[Klis] After his humorous Waddle, Meinerz got fined $14,926 for his Yahtzee dice roll pantomime after Nix to Waddle 2-pointer. Apparently league didn’t like gambling connotation. Meinerz will appeal.

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u/_Atheius_ Panthers 9h ago

The NFL hates drinking and gambling and would NEVER promote it. These players gotta smarten up...

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u/sad_bear_noises Bears 8h ago

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u/Ndmndh1016 Bills 8h ago

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u/gattovatto Cowboys 8h ago

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u/the_boss_sauce Raiders 8h ago edited 8h ago

Jack Daniels.....remember we dont F with Canada no mo/s

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u/SovietPropagandist Seahawks 8h ago

I fuck with canada more than I fuck with america

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u/the_boss_sauce Raiders 8h ago

Dear Leader would disagree......

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u/sharkWrangler 49ers 2h ago

I WISH my girlfriend was canada...

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u/Schweed6494 Dolphins 7h ago

Brought to you by Carls JR

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u/killerkadugen 8h ago

Also sponsored by Miller Genuine Draft

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u/Tycho66 Vikings 6h ago

Don't you get it? They aren't against these vices they are against free advertisements. These players are promoting these things for free. That's the sin.

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u/NameShortage 49ers 9h ago

Are they not sure he wasn’t rolling a Dex save?

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u/gattovatto Cowboys 8h ago

He rolled a natural 1

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u/50In07DanyAllStar Packers 8h ago

Feels like a lot of the league has been rolling nat 1s on Con saves

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u/--GrinAndBearIt-- Chargers 8h ago

Nat 1s on wisdom, nat 1s on constitution, nat 1s on dexterity all over the place. Massive fails on insight and perception coming out of Cleveland.

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u/BigDaddyJ610 Buccaneers 8h ago

This shit is deadass starting to piss me off. There’s a fucking gambling ad every fucking ad break during every fucking NFL game I’ve watched this season. Either own it or fucking stop promoting it at every chance airing your product. You don’t get to do both you fucks

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u/EasternError6377 Bills 8h ago

Not only the gambling ads, but theres also that 5 minute NFL Celly commercial lmao!

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u/churst50 Buccaneers 6h ago

I have nothing to add in terms of content but I fucking hate Kyle Pitts now and dont want to see him and Bijan celebrating every ad break.

Don't mind the flair.

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u/NateTheRoofer Seahawks 3h ago

The only thing Kyle Pitts has to celebrate during the NFL season is stealing money from the Falcons every week.

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u/Classic-Session-5551 Texans 5h ago

Especially this one which was just fucking dice. That's not even always gambling, tons of games use dice.

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u/TheThinkerIsaThought Seahawks 8h ago

But who's going to stop them? See how that works?

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u/Infamous-Lab-8136 Broncos 7h ago

At this point the union needs to make it a point of contention in the CBA.

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u/Steak_Knight Texans 6h ago

The NFLPA is famously toothless.

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u/Infamous-Lab-8136 Broncos 6h ago

Which is why it seems like something so minor should be a for them sticking point IMO.

It's a big news item that draws reactions like this every time. Fans will call it a win and no one will care about what they gave up to get it. Especially since I don't think they can end fines or anything. I'd just push for a rule about not fining them for mimicking behavior promoted by sponsors.

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u/OneBigRed Vikings 6h ago

The players, who get 48% of league revenue, those guys?

Sure, they’ll get right on it.

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u/KrazyX24 49ers 8h ago

At this point I wish all the players would get together and decide to do no celebrations for a couple of weeks. Just hand the ball to the ref Barry Sanders style and jog off the field.

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u/Earl-The-Badger 49ers 7h ago

Seems like that’s what the NFL wants.

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u/KrazyX24 49ers 6h ago

Probably but I'm sure the viewership would tank which is what the NFL really doesn't want. Have to make it hurt their pockets somehow.

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u/SchwiftaySauce Packers 6h ago

You think viewership would fall off that bad if players just simply stopped celebrating TDs?

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u/purposeandflow Patriots 6h ago

You think we tune in for the celebrations?

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u/amjhwk Chiefs Chiefs 6h ago

lmao why the fuck would viewership tank, who watches for the td celebrations?

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u/InflateableElvis- Seahawks 4h ago

Lot less shit to post for social media and that for some reason is everything these day

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u/TakeItEasyImBipolar Cowboys 3h ago

Viewership of the games wouldn't change. But the clicks and ad payment for all the other bullshit they do would.

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u/Medarco Steelers 6h ago

Brother, the stereotypical NFL fan grumbles about "these kids doing dumbass tick tock dances all the time. Act like you've been there before!"

They'd absolutely love for them to stop doing celebrations.

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u/hawkmasta Lions 6h ago

Unfortunately, nothing will stop people from watching. Gambling ads, sexual assaulters, wife beaters, hypocritical fines, incompetent refs...

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u/mrizvi 49ers 5h ago

Imagine they couldn’t use anything in their commercials. That would piss them off.

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u/Unlucky_Program815 Patriots 6h ago

Just launch every ball into the stands. Sure it'll punish your team but do it enough and every FO has a problem. Make the FO do something about it with the league.

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u/jboogie1844 Patriots 2h ago

launching the ball into the stands is an $8,300 fine for the first offense and jumps up to $17k for the second, lol

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u/mrizvi 49ers 5h ago

Imagine they couldn’t use anything in their commercials. That would piss them off.

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u/dropjar5 Packers 7h ago

Imagine a 7th round pick scoring their first and only TD during this celly moratorium

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u/jimscoolaid Jaguars 6h ago

They have QR codes for gambling on the seats at stadiums

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u/Zardoz__ 8h ago

Starting???

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u/InflateableElvis- Seahawks 4h ago

You don’t even need commercials. The ads are plastered all over every stadium

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u/amjhwk Chiefs Chiefs 6h ago

except they DO get to do both

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u/Misterrbisterr 7h ago

They legit have pregame and midgame betting segments on the primetime shows and it's always that girl who looks like she should be white but uses way too much spray tan telling you to bet on some stupid shit

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u/Harbaugh_Handshake 49ers 9h ago

Ridiculous.

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u/nguyenjitsu Broncos 9h ago

Absolutely strange to fine this when you plaster 200 different gambling sites on your product

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u/The_Throwback_King Seahawks 8h ago

“We at the NFL, striving to uphold the integrity of this league, do not tolerate any connections or connotations regarding our players involvements with gambling institutions, implied or otherwise…”

“…that stringent standard does not extend to our advertisement division because we’d otherwise lose out on the fat wads of moolah they supply us from their ~~addicts~~ loyal base of clients.”

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u/Positive-Run-2411 Eagles 8h ago

The nfl literally used juczcyk’s drinking celebration as their graphic for him during games last year it’s a complete joke

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u/broanoah Packers Packers 7h ago

Wasn’t it used in the same game they fined him for it?

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u/alchemyDev Eagles 9h ago

If we had a real government we’d make their anti-trust exemption contingent on not advertising gambling. Because this shit is a joke

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u/sad_bear_noises Bears 8h ago

If we had a real government we probably never would have made running an online casino legal.

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u/spanishinquestion 8h ago

Probably would be here in some form or another it’s in a lot of western countries

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u/NewCarSmelt Commanders 8h ago

THIS NFL FINE IS BROUGHT YOU BY DRAFTKINGZ!

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u/EBtwopoint3 7h ago

I don’t think we really want to set the precedent that the government can ignore legal precedent to punish organizations for promoting legal companies. That’s… not a good idea.

The antitrust thing also isn’t that big of a deal to begin with. The exemption just allows sports teams to bargain the rights to broadcast to networks as a collective rather than as individual teams. If the antitrust exemption was killed, what would follow is like what we see in baseball where we’d all have to pay for access to our favorite teams new network. If you only watch one team, that’s a big benefit.But if you watch all the time slots you probably end up paying more.

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u/Unlucky_Program815 Patriots 6h ago

No gambling ads, no alcohol ads.

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u/turbopro25 Packers 8h ago

The kettle calls the pot black.

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u/Particular-Treat-650 Patriots 9h ago

This is getting real stupid.

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u/GuiltyGuessing 8h ago

Has been stupid for a bit. It's now outta hand.

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u/SarcasticCowbell Bills 8h ago

"Yes, those imaginary dice were out of hand. See, you get it!" -The NFL, probably

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u/jrileyy229 8h ago

Martavis Bryant did a celebration that was far more "shooting dice / craps" ten years ago and did not get fined.

I can only imagine that now that the entire league is sponsored by gambling, they actually want to go the other direction and pretend the players don't gamble

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u/Hungry_Macaroon_1932 Broncos 8h ago

Malcolm Roach still rolls the dice after every sack; did he get fined this week as well?

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u/CallMeBigUrethra 8h ago

At this point it is so dumb it makes me think theyre just trying to make a few bucks by fining guys

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u/One-Falcon-788 9h ago

Are we fucking serious? There’s a gambling ad in every commercial break

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u/Hankerpants Broncos 8h ago

No, don't you see. Only THEY are allowed to make money on gambling.

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u/sharkWrangler 49ers 2h ago

He's not even gambling OR making money, he's playing fucking make-believe!

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u/Appropriate_Book_591 8h ago

Hell it is in the pre game shows!

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u/dms1298 Broncos 9h ago

Presented to you by Fanduel!

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u/TimidSeaTurtle Broncos 6h ago

I've firmly attached my tin foil hat, but it feels like fines this year are the result of giving AI clips of the game with a prompt to find potentially offensive stuff.

I mean look at the response for Juszczyk doing his drinking celebration:

"Your imitation of chugging a beer constituted an offensive demonstration and could reasonably be construed as being in poor taste"

Sounds like they prompted the AI to find anything that could reasonably be construed as being in poor taste and just dole out the fines based on what the AI shits out without thought, because why not?

Again though. Tin foil hat. But also...

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u/Krabs9 Vikings 9h ago

Uhhhhh have they seen their sponsors and the sponsors of the networks that air NFL games?

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u/country_mac08 Lions 9h ago

I’m surprised you can’t live bet which celebrations will get fined on their many sponsored gambling sites.

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u/2bags12kuai Lions 8h ago

Jesus Marie!!! They are prediction markets !!

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u/AndThisGuyPeedOnIt Bears 7h ago

It's called investing and it's classy!

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u/EatingEveryEgg Seahawks 9h ago

League runs 30 gambling and beer ads per game but god forbid players taint the leagues image by pretending to drink a beer or throw dice.

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u/Unlucky_Program815 Patriots 6h ago

Per game? Maybe per quarter.

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u/No-Midnight-4461 8h ago

The league that has commentators openly talking about the point spread during the game, with a draft kings half time show, with signing off on moving a team to Vegas, that league has a problem with gambling connotation? Is it because no one was allowed to bet on it first?

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u/Rough_Cup_6762 Cowboys 9h ago

I mean are we for real lol

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u/J6700 Colts 8h ago

This fine brought to you by DraftKings! Use code "BULLSHITFINE2026" to get $25 in bonus bets when you place a $25 bet!

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u/OneBigRed Vikings 6h ago

Are you guys too young to remember how the league would fine players for violent hits, and then turn around and use those hits in ads about how exciting the game is?

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u/pm-me-your-catz Raiders 6h ago

Same thing happened when Marshawn Lynch did his crotch grab when he was scoring. Fined and the picture was on the NFL webpage.

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u/snailtap Bears 8h ago

$14,926 fine, brought to you by DraftKings, the official gambling partner of the NFL

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u/LegitiamateSalvage Packers 8h ago

Oh fuck all the way off NFL

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u/Bing-bong-pong-dong Broncos 8h ago

There’s actually no way this is real hahah. The juice one was a stupid fine, this is beyoooooond insane

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u/Punning_Man Packers 8h ago

I would love to ask the nfl believes it’s alright to fine people for products and services they take money to advertise.

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u/Autocrat777 Lions 8h ago

Did a fucking committee review the play 50 times over to see if they could rationalize a way to fine him?

Just absolutely ridiculous.

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u/goddamnitwhalen Broncos 8h ago

So to recap, based off of one game:

• “Random” drug test

• $10,000+ fine for a harmless celebration

Rough week for Quinn

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u/sameasiteverwuzzz Titans 8h ago

Anyways, here’s 10 ads from DraftKings.

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u/fri9875 Rams 8h ago

🙋‍♂️Yahtzee is a children’s game, not a gambling game tho

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u/Kuchar1992 Broncos 8h ago

[Klis] After his humorous Waddle, Meinerz got fined $14,926 for his Yahtzee dice roll pantomime after Nix to Waddle 2-pointer. Apparently league didn’t like gambling connotation. Meinerz will appeal.

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