Cincinnati Bengals wideout, Chad Ochocinco, has a knack for accumulating fines and with the kickoff for the NFL 
regular season still three weeks away, ‘Robin’ is already writing his first check to Roger Goodell and the league.
Ochocinco, who likes to call himself ‘Robin’, the sidekick in the NFL’s version of Batman & Robin, was slapped with a $25,000 fine for sending out Tweets on his Twitter account during last week’s preseason game against the Philadelphia Eagles.
NFL rules state that players, superheroes or not, are not allowed to Tweet 90 minutes before the scheduled kickoff and not until postgame pressers are completed.
All NFL players have been made aware of those rules since there’s been so much attention brought to them regarding players and media alike, but the controversial player Tweeted anyways, posting two messages during that cut-off time.
In fact, the wide receiver’s second Tweet came during the game at 9:53 p.m. ET:
“Man Im sick of getting hit like that , its the damn preseason [expletive]! 1day I’m gone jump up and start throwing hay makers , #Tylenolplease,”
According to the league, Ocho-5 sent two messages to his one million-plus followers, the first at 6:50 p.m. ET and the second one mentioned above at 9:53 p.m. ET. With the kickoff for that game scheduled at 8:07 p.m. ET; it cost the offender.
How did Ochocinco respond to the NFL? Through his Twitter account posting, “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,”
Any readers interested in following this NFL circus act can go to his Twitter account here.
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