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SF 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has been fined $10,000 by the NFL for wearing a pair of pink Beats by Dre headphones (presumably for Breast Cancer Awareness Month) during a post-game press conference on Sunday. The National Football League recently signed an agreement with Bose that barred players and staff from wearing any other brand of headphones while on camera.
Kaepernick has an endorsement deal with Beats which comes into conflict with that agreement. The player declined to state whether the Apple-owned brand was picking up the tab for this infraction (and potentially others in the future).
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Who gets the money?
Probably the NFL. It was their deal that barred non-Bose headphones…
Forbidding the players to appear in public with other than approved headphone brand?
How Orwellian!!!
When did we lose the fundamental right to do what we want to wear. It’s against the free will.
When Bose started paying the NFL for exclusive appearances.
And he’s free to go work somewhere else, that allows him to wear them.
This is a bit dumb. The NFL is turning into the Galactic Empire. As Leia told Tarken, the more you tighten your grip, the more systems will slip through your fingers.
I get that Bose paid for being the official speakers of the NFL, but you can’t contril, what? About 1,700 players, when it comes to things that are illegal, much less what headphones they wear.
I’m not discounting the lunacy here – but the problem is not that he wears/uses Beats headphones – it’s that he did so at an NFL function (in other words, he was on the job, told what to wear/not wear – and he violated those rules – in my place of employment that’s a fire-able offense. If he was told not do to so in advance, and he did so anyway – they he pays the fine (or apple/beats does).
This does being up an interesting question though, how does an endorsement deal work when there are essentially two deals in conflict? Knowing how controlling the NFL is, I highly doubt they were out of the loop when Kaepernick signed the deal with Beats.
Ignore herb. He’s a known troll around here.
That sport is just dropping work greed, it’s disgusting.
bah… dripping with
Apple/Beats will be happy to reimburse.
Nice fake glasses…