SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — San Francisco 49ers star defensive finish Nick Bosa has been fined by the NFL for sporting a hat with a pro-Donald Trump message throughout a postgame tv interview, an individual accustomed to the matter instructed The Related Press on Saturday.
Bosa was fined $11,255 for violating the NFL uniform and gear guidelines for sporting a hat that contained a private message, in response to the one who spoke to the AP on situation of anonymity as a result of the superb wasn’t introduced by the NFL.
Bosa crashed a tv interview that included quarterback Brock Purdy throughout NBC’s postgame protection of the Niners’ win over the Dallas Cowboys on Oct. 27. Bosa pointed to a message on his white hat that learn “Make America Nice Once more” in help of Trump’s candidacy for president.
NFL guidelines state that “all through the interval on game-day {that a} participant is seen to the stadium and tv viewers (together with in pregame warm-ups, within the bench space, and through postgame interviews within the locker room or on the sector), gamers are prohibited from sporting, displaying, or in any other case conveying private messages both in writing or illustration, except such message has been accredited prematurely by the League workplace.”
Bosa, who agreed to a five-year, $170 million contract extension in September 2023, mentioned earlier this week that he was conscious that his actions might be topic to a superb.
“It was nicely value it,” he mentioned.
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