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San Francisco 49ers Quarterback Fined $10k for Defying No Beats Headphones Rule
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Funny to call someone clueless when you yourself show that you are.
You do realize that the uniforms and shoes they wear are part of a sponsorship deal and they must wear only those brands while on the field and often times at public appearances. It's been this way for years and years.
If I were kaep I'd go ahead and write a check for 160k for each game of the season and keep wearing beats. Cuz I'm sure he's getting paid more than that. Sherman too.
And Sherman's no dummy. Graduated from Stanford and is a star in the nfl. He obviously did something right
And Sherman's no dummy. Graduated from Stanford and is a star in the nfl. He obviously did something right
Where "abide" means "pay the fine if you wear anything but Bose headphones."
Sounds like a golden opportunity for Beats by Apple.
$10K a pop isn't even lunch money for them.
Brilliant move by Beats to keep exposure going, now they can totally leverage this and make Bose make like the bad guy and Beats as the underdog.
Cheap PR.
Cheap PR.
Football uniforms are work related like a suit. What's your point?Funny to call someone clueless when you yourself show that you are.
You do realize that the uniforms and shoes they wear are part of a sponsorship deal and they must wear only those brands while on the field and often times at public appearances. It's been this way for years and years.
I wonder if he has a contract with Beats and whether or not those endorsement deals are conflicting. If he has a Beats contract that says he has to bower beats during his post game interviews, and the NFL has one with Bose, what would his counsel advise him to do? Wear both? #
Nike is the official clothing and shoe provider by the NFL.
However, players can (and do) have shoe contracts with rival companies, and wear those products during games.
This is what makes this so...perplexing. Tom Brady of the Patriots wears Under Armor shoes, and isn't threatened or fined for doing so.
But if someone wears a different brand of headphones, then there is a fine to be paid.
However, players can (and do) have shoe contracts with rival companies, and wear those products during games.
This is what makes this so...perplexing. Tom Brady of the Patriots wears Under Armor shoes, and isn't threatened or fined for doing so.
But if someone wears a different brand of headphones, then there is a fine to be paid.
I am a researcher and a lecturer at a renowned university. The day when my employer stars dictating me what to wear, I will most certainly tell them to go screw themselves (diplomatically). But then again, there is no good reason for them to request anything like that from me, so such requests would be illegal (unless I start showing up for lectures wearing only a latex tanga and a gasmask).
On a more serious note, I understand the idea behind 'corporate identity' and 'appropriate closing'. I also understand that an employee has a certain duty towards its workplace, and this duty might include waring appropriate clothing, especially in cases where doing otherwise might harm the business. Say, wearing formal clothing as a bank cashier, because the bank might lose customer respect otherwise.
My problem with the NFL is that this kind of regulation goes to far in my opinion. Wearing specific brands of headphones has no direct relevance for the sports and certainly does not harm the 'corporate identity' or the sports business. And as you say - his job is to play sports. Wearing or not wearing headphones has nothing to do with it. I do not believe that the employer should have that kind of power over the employees, that smells too much like serfdom to me.
Really? Did Bose provide their headphones to all NFL players and personnel?
The NFL can promote Bose products all it wants when the games are interrupted by the constant commercial breaks (some call them time-outs).
The NFL is about FOOTBALL, so any player seen wearing any other headphone other than Bose should have NO effect on the players. Microsoft can ban its employees from using a competitor's products while in the workplace because that's what they produce. The NFL should not have ANY say so about what players wear. Maybe the players union will get into this when considering contracts.
Sort of. I would argue that the fatal flaw of communism is that it assumes greed doesn't exist, serves no purpose, and that it can be regulated out.
Whereas in capitalism, greed is celebrated, often even considered a requirement even if it comes at the cost of morality.
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Apple should just make Beats TV commercials that play at the beginning of every commercial break during a game.
There are at least 20 television breaks during an NFL game!
Bose wants to be seen on the field... great.
Apple can be seen during the breaks... 10 minutes per game!
There are at least 20 television breaks during an NFL game!
Bose wants to be seen on the field... great.
Apple can be seen during the breaks... 10 minutes per game!
It just looks stupid. Adults wearing headphones like 16 year olds. Leave them home and dont avoid conversations. Grow some character.
Whatever this is all worth, I hope Apple pushes the Beats team into developing incredible noise canceling tech because currently the Beats offering is terrible by comparison - I travel a ton for work and swear by the silence that my QC15s create to drown out the tour bus / plane noise.
Too bad the NFL didn't have any rules about players committing criminal acts. Oh, wait! they did - before that Ravens player was involved in an act that resulted in the death of another person in Atlanta.
And they are being used against players who beat up on family, girlfriends, offspring, etc.
Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner! This is a much more complex issue than, "screw the NFL," or, "stupid players" - there all all sorts of (potentially competing) contract issues.
What company or business tells its employees which brand of suit they have to wear?
That's a good question. I'd say that Bose takes priority. He was warned or punished before.
i don't know but I'd venture to guess that this was worked out in advance.
Then why does Sherm keep acting so stupid?
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Yeah they're called North Korean work camps. But not here, he works for an organization that cut a deal. He's free to leave if he chooses
But this was most likely just a troll post (I hope).
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Microsoft is a company that bans sales of iOS devices to their customers.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft...chases-by-its-sales-and-marketing-group/12221
Yet it's not banning their ability to purchase them outside of the work place.
I think you meant "Employees".
The point is that teams are allowed to restrict a player to wear a uniform that identifies them with the team. That is like a workplace requiring a suit for professionalism. Of course the workplace can't tell an employee what brand to wear., which is what I am arguing.
edit: read my previous posts. I am totally against this restriction. I was only answering another poster.