NFL Nixes Rumors of Fines, Will Allow Players to Wear Special 9/11 Gear
- Posted on September 9, 2011 at 7:42pm by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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Chicago Bears linebacker tweeted this photo Thursday of patriotic gear he received to wear this weekend.
After reports circulated that NFL players could be hit with fines this weekend for wearing “unauthorized” patriotic gear to honor the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the league confirmed that players will be allowed to wear special red, white and blue shoes and gloves.
“NFL confirmed to clubs this morning that players may wear special shoes & gloves from NFL licensees for Week 1 games,” NFL Vice President of Football Communications Michael Signora wrote on Twitter Friday afternoon.
The NFL has strict rules about game-day attire, and any unauthorized uniform alteration can lead to steep fines.
Rumors of possible fines lit up on Twitter Thursday, after players including Chicago Bears linebacker Lance Briggs posted about receiving “Never Forget” gloves and shoes from Reebok:
For the anniversary of 9/11 game why is it if I wear shoes and gloves that are the colors of r nations flag..I will be fined by the league
Reebok great job on these gloves and shoes..looks like I’m getting fined this week. Lol!
By far the best fine I will ever have to pay. Thanks
Fines for gloves could be as much as 5k..the shoes 8-10k I think. not 100% on the shoe fine.
Tennessee Titans Quarterback Matthew Hasselbeck tweeted this photo of his commemorative cleats.
Tennessee Titans Quarterback Matthew Hasselbeck tweeted a photo of his cleats and said he planned to wear them for the game and then donate them to a charity for wounded veterans.
Kansas City Chiefs Jamaal Charles tweeted this photo of his 9/11 commemorative gear.
Kansas City Chiefs running back Jamaal Charles also wrote about receiving gear from Reebok:
I Have some commemorative 9/11 gloves & cleats for the weekend game.. That #reebok made me. I never forget.
According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, several Chargers players received the gear but were warned by Reebok officials that it was not authorized by the NFL.
The paper reported at least one Chargers player said he would risk the fine and wear the cleats.
The NFL provides pink apparel, including shoes, for players to wear to support breast cancer awareness in October.
In addition to special gloves and shoes, sideline personnel will wear commemorative pins, and players will wear a red, white and blue patch below their jersey collars in the shape of ribbon.
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Comments (48)
MUDFLAPS
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 3:09pmExcept for the New York Yankees, Mets,Giants, Nets etc. Bloomturd is such an A hole.
Report Post »Lucky Strikes
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 11:20amBY GOD, THEY SHOULD ALLOW THEM!!!!! Then they can auction off the gear and donate the money.
Report Post »jcldwl
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 8:43amWe have to be distracted by the ridiculousness of players wearing pink for the entire month of October and the league actually considered not allowing players to wear the commemorative apparel for one game on the anniversary of the worst attack on our country in history. I knew my decision to quit subscribing to NFL Sunday Ticket was the right thing to do. I applaud all the players that were willing to risk the fine. Thanks guys.
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 7:09amWhy send patriotic wear to a Chicago Bear? It’s Chicago, the town that gave us Obama, the traitor.
Report Post »waymoregooder
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 7:31amthat is funny…thanks for the laugh!
Report Post »IRISHBLOODAMERICANSOUL
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 6:57amThe NFL is like every other corporation theyre not about patriotism theyre about the business of making money any tid bit that disrupts their greed is attacked with prejudice, until of course people get off their collective butts and change the rules of business where businesses they have to conform or lose there customers, like dr. pepper and pepsi a few years back refused to show patriotism on thier cans, and told the american people if they don’t like drink something else… well americans did along with writing their respective business, both dr. pepper and pepsi changed their tune quick with being faced with an all out boycott where as coke was more than happy to oblige the coming soft drink shortage.
Report Post »BBomber66
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 5:26amRemember the Paul Revere didn’t shout his warning. He went to select houses because may along the route were Loyalists. Shouting and awaking the countryside would have aroused them, as well. We are now in another era of having to pick and choose whom we support. I’m behind the CEO of Gibson Guitars who is being harrassed by the DOJ. Other guitar makers are democrats and the DOJ ignores them for doing business just like Gibson.
Report Post »LinkedIn G
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 1:12amNEVER FORGET
Report Post »They wouldn‘t have manufactured this equipment if the players weren’t allow to wear them.
ThankBabyJesus
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 11:57pmOur Founders rolling in their graves. Someday we will look back at this and realize that there was once a time and crime to be proud of our country.
Report Post »manster35
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 11:33pmI hope the Cowboys and Jets game is awash in RED WHITE AND BLUE.. The NFL needs to allow the show of colors all they can for all these weekends games.
Report Post »tcharleyd
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 12:05amWould love if Dallas came out with their old helmets with the red, white, and blue striping down the center that they wore one year way back when!
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 6:59amIt would sure beat the pink they all wear on “politically correct token diseas, we want women fans weekend”.
Report Post »JustJP
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 11:10pmFocus polls are the death of common sense.
Report Post »ezeewhiz
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 10:59pmHad about as much of this politcal correct BS one man can stand. If we as Americans can’t show our respect and honor those that lost their lives on this day, then what’s left of America? We can’t say Merry Christmas any more, God is a no go, what has this country become? Is globalization a code word for de-amercanizing America?
Report Post »AmerNDN10
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 10:34pmThis NFL stinks anymore. Makes football less fun. Too many rules regulations and just stupid crap like this. Is it ran by a Hilter type? I am lead to believe someone commie like is running the NFL. Too many legal jerky issues.
Report Post »let us prey
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 8:07amGoodell is a dictator type and the players are prima donnas. Money driven business and union influence has made me lose most of my interest. These guys choose to play this game and then whine and cry when things dont go their way.
Report Post »kentuckypatriot
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 8:28am@ LET US PREY:
Report Post »I love your picture ID. I assume you got it off the net, but where, if I may ask? I’d love to use it as my desk top. Thanks!
let us prey
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 2:04pmKentuckypatriot
Report Post »I laughed so hard when I saw this.
Type in george and the dummy in a search engine and go to images. It should come up for you.
Be safe man.
mikenleeds
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 9:47pmi don t need your permission to wear so called special gear … i can wear anything i wanted printed on my gear as long as it meet regs….
that s just messed up when you need special permission to represent God or love for America
Report Post »BubbaT
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 9:41pmRight on! Finally, some sanity.
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 9:18pmI wonder which NFL star will wear a garment that says “Building What?”
Report Post »SIXFRIGATES
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 9:16pmThis is YAHOO!’s fault. They ran a story about it and had thousands of comments under the assumption that it was real.. YAHOO! has been the worst in the last few months as far as journalism goes. They have run nothing but irrelevant, late, outdated or flatout untrue stories. They need to be set straight.
Report Post »TroyBray
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 9:29pmUnfortunately, my e-mail is @yahoo, so I get to see their news page every time I get on. You are absolutely right about their horrendous news reporting. You are absolutely wrong about “something needing to be done.” That smacks of government intervention, and i can’t support that. They will wither on the vine if they can’t report the truth, so let the market decide.
Report Post »South Philly Boy
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 8:51pmExcelent
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 8:34pmALL RIGHT, NFL!!!!
Thank you, manufacturers. We wish you all were back home where you belong where women and children are NOT the slave labor for the fat cats in foreign lands. Come home. KICK DOWN THE D*** DOOR!” like Bum Phillips once said a long time ago.
GO, AMERICA. This is OUR LAND, OUR GAME, OUR BATTLE. If the rest of you namby pamby countries want to wimp out, shame on you!
By the GRACE OF GOD ALMIGHTY AMERICA WILL WIN THIS GAME!
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 8:53pmAs a matter of fact, Reebok or whoever made the gear, I would like to buy some of those shoes to wear (much smaller size, however). Since we are at war with the enemy at home, I’d be proud to wear those shoes `til I wear them out.
You guys bring your businesses back to the USA, and I bet you would make a million real fast….
Report Post »Oznogs
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 8:29pmI am glad that some of the players will auction off the stuff after for vetrans charities. As for Reebok I am not sure where there stuff was manufactured, but I am sure the workers were aware of what 9/11 is all about. As for victims families, Anne Coulter got into it a while back about three widows that were out cashin in on victimhood, but you have to figure there are always a few bad apples in any group. There are a few trolls around here as well, probably paid trolls from media matters or some other Soros funded outfit.
“Quando omni flunkus moritati”
Report Post »godhatesacoward
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 8:57pmFor this instance, it is not about where said articles are made, it’s about the message. 99% of viewers will see the message not the “made in label”.
Report Post »godhatesacoward
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 9:00pmand yes I totally agree about the auction! GOD BLESS OUR VETS AND GOD BLESS AMERICA!
Report Post »godhatesacoward
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 8:22pmEveryone in the nfl should be sporting gloves, cleats, etc. Because only in America could one make as much money as these guys do to play a GAME. GOD BLESS AMERICA!
Report Post »saranda
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 8:31pmOr in Europe playing soccer.
Report Post »Oznogs
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 8:59pmOr playing Hockey! Except the Brits they play cricket, wonder why they don’t play hockey there? They get snow.
Report Post »Any_One_But_Obama
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 8:20pmI WAS HOPING THEY WOULDN’T BE LIKE MSNBC…
Remember they removed ‘Under God’ from the Pledge of Allegiance during the U.S. Open Presentation: http://tiny.cc/s4eth.
And two things that are close to my heart are GOD and the AMERICAN FLAG. Remove either one and I will be up in arms, no I don’t mean with guns… at first.
Report Post »nannyatnannydotgov
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 8:19pmGot your head down your foxhole? Well, I guess some humbleness is required to understand. I’m sorry for you that lack that virtue.
Report Post »Amma K
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 8:05pmFoxholeatheist and exrepublsheep – two very sad and pathetic people!!
Report Post »YepImaConservative
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 8:08pmMust be Liberals and/or libertarians.
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 8:11pm@AMMA K I was being serious. The article states Reebok so I looked it up. Reebok uses footwear factories in 14 countries. Most factories making Reebok footwear are based in Asia — primarily China (accounting for 51% of total footwear production), Indonesia (21%), Vietnam (17%) and Thailand (7%). Production is consolidated, with 88% of Reebok footwear manufactured in 11 factories, employing over 75,000 workers.
Report Post »kevjminn
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 8:40pmWhy? Those numbers are true.
Report Post »kevjminn
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 8:42pm@YEPIMACONSERVATIVE
Libertarians are the ONLY TRUE conservatives. Republicans are “progressive lite”.
Report Post »YepImaConservative
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 8:59pmLol, yeah right… smoke some more pot Neo-Liberal.
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 7:54pmWill the gear be made by the Chinese?
Report Post »FoxholeAtheist
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 7:50pm“You know it took me about a year to start hating the 9-11 victims’ families? Took me about a year. And when I see a 9-11 victim family on television, or whatever, I’m just like, “Oh shut up!” I‘m so sick of them because they’re always complaining.”
Report Post »YepImaConservative
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 8:01pmA FOXHOLEATHEIST? Hmmmmm, is that just a metaphor for one‘s head buried deep inside one’s rectum?
You know, when you come close to death as an ATHEIST, the only option you have is to stick yer head between yer legs, get your lips puckered… and kiss yer arse goodbye right?
The rest of us move on leaving you in the dust.
Report Post »Steverino
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 8:09pmFHA-
Report Post »Where on Earth is that from?
GAMom77
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 8:45pmGee, only read part of your post and yet it only took me about fifteen seconds to pray for your soul, Foxholeatheist.
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