Jim Mora
Late in the 2005 season during an overtime game, the Falcons head coach didn't know how a tie would affect his team's playoff chances. So he did what any teenage girl would do: whipped out his cell phone! The problem? You guessed it. This violated a league rule (not to mention his "anytime" minutes), and Mora was fined a whopping $25,000.

Zeke Mowatt
Ah, 1990. It was a simpler time, a time when the Panthers and Jaguars didn't even exist and tight ends were named Zeke. It was also when five Patriots (led by Mowatt) were fined $12,500 for sexually harassing Boston Herald sportswriter Lisa Olson after approaching her in the locker room seminaked. (We're optimists, so we like to think of them as semiclothed.)

Mike Tice
Every year, all NFL coaches are given an allotment of Super Bowl tickets. But, apparently, only one is dumb enough to get caught selling them to a California ticket agency. That honor goes to former Vikings coach Mike Tice, who, after getting busted, admitted, "I probably shouldn't have sold my tickets." And he said that before he was fined 100 grand!

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Chad Johnson

Ocho Cinco is back on our list, this time for being nicknamed "Ocho Cinco." Back before a game against the Falcons (and back in his classic blond Mohawk days), Chad covered up the boring "C. Johnson" on his jersey with a Velcro nameplate that read "Ocho Cinco." The uniform police were none too pleased and fined him five large.