Badmouthing Official Costs Cowboys Owner

Probably everyone who has played an organized sport has at some point been victimized to a blown call by a referee or an official. Well just recently Jerry Jones, the owner of the Dallas Cowboys heavily disagreed with referee Ed Hochuli's calls and had negative comments toward that referee on a local Dallas radio show. It just so happens that being the owner of a professional organization you must hold back your remarks of these kinds and this one cost Jones big time. It cost him $25,000 to be exact just for stating his opinion and saying this: "Maybe the answer is to tell people like that, 'Keep that whistle out of your mouth.   "My gut here is the emphasis is going to have to be taking officials like that and getting somebody else if they're going to be penalty prone." It was a similar remark that got New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton a $15,000 fine which is now in appeal. All it took for Roger Goodell to fine the Saint's head coach $15,000 was the word "unacceptable" which was how he described the officiating at the end of the Saints 32-34 loss against the Broncos in week 2.

                If you ask me that's quite a penalty for one or a few words in which these team representatives were

only displaying their opinions. I believe the two men were just standing up for their team. On the other hand NFL commissioner Roger Goodell was standing up for his officials as well, making sure to make an example out of Jones and Payton so that players, coaches, and owners do not continue to make negative remarks towards game officials. I'm sure that those will not be the last negative remarks toward officials this early in the year and I'm wondering if Roger will continue to carry on fining in this manner for the remainder of the season.

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