while I’m disappointed that we won’t be seeing more Celek-like, Captain-esque posing, i completely agree with the NFL on this one.
NFL rules state that a company can’t pay a player to somehow promote it’s product on the field. That’s a good rule. If they opened the door here, even to a charity, it could/would get SO out of hand, that we’d have ads and poses and for-profit acts going on all over the place. note the poster-boards that tennis players have turned into. it’s ugly, distracting, distasteful. don’t think we’d see Ochocinco doing entire routines for Fathead? NFLers tatted-up with their favorite shoe logo by Week 11? you could bet MY life on it!
i love me a good ol’ fashioned Chad “Johnson” Ochocinco endzone dance, but let’s leave the product placement out of it.
November 13th, 2009
while I’m disappointed that we won’t be seeing more Celek-like, Captain-esque posing, i completely agree with the NFL on this one.
NFL rules state that a company can’t pay a player to somehow promote it’s product on the field. That’s a good rule. If they opened the door here, even to a charity, it could/would get SO out of hand, that we’d have ads and poses and for-profit acts going on all over the place. note the poster-boards that tennis players have turned into. it’s ugly, distracting, distasteful. don’t think we’d see Ochocinco doing entire routines for Fathead? NFLers tatted-up with their favorite shoe logo by Week 11? you could bet MY life on it!
i love me a good ol’ fashioned Chad “Johnson” Ochocinco endzone dance, but let’s leave the product placement out of it.