Football

first of all. You don't necessarily have to collect the fines, but you must document the team rule-breaking. We don't know that the Raiders were going to make him pay. Bailing on practice without team permission cause you don't like your new (safe) helmet? Waaaaah! You SHOULD be fined for that.

Secondly, you can't just exclude one guy from the same discipline the rest of the team has to face cause he's a star & diva, doing that is very bad for team unity, corrosive you might say.

Thirdly, fines are part of the game, players should accept them when they miss practices and meetings that are mandatory.

Brown, instead of sucking it and taking it like a man, took it up with the GM (Mayock) on the practice field, in front of his teammates, and threatened to punch Mayock in the face over them, and had to be pulled away from him by his teammates.

It's been said he even called him 'Cracker', not sure if that's true but the threat is bad enough.

That pretty much tells you right there ... this guys gotta go. Those fines were a test from Grudock to see if he had it in him to play by the same rules as his teammates, and he FAILED.

F*** that punk. He never really wanted to be a Raider, it was never gonna work out. Good riddance.