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NFL prima Joe Mixon's wallet volition not beryllium $25,000 lighter.
The league overturned the good it antecedently handed down aft the Houston Texans moving backmost directed immoderate disapproval astatine the referees successful a playoff crippled past month.
The Texans suffered a 23-14 nonaccomplishment to the eventual AFC Champion Kansas City Chiefs connected Jan. 18. Mixon received the fine for his comments aft the crippled and aft the Texans' defence was penalized doubly for hits connected Chiefs backmost Patrick Mahomes.
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In a missive to Mixon, appeals serviceman Chris Palmer said during the proceeding process it was determined that Mixon "did not needfully publically knock the officials."
When asked astir the officiating aft the game, Mixon said, "Everybody knows however it is playing up here."
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"You tin ne'er permission it into the refs’ hands," Mixon said. "The full satellite sees, man, what it is. When it comes down to it, you tin ne'er permission it into the refs’ hands. It’s each good, though."
The missive added that "integrity of the crippled and its officials is the work of everyone progressive successful the NFL."
"During the entreaty hearing, you stated what you meant by your statements referring to the officials," Palmer said successful the letter. "As you know, statements tin beryllium interpreted otherwise by each idiosyncratic and it seems similar you intelligibly recognize the value and detriment of nationalist disapproval towards officials tin be, fixed however impactful your level is arsenic a player, which I appreciate."
Mixon was primitively fined for a remark erstwhile Cincinnati receiver T.J. Houshmandzadeh posted connected societal media.
"Why play the crippled if each 50/50 telephone goes with the Chiefs," Houshmandzadeh wrote connected X, formerly known arsenic Twitter, successful a amusement of his evident statement with the moving back.
The remark was incorrectly attributed to Mixon successful a Sports Illustrated story.
Later successful the day, helium was fined.
The NFL reissued the good for the comments Mixon really made. Sports Illustrated besides corrected the mistake wherever the remark connected X from Houshmandzadeh was attributed to him.
Mixon finished the divisional circular crippled against the Chiefs with 88 rushing yards. He appeared successful 14 regular-season games during his archetypal play with the Texans, rushing for 1,016 yards.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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