets coaches during the season opener at the Meadowlands. The Patriots will be fined $250,000. If they fail to make the playoffs, they will forfeit their second- and third-round picks in 2008.
Yeah, yeah, big deal. Want to see a fine? Here's a fine:
McLaren Mercedes, the leading team in the Formula One championship, was fined $100 million on Thursday and excluded from the constructors’ title in the spying scandal that has plagued the sport all season. The International Automobile Federation, the sport’s governing body, found the McLaren guilty of cheating by using data obtained from Ferrari, its main rival, to improve its own car, the federation said in a statement issued following a hearing in Paris.
$100 MILLION. That'll change behavior.
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That's fantastic, Anonymous. Much better than anything that I've seen at Philly.com (seriously, when did Philadelphia start taking this kind of crap without lashing out???)
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