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The NFL has decided not to fine a team for NFL priors, something the League had been mulling over for a while now.

FOXSports.com has learned new league rules resulting in fines for clubs whose players are suspended for off-field violations begin June 1. But the NFL is pardoning franchises whose players’ legal problems occurred before then.

“The policy on club fines is being applied going forward (prospectively), not retroactively,” NFL spokesman Greg Aiello wrote in a Tuesday email. “The plan is that the club to be fined will be the club to which the player belonged at the time of the arrest or violation. But it only applies to arrests or violations occurring after June 1.”

The article points out that this is very good for teams like the Vikings, who had a boat sex scandal worth of violations, as well as the Bengals, who had, well, Chris Henry. And that’s enough violations in itself.