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Ocho Cinco Slapped With $25K Tweet Fine

Player fined '2 Bugatti payments' for in-game tweets

By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 27, 2010 3:59 AM CDT

(Newser) – Chad Ocho Cinco has been fined $25,000 for giving fans 140-character updates during preseason games last Friday. The Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver sent his 1.1 million Twitter followers two messages during his team's 22-9 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles. The league fined him for possession of an electronic device and posting messages on a social media site during a game, the Telegraph reports.

The player later apologized to NFL bosses—on Twitter. "Dear NFL: I apologize for tweeting during the game but that was 2 months of my Bugatti payments you just took from me, I won't do it again," he wrote.

Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Ocho Cinco  warms up before the start of a game.
Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Ocho Cinco warms up before the start of a game.   (AP Photo/Rob Carr)
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Man I'm sick of getting hit like that, it's the damn preseason! 1 day I'm gone jump up and start throwing hay makers. - One of Ocho Cinco's in-game Tweets

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argh
Aug 27, 2010 9:56 PM CDT
"Regulations prohibit players using social networks up to 90 minutes before a game and until all post-match media obligations have been completed." End of story. Whining not interesting.
MDD
Aug 27, 2010 4:23 AM CDT
No FREE speech in the No Fun League (NFL)
finkster
Aug 27, 2010 4:22 AM CDT
I just wish they would part this fool from the spotlight.
 

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