You want bush league? How about Duron Carter's appeal for his suspension for an incident that took place on June 30th finally taking place this week.
The league punishing a team for cheating, breaking uniform rules, breaking stadium entrance rules etc is not bush league. Nor is fining a player for tweets that put the league in a bad light.
The only real issue here is how much they fined the Riders, although it sounds like it was the max allowed, and how long it took them to investigate. By all accounts they were aware of it. Should Bo be protected by some sort of whistleblower rule? Hard to say, was it actually his tweet that caused the CFL to investigate? Or was the fact that seemingly everyone already knew proof that the league probably knew themselves? We probably will never know. At the end of the day, unless Bo can prove he had previously reported it thru the proper channels first and then resorted to exposing it in the media, I think the fine is deserved.
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