{"id":12699,"date":"2024-10-30T00:02:24","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T00:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=12699"},"modified":"2024-10-30T00:02:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T00:02:24","slug":"why-49ers-nick-bosa-could-face-nfl-punishment-for-wearing-political-hat-during-crashing-of-postgame-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=12699","title":{"rendered":"Why 49ers&#8217; Nick Bosa could face NFL punishment for wearing political hat during crashing of postgame interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"Article-subline\">The 49ers star might have actually broken an NFL rule by wearing that hat<\/h2>\n<p>After the\u00a0<a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/teams\/SF\/san-francisco-49ers\/\">San Francisco 49ers<\/a>\u00a0beat the\u00a0<a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/teams\/DAL\/dallas-cowboys\/\">Dallas Cowboys<\/a>\u00a0on Sunday night,\u00a0<a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/players\/2260972\/nick-bosa\/\">Nick Bosa<\/a>\u00a0decided to crash the postgame interview that was taking place on NBC with three of his teammates.<\/p>\n<p>When Bosa showed up, he was wearing a hat that said &#8220;Make America Great Again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"MediaShortcode MediaShortcodeTwitter-Tweet none large\">\n<div class=\"MediaShortcode-content\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Nick Bosa crashes his teammates&#8217; postgame interview on &#8216;Sunday Night Football&#8217; while wearing a Make America Great Again hat. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1bTufDbRpc\">pic.twitter.com\/1bTufDbRpc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/awfulannouncing\/status\/1850864374883205380?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 28, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Although he&#8217;s free to wear that hat whenever he wants outside the stadium, he could end up facing a punishment for wearing it inside the stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The saying on the hat is Donald Trump&#8217;s political slogan, and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cbssports.com\/nfl\/\">NFL<\/a>\u00a0has a rule in place that prohibits players from wearing or displaying political messages while they&#8217;re on the job. As\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/49ers\/article\/nick-bosa-hat-stunt-broke-nfl-rules-19869103.php?utm_medium=facebook&amp;utm_source=sfgate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">noted by the San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>, the Rule 5, Section 4, Article 8 of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/operations.nfl.com\/media\/24emxacq\/2024-nfl-rulebook.pdf\">the NFL rulebook<\/a>\u00a0is pretty clear about what players are allowed to wear and what they&#8217;re not allowed to wear once they get to the stadium on game day.<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body-ad-0\" class=\"native-story-ad\">\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;Throughout the period on game day that a player is visible to the stadium and television audience (including in pregame warm-ups, in the bench area, and during postgame interviews in the locker room or on the field), players are prohibited from wearing, displaying, or otherwise conveying personal messages either in writing or illustration, unless such message has been approved in advance by the League office,&#8221; the rule states.<\/p>\n<p>So where does the political part come in?<\/p>\n<p>Things that players are prohibited from wearing include items that &#8220;relate to political activities or causes, other non-football events, causes or campaigns, or charitable causes or campaigns.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a non-partisan rule. If a player wore a Kamala Harris hat on game day, they&#8217;d also potentially be subject to an NFL punishment. If Bosa does get punished, it would likely be in the form of a fine.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, players ARE allowed to talk about their politics during their press conferences, but Bosa chose not to do that on Sunday. The 49ers star was asked about his hat after San Francisco&#8217;s win and he didn&#8217;t have much to say about the situation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not gonna talk too much about it, but I think it&#8217;s an important time,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jjones9\/status\/1850865594507116791\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bosa said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL has already fined at least one player this year for violating this section of the rulebook.\u00a0<a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/teams\/PIT\/pittsburgh-steelers\/\">Steelers<\/a>\u00a0wide receiver\u00a0<a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/players\/3123212\/george-pickens\/\">George Pickens<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl-fines-steelers-wr-george-pickens-10k-for-profane-message-on-eye-black-232730056.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">was hit with a $10,000 fine<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/news\/nfl-reportedly-reviewing-steelers-george-pickens-explicit-eye-black-message-wr-responds-to-backlash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">displaying a personal message<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in his eye black during a Week 5 game against the Cowboys, and now, Bosa could also be facing a similar fine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ArticleAuthor\">\n<div class=\"ArticleAuthor-headshot\">\n<div class=\"HeadshotContainer \">\n<div class=\"Headshot Headshot--medium\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 49ers star might have actually broken an NFL rule by wearing that hat After the\u00a0San Francisco 49ers\u00a0beat the\u00a0Dallas Cowboys\u00a0on Sunday night,\u00a0Nick Bosa\u00a0decided to crash the postgame interview that was &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12701,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12699\/revisions\/12701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}