Cincinnati Bengals flamboyant wide receiver Chad Ochocinco was fined $20,000 by the league office for jokingly breaking out a dollar bill around an official during an instant-replay challenge, according to ESPN.

The NFL apparently didn't have a sense of humor about it, though.

And the league didn't like how Ochocinco used the word, bribe, during postgame interviews.

On video replay, the official seemed to be dismissive of Ochocinco's buck.

"I was just being me," Ochocinco said afterward. "I wasn't going to do it for real."

And now that $1 "bribe" has cost him 20,000 bucks.

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