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Bud Adams Extends Buffalo a Triumphant Double Middle Finger Salute

Editor's note: If old men flipping the bird is highly offensive to you, skip this video.

There wasn't a turnbuckle and a can of beer involved, so you can't say Titans owner Bud Adams gave the full "Stone Cold" Steve Austin treatment (NSFW image) to Bills fans, but that's probably as close as you're going to get from the luxury suites. Late in Tennessee's 41-17 home win over Buffalo, the 86-year-old owner was spotted flipping both birds in the direction of the Bills bench, which is made doubly audacious by the fact that is was reported that he watched part of the game with Roger Goodell, who will undoubtedly be having words with Adams again very soon.

And while it's obvious that Adams is in need of some kind of reprimand for his actions, I'd argue you need something slightly more creative than merely a fine. If you think slapping a $10,000 fine on a player is easily ignored, just wait until you try it on an owner. How's about making him publicly apologize on the field next week in Houston, where Bud is already not the most popular guy in the world, having shanghaied their former franchise to Nashville.

UPDATE: Goodell laid a $250,000 fine on Adams, or $125K per finger.

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Yeah…WTF dude?  Because the Bills aren’t enough for us to swallow…now we are getting the bird from a man in his mid 80s. 

by t_durden_23 on Nov 16, 2009 12:10 PM EST reply actions  

I don’t get it, when M Vick did it years ago, he got rip, it was in every media’s out let and he was considered the worst person ever to live.  So this 80 yr old rich white guy does it, we only have one post and I am sure it will get swept under the table with a paltry fine.  America is so hyprocritical, it is not even funny.

by sportsguru on Nov 16, 2009 2:30 PM EST reply actions  

I don’t get it, when M Vick did it years ago, he got rip, it was in every media’s outlet and he was considered the worst person ever to live.  So this 80 yr old rich white guy does it, we only have one post and I am sure it will get swept under the table with a paltry fine.  America is so hyprocritical, it is not even funny.

by sportsguru on Nov 16, 2009 2:32 PM EST reply actions  

m. vick got ripped because people know who he is and it sold newspapers.  no one knows who this idiot is.

way to bring up race.  we dont need that here or anywhere else.
what was vicks punishment?  and did he not flip off his own fans?

but this was a pretty stupid move on bud adams part.

by dwb on Nov 16, 2009 2:40 PM EST reply actions  

Pretty audacious for the owner of a 2-7, badly underachieving football team.  Then again, he virtually flipped the bird to the entire city of Houston a number of years back.

by The Conndor on Nov 16, 2009 3:26 PM EST reply actions  

Yeah right, nobody knows who Bud Adams is (do you follow football at all) who has been owning this team well before Vick even got into the nfl.  I call it like it is, if you don’t like it, that is just too bad.  Treat everybody fairly and race won’t need to be brought up (coaches, owners and nfl players should have to play by the same rules).

Don’t nobody know who Bud Adams is is as redicolus as him flipping the fans off.  I wonder wihat the commissioner is going to do about this?

by sportsguru on Nov 16, 2009 5:55 PM EST reply actions  

250,000k.  what happened when vick did it?

ask any nfl fan somewhere around 25 and under who vick is and who bud adams is and i think you will see that i am right.

by dwb on Nov 16, 2009 7:00 PM EST reply actions  

vick was fined 10,000k

is that fair?

by dwb on Nov 16, 2009 7:10 PM EST reply actions  

america being hypocritical has nothing to do with this  .. sports guru  lets be honest the majority of everyday football fans have no idea who this guy is   mike vick was a high  profile nfl quarterback who im pretty sure every nfl fan knows …mike vick doing that was news…bud adams  doing it was just stupid  not news…  before people read this article most probably thought who the heck is bud adams   media outlets  cant make a big deal about a guy nobody cares about

by wwesoxfan on Nov 16, 2009 8:03 PM EST reply actions  

race has absolutly nothing to do with this   so please don’t try to make it seem like it does  because thats just ridiculous

by wwesoxfan on Nov 16, 2009 8:06 PM EST reply actions  

This is classic…is he a Bills fan ?  If I were there I’d be doing the same thing

by fbbf on Nov 17, 2009 1:49 PM EST reply actions  

Bud Adams is an idiot plain and simple…but I did read something very humorous. A Bills fan that said he did the same thing every Sunday from the comfort of his recliner…now that is funny!

by jefft02 on Nov 17, 2009 3:15 PM EST reply actions  

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