{"id":934057,"date":"2026-10-19T18:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T18:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/934057\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T18:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T18:52:10","slug":"after-nfl-objected-to-myles-garretts-sideline-apparel-garrett-kept-it-simple-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/934057\/","title":{"rendered":"After NFL objected to Myles Garrett’s sideline apparel, Garrett kept it simple on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NFL has clear, inflexible rules when it comes to the apparel worn by coaches and players on the sideline who aren\u2019t in uniform.<\/p>\n

Sometimes, they\u2019re not quite so inflexible.<\/p>\n

As explained by Jonathan Jones of The Athletic, the NFL talked to \u2014 but did not fine<\/a> \u2014 Rams defensive end Myles Garrett for wearing a Nike Jumpman tracksuit that didn\u2019t match the team\u2019s colors during last Monday night\u2019s game against the Bills.<\/p>\n

Via Jones, the league didn\u2019t dip into Garrett\u2019s considerable coffers. The situation was regarded as falling into the \u201cgray area\u201d that the league and the NFL Players Association recently acknowledged as to celebrations; for certain potential infractions, the NFL will now warn first and fine later.<\/p>\n

In this case, the area is more green than gray. The NFL makes plenty of money from its Nike deal, and Garrett was wearing Nike gear. So, while Garrett wasn\u2019t serving as an organic billboard for NFL gear made by Nike, he was modeling other Nike apparel.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Garrett kept it very generic, with a plain white T-shirt and plain gray shorts. There were no logos to be seen: Rams, NFL, or Nike.<\/p>\n

Which is the perfect response. Unless and until the players get a direct piece of the sales of the non-uniform officially-licensed gear they\u2019ve been issued, why should they market it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL has clear, inflexible rules when it comes to the apparel worn by coaches and players on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-934057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}