We may not know exactly why Seahawks wide receiver Doug Baldwin chose to celebrate his Super Bowl touchdown by feigning dropping his pants and and other things, but knowledge of the motive wasn’t necessary to make an educated guess about the league’s response.
Baldwin and everyone else familiar with the NFL knew that Baldwin would be getting fined by the league for pretending to defecate a football in the end zone. On Wednesday, we got news of that fine.
Mike Garafolo of FOX Sports reports that Baldwin’s going to be out $11,025 for what the league deemed an obscene gesture. Baldwin, who was also penalized 15 yards for his scatological celebration, said Tuesday that he had no regrets.
“No,” Baldwin said, via the Everett Herald. “I was just out there having fun playing the game of football. There’s no explanation. You play this game for so long, you go out there and you have fun. I can get criticized for it, that’s fine, everybody has their opinion, but in the moment I was just having fun. My teammates know that. Ultimately the only the people I have to apologize to are my teammates and coaches, if that was the case, but my teammates and coaches, they know. They didn’t say anything. That’s not even an issue. We lost the game, there are so many other things to be concerned with that something stupid like that.”
There may be other fines handed out as a result of the scuffle near the end of the game that led to Seahawks linebacker Bruce Irvin’s ejection.