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LEAGUE WILL SOCK IT TO PORTIS, TAYLOR
Commanders running back Clinton Portis and safety Sean Taylor can expect to receive a letter this week from the league office requesting that they each make a generous contribution to a little charity known officially as the big pot of money into which player fines are deposited. (Or maybe it's the Human Fund.)
Both departed from the official team uniform by sporting non-uniform socks in Sunday night's game against the Eagles. Portis had a solid burgundy wrap over one calf that ended above a bare ankle, and a similar concoction on the other leg with gold and white horizontal stripes in the middle. Taylor's white socks had four sets of burgundy-and-gold stripes; everyone else (except Portis) had one.
Last year, Portis and Taylor pulled similar stunts in back-to-back games. Said Portis at the time, "That is a stupid fine for the simple fact that they want everybody to be the same. This is an individual game, you know. That is the thing that has the league being the No. 1 sport, because different personalities come together as one and people enjoyed that."
Both are subject to fines of $10,000, at a minimum. Given that they both previously have been fined twice and still apparently haven't gotten the message as to what is/isn't acceptable, the league has the ability to impose higher fines based on their specific circumstances.
The league also may impose a fine on the "team management and coaching staff" if it is determined that they have condoned or permitted the violation. Given that someone inside the locker room surely knew that Taylor and Portis were in non-conforming socks -- and that they'd done twice it before -- we wouldn't be surprised if someone gets their knuckles smacked for not smacking down Taylor and Portis, especially since the violations occurred in a nationally-televised game.
And we're not here to pass judgment on whether it makes sense to require complete and total uniformity. However, the rules are the rules. If guys like Portis and Taylor don't like it, they can try to find a professional football league that will not only pay them millions to play a game but also allow them to dress themselves in any manner that they see fit.
One last point. Our guess is that the NFL won't remind the media when issuing the fines to Portis and Taylor that Broncos quarterback Jake Plummer got a pass when committing his own uniform violation several weeks back by not wearing the "Futbol Americano" decal? Though the rules require in such cases a minimum fine of $5,000, the NFL (in our estimation) decided that what the Spanish-speaking world doesn't know won't hurt the league's effort to remove la leche from a cash cow named Juanita.
Individual game??? Since when?? (that's why the Commanders suck!)
Commanders running back Clinton Portis and safety Sean Taylor can expect to receive a letter this week from the league office requesting that they each make a generous contribution to a little charity known officially as the big pot of money into which player fines are deposited. (Or maybe it's the Human Fund.)
Both departed from the official team uniform by sporting non-uniform socks in Sunday night's game against the Eagles. Portis had a solid burgundy wrap over one calf that ended above a bare ankle, and a similar concoction on the other leg with gold and white horizontal stripes in the middle. Taylor's white socks had four sets of burgundy-and-gold stripes; everyone else (except Portis) had one.
Last year, Portis and Taylor pulled similar stunts in back-to-back games. Said Portis at the time, "That is a stupid fine for the simple fact that they want everybody to be the same. This is an individual game, you know. That is the thing that has the league being the No. 1 sport, because different personalities come together as one and people enjoyed that."
Both are subject to fines of $10,000, at a minimum. Given that they both previously have been fined twice and still apparently haven't gotten the message as to what is/isn't acceptable, the league has the ability to impose higher fines based on their specific circumstances.
The league also may impose a fine on the "team management and coaching staff" if it is determined that they have condoned or permitted the violation. Given that someone inside the locker room surely knew that Taylor and Portis were in non-conforming socks -- and that they'd done twice it before -- we wouldn't be surprised if someone gets their knuckles smacked for not smacking down Taylor and Portis, especially since the violations occurred in a nationally-televised game.
And we're not here to pass judgment on whether it makes sense to require complete and total uniformity. However, the rules are the rules. If guys like Portis and Taylor don't like it, they can try to find a professional football league that will not only pay them millions to play a game but also allow them to dress themselves in any manner that they see fit.
One last point. Our guess is that the NFL won't remind the media when issuing the fines to Portis and Taylor that Broncos quarterback Jake Plummer got a pass when committing his own uniform violation several weeks back by not wearing the "Futbol Americano" decal? Though the rules require in such cases a minimum fine of $5,000, the NFL (in our estimation) decided that what the Spanish-speaking world doesn't know won't hurt the league's effort to remove la leche from a cash cow named Juanita.
Individual game??? Since when?? (that's why the Commanders suck!)
