Jameel McClain Gets Fined $40K for Doing His Best Impression of Spider-Man Villain Rhino

Funny, you would think if there was one Spider-Man villian Baltimore Ravens linebacker Jameel McClain would choose to emulate it would be the Vulture, but, alas, no. The only imitating of a vulture he did on the play, which saw Pittsburgh Steelers tight-end Heath Miller get concussed ,was in picking off defenseless prey. Truth be told, let's all be grateful that the concussion is all Miller suffered, because the slow-motion replay made it look like it could have been a whole lot worse.

As a result of his actions and incredible impersonation abilities, McClain, who also channeled Rhino's stupidity on the play perfectly, was fined $40,000 by the NFL on Monday night, one day after the Steelers beat him and his team 13-10, a game in which Pittsburgh quarterback Ben Roethlisberger led his team to victory playing on a broken foot, an injury the Steelers denied existed, saying it was just sprained. What's truly hilarious is that the team also denied he suffered a broken nose in the game, an end result for which Ravens nose-tackle Haloti Ngata was also fined $15,000 on Monday.

"It's not broken... it's just an optical illusion. In fact, this is all a dream and you're just imagining... screw it. Yeah, it's broken.

The official party line was that it was just bloody, which is about as bald-faced a lie as saying that the ground got in the way of Ravens QB Joe Flacco's last failed pass of the game. In any case, while it's easy to understand why the Steelers would lie about the foot (and not make it more of a target), it still remains a mystery as to why the team would deem it necessary not to call a spade a spade in regard to his clearly broken nose.

It's not as if his face would ever be as easily accessible as his foot to opponents. Really, even the hand rake that caused the fracture was about as isolated an incident as you can get, thanks to this new invention called a football helmet, with which the add-on face mask has been included for just the past 70 years or so.

In fact, looking at the footage, it's incredibly hard to pinpoint the exact point at which the nose gets broken, which I guess is fair considering it's a minor miracle McClain didn't break Miller's nose or worse on his hit. In the end, yeah, the Steelers got the last laugh, but nothing was really funny about the league having to hand down yet more supplementary discipline for hits to the head... even Flacco's pathetic last incomplete pass, even Roethlisberger's broken nose that maybe constitutes an improvement.