{"id":12632,"date":"2017-10-04T08:38:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T14:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=12632"},"modified":"2017-10-04T08:38:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T14:38:26","slug":"here-are-some-fun-facts-about-the-hypocrites-over-at-the-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=12632","title":{"rendered":"Here are some fun facts about the hypocrites over at the NFL."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8221;In 2012 the NFL had an issue with Tim Tebow kneeling for each game to pray, they also had an issue with Tebow wearing John <span data-term=\"goog_821212484\">3:16<\/span> as part of his blackout to avoid glare and made him take it off.<br \/>\nIn 2013 the NFL fined Brandon Marshall for wearing green cleats to raise awareness for people with mental health disorders&#8230;.<br \/>\nIn 2014 Robert Griffin III (RG3) entered a post-game press conference wearing a shirt that said &#8220;Know Jesus Know Peace&#8221; but was forced to turn it inside out by an NFL uniform inspector before speaking at the podium.<br \/>\nIn 2015 DeAngelo Williams was fined for wearing &#8220;Find the Cure&#8221; eye black for breast cancer awareness.<br \/>\nIn 2015 William Gay was fined for wearing purple cleats to raise awareness for domestic violence. (not that the NFL has a domestic violence problem&#8230;)<br \/>\nIn 2016 the NFL prevented the Dallas Cowboys from wearing a decal on their helmet in honor of 5 Dallas Police officers killed in the line of duty.<br \/>\nIn 2016 the NFL threatened to fine players who wanted to wear cleats to commemorate the 15th anniversary of 9\/11.<br \/>\nSo tell me again how the NFL supports free speech and expression?&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8221;In 2012 the NFL had an issue with Tim Tebow kneeling for each game to pray, they also had an issue with Tebow wearing John 3:16 as part of his blackout to avoid glare and made him take it off. In 2013 the NFL fined Brandon Marshall for wearing green cleats to raise awareness for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=12632\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Here are some fun facts about the hypocrites over at the NFL.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12633,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12632\/revisions\/12633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}