Early Week 9 Fine Blotter

• Seattle Seahawks:  Richard Sherman, in his quest to bring the Legion of Boom to Houston in February (and it's either them or Dallas to face Belicheat's Patsies, at this point!), took out the other team's kicker with a blatant cheap shot.  For this, he was fined $9,115.
• In evidence that the win for the Hawks was rigged:  The entire ensuing series was erred by the league and admitted as such:  Sherman nailed the kicker after he was flagged for offside -- should've been 15 more.  At that point, the kicker had to leave the field because of the injury rules (And if you don't think that people have figured out this is a good way to take out a kicker before a key field goal now...), the play was burned off with a spike that could've been intentional grounding, then a delay of game call the refs screwed up, then the kicker (returning after the hit) misses the eventual field goal.
• Dallas Cowboys:  David Irving and
• Cleveland Browns:  Cam Erving, $9,115 each for their ejection altercation.
• Which led to an interesting discussion.  Three ejections in the early games last week has made the total for the season ten.  Recent record is 13 from two years ago -- normal years get about 4-6.   Be surprised if the year total doesn't get to about 20-25.
• New Orleans Saints:  Kenny Vaccaro, about to be suspended four games for Adderall.   (Per NFL.com)