Week 13 in the NFL was supposed to allow players to honor charitable causes. Players took part in a league initiative, “My Cause, My Cleats,” which allowed players to wear designer cleats that helped promote charities and social issues important to them.
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Green-Beckham wore a pair of cleats from Kanye West’s Yeezy brand — a cleat DeAndre Hopkins first wore this season — and he said he was supporting the “Yeezy Foundation,” which doesn’t exist.
Hopkins was fined the same amount when he wore the cleats to start the season, but at least he didn’t make up a foundation to try and justify it.
With so many worthy foundations out there, this fine could have been easily avoided had Green-Beckham taken a little time to think.
