Before we get to the Fine Blotter, what the NFL is up against...

I said yesterday that I think the NFL is seeing what's happening at lower levels and reacting -- with both the illegal hits and the after-play stuff.

Here's an example.  The slamming player (who damn well should've been ejected) is a Kentucky Player of the Year and the #1 recruited tight end in the nation.  This is what he did after a goal-line interception -- a clear ejection-level slam for injurious conduct in high-school football:

#1 Ranked TE & OU Commit @SenecaDriver just Gronk Spiked a DB after an INT 😳 pic.twitter.com/doP22ACEw9

— Red Dirt Media (@RedDirtMediaCo) September 26, 2026

That's me:  He's ejected, suspended, and referred to the school for a school suspension.  That is clear Intent To Injure. 

AND WAIT, THERE'S MORE!!

In another tweet, we find out that the player, Seneca Driver, has already been ejected and suspended from a game for unsportsmanlike conduct earlier in the season!

EDIT TO ADD ANOTHER ONE FROM TODAY:  12:25 PM PDT

Texas and Tennessee are playing a top-15 matchup in Tennessee today.

A Texas player, Collin Simmons, a member of the #1 team in the nation, celebrated a sack today by mocking urinating on the field.

I won't dignify that by posting it.  It's all over the Net.

Yes, he was flagged.  No, it should've been flagrant and he should've been gone.

And since the game is on ABC, that's an FCC violation too.  So they can expect to be fined, which I hope they turn over to the University of Texas.

(And yes, I filed one.)

AND WAIT, THERE'S STILL MORE!!!

A SECOND FCC violation by the University of Texas.

Raleek Brown scored the first touchdown in the 20-17 win.

For his touchdown celebration, he pantomimed smelling his balls and passing out.  Brown was NOT penalized.

Smelling your own balls and passing out is INSANE pic.twitter.com/u6WhphiDJA

— Hater Report (@HaterReport) September 26, 2026

Upon Further Review: You expected NORTHWESTERN to be given a fair shake over the B1G's new darling, Indiana?

From the new X account tied to this blog directly (which will almost certainly be banned within four weeks once some transphobic ass like Nancy Mace starts in):

The Big Ten was supposed to be allow viewers to listen in to the replay review but the audio only worked from the Referee, not the Replay Center.

Would have been helpful to see how the Replay Center didn’t have this out of bounds at the 11. But alas 🤷🏻‍♂️ https://t.co/1bDGAUnvmV

— OfficiatingObserver17 (@RefObserver17) September 26, 2026

2026 NFL Fine Blotter, Week Two, Part Three: Whatever happens, New York MUST get involved...

Another charge of persistent unsportsmanlike conduct:

• Detroit:  Amon Ra-St. Brown:  Over $56,000 -- we'll get the precise number tomorrow -- for four different incidents of Ra-St. Brown mock-smoking during play.

OK, NFL.  It's time for New York to get involved.

You have to have league officials watching each game.  They have to be able to buzz the officials to throw flags on this crap.

If the fines stand, then all three players involved should've been suspended for Week Three.  Because all three players should've been ejected from their games for the Unsportsmanlike Conduct Rule.

There needs to be a league directive, and I'm afraid the time has come:  ANYTHING other than Hand The Ball To The Ref, Shut The Fuck Up, And Go To Your Huddle Or Sideline, is 15 yards and a strike to ejection.

EDIT TO ADD 1:50 PM PDT 9/25/26:  Now that Super Fraud has it's own X account -- for now...  (I don't see that lasting four weeks with my political stands), ANOTHER taunting/illegal celebration fine:

• Dallas:  Jake Ferguson was fined, presumably the about 14 grand, we'll find out tomorrow.  Another "drinking of beer" celebration.

This one probably should stand.  There's an important distinction.  The use of a ball as a prop has been a penalty and a fine for a number of years.  THAT should allow this one to stand where Juszczyk's has to be an issue.

Manchester City Found Guilty Of Financial Foul Play

But it's so serious, the question is:  What can really be done, short of expulsion from the English soccer pyramid?

ESPN has received information that Manchester City has been found guilty of basically all of the 115 Financial Fair Play charges which have been literally hanging over its head for the last several years.

Manchester City has not denied, in concept, they have been found guilty of all of the charges except one.

Obviously, City will appeal any determination as such, and any sanctions as a result.

The initial investigation took four years, and to get to this point took another three and a half.

The charges of violation of Financial Fair Play rules span from 2009 to 2018.  Manchester City won three Premier League championships directly in that span -- then, in 2018-19, they won the domestic treble:  Premier League, FA Cup, League Cup.  The finished in the Champions League positions four of the other five years in that span.

And that's before they won four in a row from 2020-21 to 2023-24.

Throw em out.  Part and parcel.

It can very easily be concluded the entire Manchester City championship run of the last FIFTEEN YEARS has been due to Financial Foul Play.

This isn't one or two guilty verdicts -- this is ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN.

What other penalty can there be but expulsion from the Premier League and from English soccer?  Even if the ramifications of it mean the end of the Premier League, which some pundits think might be a good thing.

There is no basically zero basis nor legitimacy in ANY of this fifteen-year run of dominance.

Since 2009:

• 8 Premier League championships
• In the Champions League every year since 2010-2011
• 6 FA Cup Finals
• 2 FA Cups
• Only 2 Champions' League finals, one of which they won, both in the 2020's.

And not a shred of it legitimate.

Not one.

2026 NFL Fine Blotter, Week Two Part Two: The People's Fines?

And this is the biggest fine of the year, if the MSN report of that is true.  We'll find out Saturday.

But the Cincinnati Bengals' two star players, Ja'Marr Chase and Tee Higgins, have been fined over $80,000, per the report, for The People's Elbow.

Six Times!

I'm actually surprised the league didn't buzz the officials for a "non-football act" penalty for that.

Six times???  And no flags???

Look, I might have some issues with the FOOBAW MAN, but you better have a DAMN GOOD REASON for that one...

Pat McAfee got one right between the eyes on Monday.

And I'm not surprised I can't find audio or video to back it up.

On Monday, Pat got a Tweet from someone who wanted to see him "Kirk'd on air live."

And he asked what that meant...

The show basically stopped when they all realized it was a call for assassination.

I'm sure McAfee is a right-wing prick -- given his time in WWE and now on ESPN.

But that is quite the stretch...  Unless you're willing to try to pull it off.

Take it from someone who knows.

Barring probably a major off the field incident in the next 72-96 hours, we have our DUD OF THE WEEK for Week 3...

I don't know how much can be worse than this, so I'm awarding the gold medal right damn now for Week 3.

The Green Bay Packers.

Are we seriously now trying to tank Arch Manning to the [correction, see below] ...?  I could actually see a rigging angle which has that as the outcome at this point.

17 yards is all you got on the ground -- at least a team record if not an NFL record going back to 1933.

35-14 to a team who lost 34-3 last week -- and it wasn't even THAT CLOSE.

If Matt LaFleur is still the coach as of the close of business tomorrow...

Correction:  Dallas traded the better of their first round picks to the Jets as part of the package to get Quinton Williams in November.  So the Jets are now looking to be the Tank Bowl team.