T.O. fined

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WC's Resident Samoan

Terrell Owens was fined $35,000 for spitting at DeAngelo Hall, Where hall believes Owens should have been suspended for 1 game without pay.


Looking at history, the NFL was correct.

1997- Bill Romanowski fined $7,500 for spitting at Owens former Teammate J.J. Stokes

2005- Sean Taylor kicked out of the game and fined $17,000 for spitting at Tampa Bay's Michael Pittman.

Randy Orton

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lol i hope it was worth it for TO.

Mr. WikipediaSpamBot

Didn't TO admit it too?

You don't spit in someones face, you just don't.

Joe Cool

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He admitted it then denied it later and said it was an accident.

35k is chump change to Owens.

It will not phase him.

Swamps

What Terrel Owens done was inexcusable. I know Owens has had heat with Hall since last seasons game in Atlanta when Owens was an Eagle but, that is just something you do not do to another player. Be the bigger man and beat the guy up the field and make catches on the man instead of spitting in the guys face. Yes I do know Owens owned Hall in this game but, I am still saying it was classless. His comments after admitting to it was a blatant lie; he said he spit in Hall's face because Hall had annoyed Owens the entire game.... but it was on the sixth play of the game that Owens spit in Hall's face. Over the years the NFL has fined players and it still doesn't seem to faze them so, I say with the new commisoner should come a new rule. I say the next player that spits in another players game should not only be fined but should at least be suspended one game.

Jayman

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With the amount of money athletes make, I think 35k is a fine amount. He admitted it, so he had to of known he was gonna get fined. Too bad.

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Slimdust

First off, LOL at hall.. He is sucha pansy.. Why would he cry to the media about this?

T.O did say he did, but he was confused at the question. Hall was in T.O's face all day, and he pushed him when he was out of bounds and they got real close and some spit came out, NOW, I think it was just you know yelling and some spit came out. No big deal, T.O said he was sorry. If it was really like something where T.O spit in another mans face liek im talkign about a lot of spit, dont you think hall would of did something then? Like pittman did last year? I would.

35 g is not a lot for t.o. Someone did the math i forget where, and that is only like 35 bucks for someone else. Dude makes 8 million.

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I am so tired of hearing about this guy... just kick him out of the country and be done with the fool... yes he is an above avergae wr, but he is not even one of the top 5 in the league imo and he is getting all of this attention... It's disgusting.

Slimdust

huh? He leads the nfl with touchdowns for wr. And it is not his fault you keep hearing about him. If he farts, the media will be all over it. I am sick of the media.

By Todd Archer IRVING -- As Terrell Owens walked into the Child Life Center at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children on Monday morning, he was surrounded by little boys and girls wanting his autograph and asking for a picture during the Cowboys' annual holiday visit.

Owens joked with the kids and offered words of encouragement to two boys who were going to have surgery later that day.

Arround the same time in New York, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell had decided to fine Owens $35,000 for spitting on Atlanta conerback DeAngelo Hall during Saturday night's game.

Asked by reporters during the hospital visit about the incident and what he would say to the kids who looked at him as a role model, Owens said, "Everybody makes mistakes. Be accountable, and keep moving forward."

Former Cowboys conerback Deion Sanders on Monday set up a three-way phone conversation so Owens could apologize to Hall.

"We talked about it," Owens said. "I expressed it wasn't anything intentional, and that's basically where we left it. I just want to express to the media and people on the outside it's not going to escalate to anything more than what it is. And I think a lot of people are thinking that, and it's not going to be that."

Owens said he did not expect to be fined, adding that he did not intentionally spit on Hall. He called the league's action unprecedented.

"When it happened, we were jawwing in each other's face, so it wasn't anything intentional," Owens said before hearing he had been fined. "He's trying to make it seem like more than what it was by saying I hauled off and spit in his face. I feel like if I spit in his face, teammates on both sides, somebody would've seen it. When I got asked about it on the [NFL Network] show, I was caught off guard by it. I didn't want to get into or elaborate, so I just apologized and kept it moving."

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was not surprised by the fine, which Owens said he will appeal.

"I know the commissioner is making a point of emphasizing the importance of player behavior that takes place before, during and after our ballgames," Jones said. "As an organization, we don't condone any acts that detract from, or take away from, so many of the positives that our games produce."

Bill Parcells said the team could take further action against Owens but, per the collective bargaining agreement, the Cowboys cannot impose their own fine.

Parcells said the team would not announce a further penalty if it chooses to take action.

The fine greatly exceeds the fines doled out for recent spitting incidents. During a playoff game last season, Washington safety Sean Taylor was ejected and later fined $17,000 for spitting at Tampa Bay Running back Michael Pittman. In 1997, Denver linebacker Bill Romanowski was fined $7,500 for spitting on San Francisco receiver J.J. Stokes.

Owens said he understands the outcry from the public regarding the spitting incident.

"At the same time, there are a number of times you get into a heated conversation with people," he said. "I was kind of aggravated with him during the course of the game when you're talking back and forth at each other. I have a mouthpiece and an Invisalign [invisible braces] so it's easy to kind of spit at someone when you're talking back and forth."

The $35,000 represents roughly 12 percent of Owens' weekly pay of $294,117. It's the largest penalty given to a Cowboy since safety Darren Woodson was fined $75,000 for a helmet-to-helmet hit on Seattle receiver Darrell Jackson, but that was Woodson's third fine-drawing hit of 2002.

The punishment falls in line with the penalties Goodell has levied since taking over for Paul Tagliabue in September.

"I think Commissioner Goodell is trying to take strong action on some of this stuff," Parcells said. "All you've got to do is see that Knicks' game the other night. ...This [behavior] is dangerous stuff ... I do think you see a lot of things in sports today that you wish weren't a part of it for an old-fashioned guy like me."

Parcells has attempted to defuse the Owens stories all season.

"I've tried to make it a habit not to talk too much about him," Parcells said. " ... I just try to get the player to play to his potential on the field. That what my job is."

Staff Writer Calvin Watkins contributed to this report.

The Dallas Morning News -- SportsDay -- Tuesday, December 19, 2006

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now T.O. has 35,000 reasons to regret spitting on that guy's face.

They should round up all these "spitters" - Romanowski, T.O., Taylor, Roberto Alomar, etc. and put them in a room and let them spit on eachother and let others spit on them from up above. I would spit on them and I would like it. What a bunch of fags. That's a total bitch thing to do to someone.

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