From the moment video began to circulate on Sunday of Cowboys owner and G.M. Jerry Jones showing the New Jersey state bird to Jets fans at MetLife Stadium, it was obvious that the NFL would impose a financial punishment.

And Jones was fined $250,000 — despite his laughable claim that he meant to give a thumb’s up instead.

It happened sixteen years after the league fined the late Bud Adams, founder of the Oilers/Titans, the same amount for firing off a double-barreled middle finger during a game against the Bills.

Beyond Jones’s bizarre contention that his fingers essentially have a mind of their own (hey, who hasn’t accidentally flipped someone off when attempting to make a very different gesture?) is another strange-but-true fact. When Panthers owner David Tepper was caught o

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