The No Fun League fines Carr and McKinney for Horn mockery

freaking NoFunLeague. thats why people get turned off by the nfl sometimes. so dumb.

 

omg that is so stupid!! why is the nfl being party poopers now?

 

HAHA.

Anyone else find this funny?

 

steve mckinney is hilarious!

what a joke...but i knew they'd get fined, as soon as they did it. the nfl fines virtually everything. some guy peed without lifting the seat at reliant last week, and the nfl fined him on the way out of the bathroom.

 

ESPN radio reported last night both McKinney and Carr would be fined $30,000 each...what a joke.

 

McKinney was just kidding with that "I think David should pay" line wasn't he?

 

absolutely...he makes fun of David all the time on sportsradio..calls him pretty boy

 

I heard about it...can't believe it...dumb, dumb, dumb!...

I hope they know fans are repelled at news such as this...

 

He should have his own show. The guy has such a dry sense of humor. I love it when he's on 610.

 

Darn looks like Carr will have to sell his Porsche Suv

 

Houston Chronicle

Carr, McKinney fined $5,000

By JOSEPH DUARTE
Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle


The NFL gave Texans quarterback David Carr and center Steve McKinney belated Christmas presents Friday -- $5,000 fines for spoofing New Orleans receiver Joe Horn's cell-phone call in the end zone during Sunday's game against Tennessee at Reliant Stadium.

"It's not a big deal," Carr said. "(The league) basically said we shouldn't do it again."

After Carr's third-quarter touchdown pass to Corey Bradford, McKinney raced to the goal post and acted like he was searching the padding. There was no phone, and Carr waved his hand below his chin to signal to fans that there would be no repeat of Horn's antics.

McKinney said he and Carr came up with the idea in the huddle just before the TD.

In a letter from the league this week, the explanation for the fines was that the celebration was premeditated, Carr said. Both players plan to appeal.

Horn was fined $30,000 by the NFL for making an end-zone call Dec. 14 after teammate Michael Lewis handed him a phone that had been stashed under the goal post padding.

The NFL has been cracking down on prop-oriented celebrations, beginning last season when San Francisco receiver Terrell Owens took out a Sharpie pen and signed a ball after a touchdown. Two weeks ago, Cincinnati receiver Chad Johnson held up a handmade sign after a touchdown that read: "Dear NFL: Please don't fine me again." He was fined $10,000.

 

the nfl is straight up lame. they want to provide entertainment and gain veiwers but when a player contributes to more interest in the league, they fine them instead of paying them for free advertisement.

 

I was just reading through that article.. they came up with the td celebration in the huddle right before the touchdown?

I know it's not a big deal but it seems to me they should be discussing the play not the td dance in the huddle lol

 

i bet he had to wait in line to pee. i had never seen lines outside a mens john until reliant

 

that's true...and there's really nothing more fun than the pressure to pee while some fat sweaty dude is waiting for your urinal so he can get back for another $7 beer.

 

If I was David Carr I'd embarass the crap out of the NFL right now. This is the chance for the fun bunchers to make a point and challenge the system. Nobody will agree with this fine in my opinion. And yet nobody gets fined for the Lambeau leap, that impromptu, whimsical, unthought of, display of affection. It's a double standard.

 

A lot of teams other than the Packers (including the Texans) jump into the seats after scoring. There's no double standard involved.

I think anytime you involve the fans in a non-taunting way, you're not going to get fined. No one ever gets fined for giving away footballs, unless they still charge the players for the footballs like they used to do in the past.

To be honest, I didn't like the display at all if they were doing it to mock Horn instead of the NFL. Once you make fun of a fellow player in a public way like that, it makes you no better than that player (even though I really had no problem with what Horn did). However, if they were making fun of the NFL for fining Horn, then I'm down with that.

 

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Let them play . .and let them Play

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If a Texan Lambeau leaps at Lambeau he'll get a fine for taunting and 15 yards. If a Packer Leaps nothing will happen. I can see the fairness clearly now. If that isn't the worst kind of taunting I don't know what is. As a fan I love it. But it's still taunting if one team can do it but the other can't. A double standard if you will.

That being said I have no answer to what the NFL really wants to curb, which is fighting. Suspensions of 5 games for fighting hurt the league too much. You can't suspend Warren Sapp for 5 games. So there's no good answer. but if you take out the good stuff from the game to negate the small amount of bad are you really helping? I think you need to focus on the bad.

It's a lot like if a hot girl walk into a classroom. The guys get rowdy. Do you punish the hot girl because she's hot. and ban her from the classroom. Thus preventing the problem. Or do you punish the guys who get rowdy after it's too late.