NFL Tells RGIII Not To Wear 'Jesus' Shirt For Press Conference

[green73]

I'm sure if the shirt had celebrated the god of the state there'd have been no problem at all. Maybe a formation of fighter jets $#@!ting out contrails of red white and blue.

Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III was reportedly told by an NFL uniform inspector not to wear his “Know Jesus, Know Peace” t-shirt before Sunday’s postgame press conference.

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/...ss-conference/

[GunnyFreedom]

Yet another reason to avoid anything NFL like the plague.

[GunnyFreedom]

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/...ss-conference/

Is it just me, or are more and more outlets disabling comments? Actual public opinion too embarrassing for the M$M?

[jkr]

heres a BIG FU to the no fun league!
what an excellent MORAL example!
beat girl=ok
stab people=ok

be AROUND pot= no-go
like teh JESUS= no-ok

and they pretend to be "role models"???

4 WHAT!??!


WELL AT LEAST WE KNOW WHERE THEY STAND

[GunnyFreedom]

I really wanted to read comments on that article. it would be fascinating to learn where the 'general public' stands on this.

[robert68]

Is it just me, or are more and more outlets disabling comments? Actual public opinion too embarrassing for the M$M?

Check again.

[William Tell]

Is it just me, or are more and more outlets disabling comments? Actual public opinion too embarrassing for the M$M?

click the view comments tab.

[heavenlyboy34]

I haven't paid attention to NFL, NBA, MLB, etc for many years. Don't most of the athletes wear religious jewelry regularly (crucifix necklaces, etc)? IIRC, it used to be common.

[GunnyFreedom]

Check again.

click the view comments tab.

that tab may not be enabled for the mobile site, and they give no option to display the full site. I will keep looking. :-/

[GunnyFreedom]

Nope. Definitely no comments on the mobile version, and no way to switch to full.

[thoughtomator]

heres a BIG FU to the no fun league!
what an excellent MORAL example!
beat girl=ok
stab people=ok

be AROUND pot= no-go
like teh JESUS= no-ok

and they pretend to be "role models"???

4 WHAT!??!


WELL AT LEAST WE KNOW WHERE THEY STAND

Don't forget, it's very likely that Ray Lewis is a cold-blooded murderer, yet they made a bronze statue of him outside an NFL stadium.

[HOLLYWOOD]

$10 BILLION / year

NON-PROFIT NFL JINGOISM PROPAGANDA CIRCUS

[phill4paul]

If he doesn't like it he can always get a job playing football somewhere else. Employer rights and such. Blah, blah, blah.

[heavenlyboy34]

If he doesn't like it he can always get a job playing football somewhere else. Employer rights and such. Blah, blah, blah.

Interesting the things people choose to be angered and outraged about, isn't it?

[devil21]

Is it just me, or are more and more outlets disabling comments? Actual public opinion too embarrassing for the M$M?

Yeah it's not you. Comment sections are being eliminated all over the place. You're not missing much in the comment section of that article though. Typical left/right paradigm crap and muslim bashing, etc.

[CPUd]

They are not allowed to wear clothing with personal messages in the postgame press conference. It's part of their contract with Nike, but guys are always trying to get around it. The NFL is definitely more strict on the rule with high-profile players like RGIII. It probably didn't help that the lettering is done in a similar fashion as some Nike t-shirts.

[Jackie Moon]

They are not allowed to wear clothing with personal messages in the postgame press conference. It's part of their contract with Nike, but guys are always trying to get around it. The NFL is definitely more strict on the rule with high-profile players like RGIII. It probably didn't help that the lettering is done in a similar fashion as some Nike t-shirts.

I actually thought it was a Nike shirt before I read what it said.

Yeah, it doesn't seem like it has to do with that specific message, just the rule against personal messages in general.

“Throughout the period on game-day that a player is visible to the stadium and television audience (including in pregame warm-ups, in the bench area, and during postgame interviews in the locker room or on the field), players are prohibited from wearing, displaying, or otherwise conveying personal messages either in writing or illustration, unless such message has been approved in advance by the League office.”

Also the part about them only being allowed to wear Nike:

In December 2012, Griffin was fined $10,000 by the league for wearing Adidas at his postgame press conference.

The NFL has always been really strict with their dress code.

Frank Gore was fined $10,500 for wearing his socks too low in this game:



And Brian Urlacher was fined $100,000 for wearing a VitaminWater hat during Super Bowl media day:

[pessimist]

I actually thought it was a Nike shirt before I read what it said.

Yeah, it doesn't seem like it has to do with that specific message, just the rule against personal messages in general.



Also the part about them only being allowed to wear Nike:



The NFL has always been really strict with their dress code.

Frank Gore was fined $10,500 for wearing his socks too low in this game:

And Brian Urlacher was fined $100,000 for wearing a VitaminWater hat during Super Bowl media day:

Yep. This had nothing to do with religion.

Remember Tebowmania from a few years ago?

[oyarde]

I haven't paid attention to NFL, NBA, MLB, etc for many years. Don't most of the athletes wear religious jewelry regularly (crucifix necklaces, etc)? IIRC, it used to be common.

When I played Soccer , jewelry was forbidden , but I wore a necklace while playing football , running track , cross country and playing baseball.

[Nirvikalpa]

What's the issue here? Nike conference. Not Nike shirt.

People making something out of nothing.

[RJB]

My grandfather always used to grumble that he wouldn't watch a bunch of so called men get paid millions to play a kids game.

When I was young, I thought that was a pretty unpatriotic way to think against the city of St. Louis. You don't diss the Cardinals.

I've turned into the same grumpy old man.

[Anti Federalist]

(the) NFL is nothing other than a corporatist appendage of the Warfare State. - Will Grigg

[Anti Federalist]

Yet another reason to avoid anything NFL like the plague.

Would Appointing a War Criminal as Commissioner Redeem the NFL?

William Norman Grigg

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/...edeem-the-nfl/

Former NFL star Ray Rice pleaded guilty of abusing a woman whom he later married, and was fired by the League after a video of the crime was made public.

Former Secretary of State Condolezza Rice was an architect of an illegal war of aggression that resulted in the slaughter of a half-million people, the displacement of millions more, trillions of dollars in debt, and the creation of a nihilistic terrorist group that has now been designated our existential threat du jour. She is a war criminal who remains impenitent despite abundant proof of the crimes to which she is a party.

The NFL is seeking to rehabilitate its public reputation amid accumulating scandals. This inspired Beltway scribe Susan Milligan to propose that the League could redeem itself by replacing “one Rice with another” – that is, firing incumbent NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and hiring War Criminal Condi Rice as his successor.

Stalin famously said that one death is a tragedy, but a million deaths is a statistic. In contemporary America, one domestic violence incident in which the victim survived constitutes a career-ending scandal, but helping to orchestrate the murder of 500,000 foreigners is a glorious patriotic accomplishment.

Installing Rice as NFL Commissioner would usefully demolish any pretense that the NFL is something other than a corporatist appendage of the Warfare State.

[pessimist]

Of course the NFL is pro-war. It's a sport for real men.

War metaphors galore.

Didn't George Carlin cover this with his Football vs Baseball bit?