That call was originally a helmet to helmet call, another ref called the taunting penalty.

http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-networ...-Review-Week-5

Mike Pereira talks about that play @ the 4:04 mark in that video

Merriweather and Royal lined up on each other in college for many years with Royal taking him to school. There's some bad blood there.

Cool vid. I guess that's a regular feature - I'm going to have to start checking that out each week...

... and it WAS helmet-to-helmet. :mad: (maybe that factored into how high the fine was)