{"id":548,"date":"2012-10-25T21:46:18","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T01:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=548"},"modified":"2012-10-25T21:47:31","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T01:47:31","slug":"earl-bennett-fined-by-nfl-for-wearing-orange-cleats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2012\/10\/25\/earl-bennett-fined-by-nfl-for-wearing-orange-cleats\/","title":{"rendered":"Earl Bennett fined by NFL for wearing orange cleats"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_549\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-549\" style=\"width: 244px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-549\" title=\"cleatsearl\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/10\/cleatsearl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/10\/cleatsearl.jpg 400w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/10\/cleatsearl-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-549\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dennis Wierzbicki\/US Presswire<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Earl Bennett, wide receiver for the Chicago Bears wore orange cleats against the Detroit Lions on Monday night. He told ESPNChicago that the league fined him $10,500 on Thursday for breaking the leagues uniform policy. This is not a strange occurrence for Bennett. Twice last season he wore bright orange shoes and the league fined him a total of $15,000 for it.<\/p>\n<p>Bennett was coerced into wearing the cleats by teammate Brandon Marshall.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It actually came about when I walked in the locker room (before the game) because I had them in my bag, and I wasn&#8217;t sure if I was going to wear them,&#8221; Bennett said. &#8220;Then Brandon Marshall was like, &#8216;Let&#8217;s wear them,&#8217; so I just put them on. I probably wouldn&#8217;t have worn them if he wouldn&#8217;t have agreed to it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not even the color of Bennett&#8217;s shoelaces could get him out of the leagues decision.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well I had pink shoelaces, though,&#8221; Bennett said. &#8220;That could sway it. We&#8217;ll see. Hopefully they don&#8217;t fine me. I did have the pink on for breast cancer awareness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bennett caught three passes for a combined 27 yards in the Bears 13-7 win over the Lions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earl Bennett, wide receiver for the Chicago Bears wore orange cleats against the Detroit Lions on Monday night. He told ESPNChicago that the league fined him $10,500 on Thursday for breaking the leagues uniform policy. This is not a strange occurrence for Bennett. Twice last season he wore bright orange shoes and the league fined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[36,94],"coauthors":[28],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-chicago-bears","tag-earl-bennett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}