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Jaguars LB will be on a payment plan for his $20,000 fine (https://chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=249612)

Jaguars LB will be on a payment plan for his $20,000 fine

**** Gooddell. This guy makes ~$97,000 BEFORE taxes IF he stays on the practice squad for 16 weeks. And the league takes $20,000 MORE off the top of that?

What if he's cut after a couple weeks and no one picks him up? He's a freaking undrafted free agent. What a load of shit.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shu...urn=nfl-wp6605

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Making the Jacksonville Jaguars practice squad could end up costing Mike Lockley $20,000.

During the preseason, the linebacker was assessed a $20,000 fine for an illegal hit on a New England Patriots receiver. That debt was wiped away when he was cut from the team's roster at the end of the preseason. If he had remained out of football, Lockley wouldn't have had to pay. Not an NFL player? No NFL fine.

When he was re-signed to the practice squad this week, the fine was reinstated. That would be a hefty amount of money no matter a player's salary. But as a member of the practice squad, Lockley will make $5,700 per week, far less than the amount he owes the NFL.

According to league spokesman Greg Aiello, players like Lockley are put on a payment plan to satisfy their debts. In Lockley's case, once he gets his first paycheck, he'd pay $2,500 per week for eight weeks to make good with the NFL.

Because the amount of the fine is more than 25 percent of his weekly check, Lockley can lodge an appeal. If I were him, I wouldn't hold my breath on getting that fine changed. The NFL doesn't exactly champion the cause of the little guy.

Ochocinco should pay it for him.

Oh well. Hard lesson learned. He's free to go find another job.
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It's a business first and a sport second/Goodell apologists

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Originally Posted by Deberg_1990 (Post 7885470)

Oh well. Hard lesson learned. He's free to go find another job.
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THE ****?

The kid has made it in the NFL. He has a job.

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Originally Posted by Deberg_1990 (Post 7885470)

Oh well. Hard lesson learned. He's free to go find another job.
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We as fans really should look at from Goodells' point of view like you do : a business first, a sport second.

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Originally Posted by Gif Horse (Post 7885472)

THE ****?

The kid has made it in the NFL. He has a job.

If he didnt want to pay.
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**** Goodell. He needs to die in an AIDS fire.

somebody should punch Goodell

That would be the same as fining Brady for like 10 million. Would that be allowed? I don't ****ing think so.

Eh, if Warren Buffet and I both get caught in the same speedtrap going the same speed, we're both going to pay the same fine. I'm failing to see why I should be outraged by this.

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Originally Posted by BigRichard (Post 7885477)

**** Goodell. He needs to die in an AIDS fire.

What I don't understand is how somebody who obviously and passionately HATES the sport of football, and, through his actions, is blantantly trying to destroy it gets the job in the first place, let alone keeps it.

He shouldn't of broken nfl rules then.

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Originally Posted by Bugeater (Post 7885482)

Eh, if Warren Buffet and I both get caught in the same speedtrap going the same speed, we're both going to pay the same fine. I'm failing to see why I should be outraged by this.

Because football is a sport (or it used to be) and the fines be levied out in the PRESEASON have almost all been perfectly legal, in fact textbook hits?

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Originally Posted by Bugeater (Post 7885482)

Eh, if Warren Buffet and I both get caught in the same speedtrap going the same speed, we're both going to pay the same fine. I'm failing to see why I should be outraged by this.

I look at it more like a bail thing. Judges adjust bail based on the amount of money someone has and makes.