Chicago Bears Fined $2.7 Million For 76 Hits In Last Game

\"We hope this will deter these kinds of reckless hits from taking place out there,\" said Roger Goodell. \"To jump at a man and bring him down to the ground in such a hard fashion, it is just too dangerous. These \"tackles\" as they are known on the street, is not what the NFL is all about. I was at a peewee football game last week, and I saw a child attempt to do one of these tackle things. I mean, when our kids are doing it, we are in bad shape. If Dick Butkis was watching these games, he would be ashamed to see tackling out there on the field, because that is not what the game used to be about.\"