If players are allowed to appeal fines and/or suspensions, then I think NFL clubs should be entitled to that same liberty, and the recent salary cap penalties against DAL and WAS are a textbook example of why. If this doesn't look like retroactive ******** punishment, then I don't know what is! If the league had a problem with those frontloaded contracts, then why didn't they punish those 2 teams in 2010 right when they happened instead of approving those contracts, then doing a 180 two years after the fact and say "oh, DAL and WAS cheated by violating the spirit of the salary cap, even though we can't even prove that they broke the letter of it"?