Updates: Final NFL Fine Blotter, Rob Parker Fired, and my take on a legitimate decision last night.

First off, the Week 17 NFL Fine Blotter:

Not much that final week, according to the NFL:

• San Francisco 49ers committed three fine-able offenses for two fines, both for the same thing:  Michael Crabtree and Frank Gore decided to throw memorabilia, in the form of the balls they had just scored touchdowns with, into the crowd.  Crabtree actually did this twice.  Both were fined the mandatory $10,500.  (Crabtree's fine was not, erroneously, doubled.)

They finally explained why this is a fine.  Turns out, if the player hands a football to a fan right on the first row, it's fine!  Throwing it into the stands in that manner, though, causes a crowd fight.  That's not fine!!

Or, better, that's _a_ fine!

• Washington Redskins:  Sav Rocca, fined $7,875 for tackling a Dallas Cowboy punt returner by the face mask!

Sav Rocca was the PUNTER for the Redskins.

• Green Bay Packers:  Tramon Williams:  $7,875 for an unnecessary headshot in the Viking-Packer second meeting of three.  This makes Williams' a TWO-TIME LOSER in the last five weeks of the season!
• Cleveland Browns:  Phil Taylor:  $7,875 for some shenanigans away from the play against a Pittsburgh Steeler.

And finally, yet another AFC West donnybrook:

• Oakland Raiders:  Takeo Spikes:  $7,875 for some pleasantries with
• San Diego Chargers:  Mike Goodson:  $7,875.

Both players were also ejected.  So, during the game, was an entire section of Qualcomm Stadium.

No joke.  There was so much fighting between Raider Fan and Charger Fan that the entirety of an upper-deck section was cleared by the police.

$60,375 for 7 players, including the season's final multiple offender.

The final regular-season fine take for the league:

THREE MILLION, ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-THREE THOUSAND, SIX HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS.

That $3,123,625 translates to nearly $200,000 a week.

More on this in another post.

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Today, the news came down from Bristol that, to the surprise of no one, except disgust as to how long it took ESPN to wake up, Rob Parker's suspension from the network is now permanent.

He was fired today.

Technically, his contract was up during the suspension, and they refused to renew it.

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And how'd everybody like that manipulated BCS Championship last night?

Any doubt left that Notre Dame didn't belong in the same state as the title game??

42-14 was FLATTERING to Notre Dame.  They got things done to them which were very unpleasant.

That's 7 in a row and 8 of the last 9 recognized champions for the SEC, 3 of the last 4 to Alabama.

They're either going to have to rig the last BCS final (next year in Pasadena -- the four-team playoff starts in 2014-15) to exclude the SEC outright, or the SEC is rolling here too.  I fully expect Johnny Football to have another Heisman and a title before he turns pro.