It's bad enough Joey Porter is on pace to finish with a paltry six sacks, although he promises he's still capable of reeling off eight or nine more in a hurry.
"I've just got to cash in when I get the chance to cash in," Porter said Wednesday. "Ain't nothing happen to me. I'm still the same player. I'm going to be all right."
What's really got the Miami Dolphins linebacker upset is a $5,000 fine from the NFL's fashion police for not showing enough white on his game socks.
"That's what we're worried about," Porter said. "All the [stuff] that's going on in the game, and that's what we're worried about."
Porter, who plans to appeal, said he was never warned before or during the game in question: Week 6 against the Saints.
"You've got to tell me so I can fix it," he said. "You can't just fine me. You've got to give me a fix-it ticket. Even the police give you a fix-in ticket."
Typically, Porter said, a league representative will remind him to hike up his socks or lower his jersey after warm-ups, but that never happened on Oct. 25.
"They got these little knick knacks," he said of the NFL. "They try to find ways to get your money back. Now I've got to go appeal this. They're going to take it first. I might get it back five months from now."
