I’m going to take this blog a little off topic for the day because I found something that caught my eye and wanted to share it: Chad Ochocinco, the Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver, has been fined by the NFL for violating the league’s game day rules on social media.
Under the NFL’s social media policy, a player is prohibited from posting messages on a social media site on game days during a period of 90 minutes before kickoff and ending when postgame interviews are completed.
Ochocinco was fined for possessing an electronic device and posting tweets on Twitter right before and during the Bengal’s preseason game Friday against the Philadelphia Eagles, according to the NFL’s website. The first of Ochocinco’s tweets was posted at 6:50 PM ET and the second was posted at 9:53 PM ET. The game kicked off at 8:07 PM ET.
Ochocinco tweeted twice about the incident today. In his first tweet he stated, “#OCNNnews I’ve been fined by the league a substantial amount of money for tweeting, 1st time twitter hasn’t made me money by cost me money.” His second tweet was an apology, where he said, “Dear NFL I apologize for tweeting during the game but that was 2 monthsof my Bugatti payments you just took from me, I won’t do it again.”
What are your thoughts on this? Should Ochocinco have been fined?
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