NFL Needs to Get Their Priorities Straight

The NFL has now shown what it's most concerned about -- stopping endzone celebrations. Rather than fining Damione Lewis for his late hit on Donovan McNabb, they've instead fined six Eagles players $10,000 for a celebration after a Brent Celek touchdown reception.

When Celek scored, he handed the ball to center Jamaal Jackson, who spiked the ball with five other players surrounding him. When he did, the players all fell backwards. DeSean Jackson fell to the ground, but no one else did.

Apparently, that's what is worthy of a $10,000 fine.

However, they've determined that the hit on McNabb was perfectly legal, as reported earlier this week. Maybe I'm the only one who looks at that hit and sees a player intentionally landing on McNabb, and not a player simply carried by his own momentum.

Were he carried by his own momentum as the NFL found was the case, would he have been able to plant and cut towards McNabb in the endzone? I don't think that a man in excess of 300 pounds would be able to cut on a dime were it simply his own momentum carrying him.

This is an absolute travesty as far as I'm concerned, and is a case that should be pushed by the Eagles if nothing more than the principle of it.