Argos' Murphy fined for tawdry tweets

The Canadian Football League fined Toronto Argonauts offensive lineman Rob Murphy an undisclosed sum for a series of tawdry Twitter posts made during the team's train ride to Montreal on Wednesday.

Using the handle BIGMURPH56, Murphy commented about "smelling foreigners this early in the A.M." and that the "novelty of riding on a train thru Ontario and 'Frenchland' has worn out." 

Though he later apologized in another posting — "Obviously my recent tweets have gotten blown out of proportion. I'm sorry if I offended anyone by my recent comments. I was JOKING around" — the CFL didn't see it that way.

"The commissioner [Mark Cohon] found the comments inappropriate and offensive and are not to be tolerated," the league said in a statement. "The player has been fined under our social media policy."

The policy states that any postings will be treated as public comments and are therefore subject to discipline.

Murphy also removed the tweets in question from his account.