On a beautiful Sunday afternoon the Tennessee Titans were giving the Buffalo Bills all they could handle and the owner of the Titans Bud Adams gave the fans and the League's commissioner Roger Goodell all they could handle. I guess Tennessee versus Buffalo is a rivalry game, but you would definitely think it is the way Bud Adams was giving the double bird to the fans of the Buffalo Bills. Seriously towards the end of the fourth quarter after Commissioner Roger Goodell had breakfast and sat in the luxury box with Bud Adams. Goodell saw Bud Adams flicking off fan after fan after fan as he sat in the stands with regular blue collar football fans. Roger Goodell who also said earlier that week that he wanted to make every football stadium family friendly only to see this owner happily and repeatedly giving the finger to all of his haters and didn't stop there. After the game Bud Adams made it down to the field to show off his middle finger some more. So with a day to take Bud Adams actions into consideration and hear every sports television and radio station comment about it. Roger Goodell gave Bud Adams a fine that I feel set the bar for any other owner that tries to follow suit. Roger Goodell gave Bud Adams a whopping 250,000 dollar fine for what the League's spokesman Greg Aiello said was conduct detrimental to the NFL. Look this fine was a good decision, but on the other hand I understand why Bud Adams flicked off the fans of Buffalo. Picture this if you will, you're a owner of a professional sports team and every time you go to a different stadium you see your team get disrespected and heckled and sometimes you yourself gets the same treatment. You come to Buffalo a so called rival and fans are yelling at you as you're sitting high in your luxury box, "hey Bud when are you going to retire?" or "where you in your right mind when you drafted this loser Vince Young?" and not only does Vince Young and the Titans beat the Bills, but demolish them. You wouldn't get a certain urge to flick these critics off? I know Goodell wants each and every stadium to be family friendly, but is he going to fine or kick out every fan that uses profanity or uses his finger as a sign of disrespect. All I have to say is this, we are all human and I feel no man is better than the next if they got 50 million dollars or 50 cent we are susceptible to that urge to say,"hey I'm the man and there's nothing you can say or do about", or "you was talking all that smack. Now look at me." Now I'm not saying that Bud Adams was wrong, I'm just saying I understand completely. You went from 0-6 made a season saving decision to put Young in the starting line up and now it looks like it's paying off. Just put that money towards that hefty fine.
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