You may have read that the NFL absurdly and humorlessly fined Chad Ochocinco $20,000 for his joke of offering a one dollar bill to a referee during a replay challenge involving a catch he made.

While the bribe was clearly a joke under the circumstances, it got us to thinking…  had the referees in the Bengals’ game on Sunday been former NFL players from the 1960s, Ochocinco’s bribe of $1 may have actually been successful.