No Joke: NFL Fines Bears' Conte $21k

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" This Thursday, Bears Safety Chris Conte nearly lost his mind.

That's the day he received a fine for $21,000 from the NFL league office for a hit on the Panther's Brandon LaFell. 

"At first I thought it was a prank," Conte said within earshot of Head Coach Lovie Smith in the hallways of Halas Hall.  

"It wasn't!" Smith yelled over.  

Conte knew his teammates weren't fooling on him, "I found out very quickly it wasn't a prank!

He also found out that it's a lot of money.

"It hurt's," he said "

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