Lately, the NFL has been criticized heavily for choosing to fine players that wore pink in their uniform after the league’s window for acknowledging breast cancer awareness closed. Most notably, they fined Pittsburgh Steeler DeAngelo Williams for wearing “Find a Cure” messages on his eye black to pay respect to his mother, Sandra Hill, who lost her battle with breast cancer in 2014.
Today, however, the league will take a different approach to players that wish to pay respects, this time to the victims of the Paris Attacks, a series of terrorist shootings and bombings that devastated France on Friday evening.
.@RapSheet says players will be allowed to pay tribute to Paris victims without being subject to fines for violating NFL’s uniform policy.
— Chris Burke (@ChrisBurke_SI) November 15, 2015
It looks like Roger Goodell doesn’t want the French embassy on his head. Regardless, not a bad play by the controversial commissioner.
