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00:03 And not a happy 2023 NFL season and maybe beyond for the Carolina Panthers.
00:08 A two win football team with the number one overall pick in Bryce Young.
00:13 The worst record in all of the National Football League.
00:15 They fired their head coach Frank Reich after only 11 games.
00:20 And then on Sunday, in a loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars,
00:23 David Tepper, the owner of Carolina, tossed a drink onto a fan.
00:29 He was fined $300,000 yesterday by the NFL League office.
00:34 His response, I am deeply passionate about this team and
00:38 regret my behavior on Sunday.
00:41 I should have let the NFL stadium security handle any issues that arose.
00:45 I respect the NFL's code of conduct and
00:48 accept the league's discipline for my behavior, end quote.
00:52 Rick, what is the punishment?
00:54 What is the reaction among the NFL League office and
00:57 other owners of Tepper's behavior?
00:59 >> Well, first of all, there is now a mandate at Bank of America Stadium that
01:06 there will be raincoats issued for the first row right below the suite.
01:10 At least for the first six games until the team can actually be competitive again.
01:16 Owners are incredibly intense and passionate, they all are.
01:20 They choose to show it in different ways.
01:23 One of the things that I do with the owners that I know is that I wish them
01:29 a happy season and I do it at the beginning of every season, game one.
01:35 Cuz I don't wanna deal with the half of the owners that lost day one and
01:39 every week, half of them are really, really, really upset.
01:43 And there's a cooling off period.
01:44 If they weren't passionate, these guys are, they'll do it for the money,
01:47 obviously, but it's a significant investment.
01:50 They wanna hand it down to their kids and
01:51 stop making excuses for a guy who, by the way,
01:54 is more accurate with the glass than his quarterback was for
01:57 the last five weeks of the NFL.
01:59 But they've gotta figure out how to control behavior and show it internally.
02:05 So go into the bathroom and
02:07 throw a glass of water on your face yourself or something.
02:10 But there's temper, you get carried away with it.
02:15 If you and I were fined $300,000 for throwing something on somebody,
02:20 we'd never have any dollars to spend anywhere.
02:22 So it's a fairly significant, here it is and here's what we're doing.
02:27 We'll just have to see how it plays out long term.
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