Jets Fined for Not Reporting Favre Injury

by John B on Sep 16, 2009 8:20 PM EDT Comment 1 comment

The NFL came down on the Jets, Mike Tannenbaum, and Eric Mangini for failing to report Brett Favre's injury late last season.

The NFL assessed a total of $125,000 in fines to the New York Jets and former coach Eric Mangini on Wednesday for violating the league's rules on injury reporting with regard to former quarterback Brett Favre last season.

The Jets failed to place Favre, now with the Minnesota Vikings, on the injury report during the final month of last season, even though he had a torn biceps tendon.

The league announced it had fined the Jets $75,000, and Mangini and Jets general manager Mike Tannenbaum $25,000 apiece. Mangini now coaches the Cleveland Browns.

You wonder why the NFL didn't come down on the Jets until now. It was pretty common knowledge that Favre wasn't 100% late last season. Then again, after months of physical play, you could probably stick just about any pro football player on that list.

This injury list is bogus. No team takes it seriously. It only exists for gambling purposes. The NFL gave the Jets a slap on the wrist. Now we can all move on from this nonstory.

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Couldn’t agree more about the Injury list being bogus. Do you think any opposing coach after a game in a press conference will say “oh, well Farve isn’t on the injury report so we were prepared to see more from him.” Any coach worth anything watches the tapes and will be able to tell pretty quickly if someone is hurt and how badly hurt they are.

The injury list is only there for gambling. Yet the NFL and the 3 other Major sports came out against Delaware having a sports book. At the same time though they sure took advantage of the State Lottery deals. What a joke. If your against gambling, you should be against the lotto and you shouldn’t bow to vegas and release injury reports.

by WebBard on Sep 16, 2009 8:45 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs