Porter Still Facing Team/NFL Discipline

Steelers Assistant Coach Joey Porter will plead guilty to a disorderly conduct charge today. He was originally charged with much more serious crimes, one of which was a felony charge for aggravated assault. The citation Porter is pleading to carries up to 90 days in jail and a $500 fine for a finding of guilty. It seems unlikely, on the surface at least, that Porter will do any jail time. However, he does still face league, and the potential for team, discipline once his case has been resolved in the courts.

The NFL hasn’t been kind to coaches that were involved in embarrassing incidents tied to alcohol. In 2006, when they rarely disciplined players who were convicted of alcohol related…