Bizarre yet not totally unexpected news this afternoon: Troy Polamlu was fined by the NFL for using a cell phone during last Sunday’s game against the Jacksonville Jaguars. Polamalu was seen on CBS talking on a cell phone after he sustained a head injury. Polamalu said he was calling his wife to let her know that he was fine.
This is Roger Goodell’s National Football League. A league where coaches can engage in a pushing match after the game and go unpunished but where a player is fined a large sum of money for letting a loved one know they are safe. I understand that what Polamalu did was against the rules and I wouldn’t have a problem with the fine if Goodell & Co. played by the letter of the law with everything else, but they don’t.
