NFL Denies DeAngelo Williams Request of Wearing Pink Year Round

 

The cause is near and dear to Pittsburgh Steelers running back DeAngelo Williams' heart, because he lost his mother Sandra Hill in May 2014 and four aunts all to the disease. That's horrible, so you can see why Williams would prefer to raise breast cancer awareness throughout the year — not just in October.

 

The NFL isn't cool with that.

 

As Lisa Salters first reported during the Monday Night Football broadcast of the Steelers' 24-20 win over the San Diego Chargers — and soon relayed by ESPN colleague Field Yates on Twitter — Williams' request to wear pink throughout the season was denied by the NFL. That would of course be a violation of the league's 31-page outline on equipment rules and would carry a $5,787 fine for a first offense.

Of course they don't. I've always thought that.

 

The only reason they do the pink during October is to sell more merchandise to women. That's it.

Everyone knows the NFL Breast Cancer Awareness is a scam. Problem is that if they allowed it, it'd be a very slippery slope when it comes to their whole uniform policy.

It stinks, but I get it. Whether players like it or not they are still an employee of the NFl. The NFL has a corporate responsibility and is under no obligation to let players take on their own individual cause(s).

Ive always thought it was nothing more than a money grab by the merchandisers.

I think we had a similar thread on the subject last year. I think we are all in agreement that the NFL is only interested in the almighty $

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the NFL can't do anything about the pink in his hair.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the NFL can't do anything about the pink in his hair.

His interview last night, he said as much and chose that to honor that awareness without retribution from the league, unless I misunderstood.

It's really no different than no allowing Jim McMahon to wear a Roos headband or ensuring everyone keeps their socks pulled up and pads tucked in...it's a uniform policy that they have pretty strictly always enforced. No individualism in anyway as afar as uniforms go.

Side note: Everyone should consider where their donations go. The Komen group is not great at using the money for research.

 

Better than nothing but...

This is going to read as insensitive but it is not meant to be. Where do you stop with the "awareness" uniform symbols? You have a month for this, a month for that, a day for this, a week for that, a ribbon for that, a sticker for this, an arm band here, etc. Really where does this stop? Eventually you'll have all this stuff on a uniform that looks like a billboard. I think these causes can be overwhelming with regards to displays. Just an opinion.

Ive always thought it was nothing more than a money grab by the merchandisers.

 

And this is not confined to the NFL. Breast Cancer "awareness" has become a big business.

This looks bad. But it is funny how some of you were taking the schools side in another thread over not wearing a military logo that honored his family and now because the NFL is an easy target take the exact opposite stance.

This looks bad. But it is funny how some of you were taking the schools side in another thread over not wearing a military logo that honored his family and now because the NFL is an easy target take the exact opposite stance.

 

My whole premise is they act like they care about a certain cause, but in reality they don't give a crap about breast cancer, just money.

 

As for the other thread, the major difference is they broke the rule and people don't feel they should've been punished. If Williams were to ignore the NFLs policy, he'd deserve the fine he'd get and I'd side with them on enforcing it.

I think it's dumb that they wear it at all.