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(Pro Football Talk) Silly Today's edition of "OH SNAP" brought to you by Wes Welker's retort after being fined $10,000 for wearing an unauthorized hat during postgame press conference: "Thanks for warning me the other 16 weeks I wore the hat"   (profootballtalk.nbcsports.com) divider line 80
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Marcus Aurelius [TotalFark]
2011-12-31 10:57:00 AM
Wait, wait, wait. They have a dress code for the frigging POST GAME INTERVIEW?!?!?!?

That's the last post game interview I'd ever do. Hell, if the whole team says "no thanks" to the post-game interview, I bet the rules would change real quick.

Jesus.
 
unyon [TotalFark]
2011-12-31 11:28:42 AM
I didn't know what either a Wes Welker or a Bonk Breaker Energy Bar were before this article. I would say that that he's already got at least his $10k in free advertising.
 
SilentStrider [TotalFark]
2011-12-31 12:54:19 PM
Marcus Aurelius: That's the last post game interview I'd ever do. Hell, if the whole team says "no thanks" to the post-game interview, I bet the rules would change real quick.

no, i think they can get fined for that too.
 
Pocket Ninja [TotalFark]
2011-12-31 01:01:21 PM
That's a completely valid defense, too. I mean, I got pulled over for speeding yesterday on a road I always speed on, and I told the officer, "Look, buddy, you got me for doing 78 in a 55 but yesterday I was doing like 85 on this same stretch and nobody said anything. And you should see how fast I've gotten on other days." And he just nodded and said, "You know, you've got a point," and we shook hands and he sent me on my way.
 
Aarontology [TotalFark]
2011-12-31 01:02:20 PM
Why, if I didn't know any better, I'd say this was a marketing stunt.
 
kronicfeld [TotalFark]
2011-12-31 01:07:52 PM
Pocket Ninja: That's a completely valid defense, too. I mean, I got pulled over for speeding yesterday on a road I always speed on, and I told the officer, "Look, buddy, you got me for doing 78 in a 55 but yesterday I was doing like 85 on this same stretch and nobody said anything. And you should see how fast I've gotten on other days." And he just nodded and said, "You know, you've got a point," and we shook hands and he sent me on my way.

When the NFL has employees whose sole job is to hyperscrutinize sock length from the sidelines and penalize players five figures if their jersey is untucked, failure to enforce rules like this is almost tacit condonation.
 
2wolves [TotalFark]
2011-12-31 01:12:56 PM
Marcus Aurelius: Wait, wait, wait. They have a dress code for the frigging POST GAME INTERVIEW?!?!?!?

That's the last post game interview I'd ever do. Hell, if the whole team says "no thanks" to the post-game interview, I bet the rules would change real quick.

Jesus.

Can't dilute the product image.

Don't tell me. You were tuning in for an athletic contest?
 
Marcus Aurelius [TotalFark]
2011-12-31 01:26:39 PM
2wolves: Marcus Aurelius: Wait, wait, wait. They have a dress code for the frigging POST GAME INTERVIEW?!?!?!?

That's the last post game interview I'd ever do. Hell, if the whole team says "no thanks" to the post-game interview, I bet the rules would change real quick.

Jesus.

Can't dilute the product image.

Don't tell me. You were tuning in for an athletic contest?

No, I actually tune in for the three hours of commercials.
 
Ryan2065 [TotalFark]
2011-12-31 01:36:17 PM
Marcus Aurelius: Wait, wait, wait. They have a dress code for the frigging POST GAME INTERVIEW?!?!?!?

That's the last post game interview I'd ever do. Hell, if the whole team says "no thanks" to the post-game interview, I bet the rules would change real quick.

Jesus.

It is more about him advertising a product for personal gain during the interview than about him wearing a random hat.
 
TeddyBallGame
2011-12-31 01:45:15 PM
85's Tweet about it was perfect. Wes Welker is the first white WR to get fined by the NFL. Welcome to the club, Starbucks is on me.
 
2wolves [TotalFark]
2011-12-31 02:14:55 PM
Marcus Aurelius: No, I actually tune in for the three hours of commercials.

Then you understand all about unauthorized product placement. Good.
 
teto85 [TotalFark]
2011-12-31 02:17:49 PM
Pete Rozelle smiles, nods approvingly.
 
Speaker2Animals [TotalFark]
2011-12-31 02:44:31 PM
Marcus Aurelius: No, I actually tune in for the three hours of commercials morans dancing and celebrating everything from making a tackle to being able to take a breath without any instructions.

FTFY
 
Dancin_In_Anson [TotalFark]
2011-12-31 02:45:01 PM
Marcus Aurelius: No, I actually tune in for the three hours of commercials.

I went to a Cowboys (hey, the tickets and bar tab were paid for) game last year. First pro football game I've been to since the Luv Ya Blue! era (yeah yeah yeah get off my lawn while yer at it). I couldn't believe how much standing around went on. They have the timing down to a science. Play, play commercial break. Play, punt, commercial break. Commercial break, time out. Time out, play commercial break. All the while, Jerry Jones is trying to pay the light bill with various stage shows at one end or the other of the stadium. The Miller Light dancers bit was particularly excruciating to watch...but hilarious in it's conception. It all boils down to the fact that the NFL has turned into one big commercial with an occasional touchdown play thrown in and I won't get suckered by it...Except for my NFL Red Zone subscription.
 
Krymson Tyde [TotalFark]
2011-12-31 02:59:16 PM
teto85: Pete Rozelle smiles, nods approvingly.
i144.photobucket.com
 
skinink
2011-12-31 03:08:08 PM

And as usual for Wes Welker, he wasn't caught until it was way too late.


howigit.com

 
Hoban Washburne [TotalFark]
2011-12-31 03:17:09 PM
I had a class with Wes in college. He was a pretty nice guy. He is not 5'9"

/csb
 
Bear in the Woods
2011-12-31 03:18:18 PM
Useless article is useless without pics of the offending hat.

/unless it had a giant penis on it, I could care less.
//Probably just a advertiser that didn't chip into the NFL's big ole pot of money.
 
brap [TotalFark]
2011-12-31 03:22:12 PM
I'd wear Bonk Breaker Energy bar spats and make the reporters interview my feet. Stickin' to the man, Puttin on the Ritz style boiiiiiii.
 
I Am The Egg Matt Drudge Smears Upon His Body
2011-12-31 03:27:30 PM
Pocket Ninja: That's a completely valid defense, too. I mean, I got pulled over for speeding yesterday on a road I always speed on, and I told the officer, "Look, buddy, you got me for doing 78 in a 55 but yesterday I was doing like 85 on this same stretch and nobody said anything. And you should see how fast I've gotten on other days." And he just nodded and said, "You know, you've got a point," and we shook hands and he sent me on my way.


Point
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Your head



/Yes, I realize youre Mr. Satire around here.

//You still gotta have a clue in order for satire to be teh funny.
 
Life_is_a_carnivore [TotalFark]
2011-12-31 03:34:52 PM
If 'Bonk Breaker energy bars' had any clue, they would make 50, 000 of the hats and hand them out at the next game.
 
12349876
2011-12-31 03:35:45 PM
The only appropriate OH SNAP sports headline today is that skycam falling down at the bowl game.
 
Sabyen91 [TotalFark]
2011-12-31 03:36:50 PM
I don't like the Patriots but I have liked Wes since he put his best foot forward.
 
myinternetname
2011-12-31 03:36:50 PM
Yeah the tweet conversation between Welker & Chad Johnson was priceless.
 
rjakobi
2011-12-31 03:51:58 PM
Meanwhile, the NBA post-game dress code is in effect and people couldn't be more grateful.
 
mitchcumstein1 [TotalFark]
2011-12-31 03:52:18 PM
I think he should be fined for promoting something called Bonk Breaker.
 
Do You Know What I Am Saying
2011-12-31 04:16:28 PM
img684.imageshack.us

Obligatory.
 
miltonbabbitt
2011-12-31 04:19:30 PM
Then for the bargain basement price of $10,000, he gets all of this new publicity for the company? Score.
 
timswar
2011-12-31 04:25:15 PM
unyon: I didn't know what either a Wes Welker or a Bonk Breaker Energy Bar were before this article. I would say that that he's already got at least his $10k in free advertising.

This. Whoever is running Bonk is a very happy person ATM.
 
rickythepenguin
2011-12-31 04:26:33 PM
timswar: This. Whoever is running Bonk is a very happy person ATM.


ATM makes many people very happy, especially your mom
 
jaylectricity [TotalFark]
2011-12-31 04:51:58 PM
What about those two clowns that were wearing green and red socks on the field for the New Orleans Saints...did they ever get fined?
 
Soon Right Away
2011-12-31 04:53:32 PM
brap: I'd wear Bonk Breaker Energy bar spats and make the reporters interview my feet. Stickin' to the man, Puttin on the Ritz style boiiiiiii.

Rex Ryan approves.
 
WhyteRaven74
2011-12-31 04:54:28 PM
jaylectricity: What about those two clowns that were wearing green and red socks on the field for the New Orleans Saints...did they ever get fined?

Those weren't socks, it was red and green tape, and as far as I know the NFL has no rule about tape color. Yet.
 
Wild Eyed and Wicked
2011-12-31 05:05:55 PM
myinternetname: Yeah the tweet conversation between Welker & Chad Johnson was priceless.

Eversince Chad got Welker on twitter (what was it, last week?), Welker has been pretty funny in a kid in a candy store kinda way. The tweets that day were especially funny!
 
lacydog
2011-12-31 05:31:26 PM
jaylectricity: What about those two clowns that were wearing green and red socks on the field for the New Orleans Saints...did they ever get fined?

According to uni-watch, they were told to remove it at half time. The league apparently told them they wouldn't be allowed to re-take the field with the tape. And this is why the NFL is sometimes known as the No Fun League.
 
9beers
2011-12-31 05:31:51 PM
Marcus Aurelius: Wait, wait, wait. They have a dress code for the frigging POST GAME INTERVIEW?!?!?!?

That's the last post game interview I'd ever do. Hell, if the whole team says "no thanks" to the post-game interview, I bet the rules would change real quick.

Jesus.

Because having your players show up to media events looking like something out of NASCAR is just what the NFL wants.

By the way, you can't refuse interviews without being fined.
 
AnEvilGuest
2011-12-31 05:34:15 PM
I wish Chad was learning to play WR like Wes, instead of Wes learning to play twitter like Chad.
 
Sabyen91 [TotalFark]
2011-12-31 05:35:42 PM
9beers: Marcus Aurelius: Wait, wait, wait. They have a dress code for the frigging POST GAME INTERVIEW?!?!?!?

That's the last post game interview I'd ever do. Hell, if the whole team says "no thanks" to the post-game interview, I bet the rules would change real quick.

Jesus.

Because having your players show up to media events looking like something out of NASCAR is just what the NFL wants.

By the way, you can't refuse interviews without being fined.

If I have to wear business casual to my cubicle farm he can do without the hat.
 
WienerButt
2011-12-31 05:52:58 PM
Hoban Washburne: I had a class with Wes in college. He was a pretty nice guy. He is not 5'9"

/csb

Shorter?
 
mikaloyd
2011-12-31 05:55:48 PM
Georgia Tech is failing soooo hard right now against Utah.

It does my heart good.
 
mikaloyd
2011-12-31 06:00:53 PM
UTAH WINS!
 
INeedAName
2011-12-31 06:35:27 PM
Highlights from this week's best basketball finish, 39 comments. Wes Welker wears a hat, 41 comments.

Can't wait until the NBA closes up shop.
 
KamikazeCraig
2011-12-31 06:43:06 PM
Bear in the Woods:
/unless it had a giant penis on it, I could care less.

So you do care?

/I couldn't care less about bad grammar
//or could I?
 
lecavalier
2011-12-31 06:47:26 PM
Last year, courtesy of the dog-and-pony show with preventing CTE/concussions, I sent a letter to the New England Patriots and the NFL offices in NYC telling them that while I will never stop being a football fan, I am going to do my best to not purchase any NFL merchendise or anything their sponsors sell. I am sure it was not read or urinated on, but whatever, I worked next door to a post office. I am going to fire another one off but, this time, to every NFL sponsor I can think of.

It might be childish and I'll understand if you tell me I am nuts, but stuff like this Welker hat nonsense annoys me really badly.
 
IAmRight [TotalFark]
2011-12-31 06:49:38 PM
Instead of doing these stupid fines, they COULD find out how much each player is making for said endorsements and charge them that amount.

Otherwise, the fines are probably less than what they're getting for shilling out for their own personal products on company time.

/and this is what it's comparable to - are you allowed to run your own business from your office at work while your employer pays you?
 
IAmRight [TotalFark]
2011-12-31 06:51:58 PM
lecavalier: Last year, courtesy of the dog-and-pony show with preventing CTE/concussions,

Did you make your point sound a little more intelligent than that? Or did you really go with something that makes you sound like "I won't buy your products unless you do more to ensure everyone gets permanent brain damage!"
 
theFword
2011-12-31 07:02:14 PM
White people problems.
 
lecavalier
2011-12-31 07:04:50 PM
IAmRight: lecavalier: Last year, courtesy of the dog-and-pony show with preventing CTE/concussions,

Did you make your point sound a little more intelligent than that? Or did you really go with something that makes you sound like "I won't buy your products unless you do more to ensure everyone gets permanent brain damage!"

I am pretty sure we had this conversation in the other thread. I am basically calling bullshiat on the NFL, they care as much about CTE/PCS as they do the economy of Ethiopia. All they give a fark about is their anti-trust status. And that's fine, but make your point without getting the officials' hankies out on the field every time there is a huge hit, but ignore the 189 headshots that go on all around the field that involve defensive ends, centers, and fullbacks.
 
rjakobi
2011-12-31 07:05:33 PM
lacydog: jaylectricity: What about those two clowns that were wearing green and red socks on the field for the New Orleans Saints...did they ever get fined?

According to uni-watch, they were told to remove it at half time. The league apparently told them they wouldn't be allowed to re-take the field with the tape. And this is why the NFL is sometimes known as the No Fun League.

I thought it had something to do with Mark Gastineau.

/not the tape
//the no fun part.
 
IAmRight [TotalFark]
2011-12-31 07:07:24 PM
lecavalier: I am pretty sure we had this conversation in the other thread. I am basically calling bullshiat on the NFL, they care as much about CTE/PCS as they do the economy of Ethiopia. All they give a fark about is their anti-trust status. And that's fine, but make your point without getting the officials' hankies out on the field every time there is a huge hit, but ignore the 189 headshots that go on all around the field that involve defensive ends, centers, and fullbacks.

Hell, I think it would be even easier to just mandate the "concussion-reducing" helmets. How stupid are NFL players that they wouldn't wear them because "they don't look cool"...though they look pretty much the same to anyone else.

/if they're good enough for the best QB in the league, they're good enough for you, too, everyone else
 
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