Another Fine Mess For Chad

People say "Hey Zandar, why are you always giving Chad Ochocinco a hard time?  You never know what he's going to do next!"

To which I invariably reply "Bullshit, I know exactly what he's going to do next:  get fined by the NFL."

Chad Ochocinco’s mock attempt to bribe National Football League game officials with $1 cost the Cincinnati Bengals receiver $20,000.

Ray Anderson, the NFL’s executive vice-president for football operations, determined that Ochocinco broke two rules by approaching the officials with the U.S.’s smallest unit of paper currency in his hand during an instant-replay review of a third-quarter catch in last week’s win over the Baltimore Ravens, Corry Rush, an NFL spokesman, said in an e-mail.

One rule bars “abusive, threatening or insulting language or gestures toward game officials,” and another rule prohibiting “possession or use of extraneous objects that are not part of the uniform during the game on the field or sidelines,” Rush wrote.

“The very appearance of impropriety is not acceptable,” wrote Rush. “His conduct was unprofessional and unbecoming of an NFL player.”

And we're only halfway through the season.  Now granted, the Bengals are 6-2 and Ochocinco has been a big part of the success of the orange and black this year on the field...but that success comes at a price.
Ochocinco's not the only one paying, either.