Tennessee Titans linebacker Avery Williamson planned on wearing a pair of specially-made 9/11 memorial cleats in the game, but was shot down by the un-American NFL.
Corrupt & Un-American NFL Rejects Player’s 9/11 Memorial Cleats
The Port Authority Police Benevolent Association said that they would pay any fine levied against Williamson by the corrupt NFL for wearing the 9/11 memorial cleats.
Very SAD!! The corrupt NFL is dead to me and most people I know.
Even as the NFL turns a blind eye to the lengthening list of players protesting America by refusing to stand for the national anthem, the league has decided to crack down on a player who announced his intention to wear cleats to memorialize the vicious terror attacks on September 11, 2001. Now a police union is vowing to pay the player’s NFL fine if he’ll wear them despite the league’s punishment.
The NFL has officially banned Tennessee Titans linebacker Avery Williamson from wearing cleats custom made as a memorial to the victims and first responders who fell in the line of duty during that terrible day on 9/11.
In response the disappointed Williamson announced that instead of wearing them during Sunday’s game with the Minnesota Vikings he would auction them off with the proceeds going to benefit Operation Warrior Wishes.
But after hearing of the NFL’s denial of Williamson’s request to honor the fallen, two police unions stepped forward pledging to pay what would be a $6,000 NFL fine if the player ignored the league’s demands and wore them anyway.
“We read, with understandable interest, [the Tennessean newspaper article] on Avery Williamson and the NFL’s stance on Avery honoring the September 11th victims,” Bobby Egbert, the public information officer for the Port Authority Police Benevolent Association, wrote to the newspaper. “We, along with the New Jersey State Police Benevolent Association, are offering to pay any reasonable fine levied by the NFL if Avery chooses to wear his 9/11 cleats.”
Egbert added, “The PAPD is the police department that has always patrolled the World Trade Center complex. On September 11, 2001, the PAPD lost 37 police officers at the World Trade Center, the largest, single loss ever suffered by a police department in the history of American law enforcement.”
For his part, the player said he doesn’t want to cause anyone any trouble and just wanted to do a nice thing for the country.
“I don’t want to draw negative attention, so I’m just going to focus on playing the game,” Williamson said of the ban on the cleats. “Once I heard from them, I didn’t even try to argue anything. I just left it alone. I didn’t want to press the issue.”
The shoes Williamson calls his “patriot cleats” are blue with red- and white-striped Nike swooshes featuring the words “Never Forget” and “9/11” on the back. Also a number “11” representing the Twin Towers appear. The shoes were airbrushed by True Blue Customs in Lexington, Kentucky.
In its denial the NFL reminded Williamson that all teams must be uniform on the field and no single player may wear unauthorized gear or sport special decorations upon that gear. The ban is usually aimed at keeping unauthorized financial sponsorships from appearing on field.
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