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BY MARC STEIDLER

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It’s been said the NFL stands for “No Fun League,” for the way it strictly polices its players’ celebrations and uniforms. Now that moniker will be challenged again.

WFLD hosts talk about what the Bears’ Lance Briggs is planning for Sunday, the ten year anniversary of the 9/11 tragedies.

“He’s saying basically, ‘I’m going to wear red, white, and blue spikes.’ And what happens when you’re out of uniform for the National Football League? You get fined big time. And his quote was ‘This will be the biggest fine I’ve ever had.’ Perhaps it will be well worth it.”

But NFL spokesman Greg Aiello sent an email to ESPN Radio saying-- he doesn’t think Briggs will be fined for violating the league’s uniform policy.

The hosts on ESPN’s First Take had differing views on whether players should wear the patriotic gear.

Skip Bayless:  “But when an NFL game starts, that uniform code must be enforced, it must be held sacred, or you’ll open a pandora’s box of all sorts of players deciding to commemorate or honor whatever issue or memory that they so choose.”
Jon Ritchie: “I think we need to give our soldiers abroad something to turn on the TV and cheer about and say, 'you know what, he doesn’t care about the rules of the NFL, the overbearing Roger Goodell.'”

Yahoo!’s Doug Farrar notes-- the NFL has a history of keeping to its strict standards, even when the deviation is for a good reason.

“If you remember that the NFL threatened to fine Peyton Manning for wearing high-top cleats to honor the late Johnny Unitas... you know that the league takes its uniform rules very, very seriously.”

There may be some commercial underpinnings to the honorary garb -- Briggs and Chiefs’ running back Jamaal Charles thanked “Reebok” for the spikes and gloves in their tweets. Sports Grid’s Dan Fogarty thinks that dilutes the message.

“The tweets come with the ol’ ‘#reebok’ hashtag, I guess to make sure everyone on Twitter knows what’s up, and that if they want to properly pay homage to the nearly 3,000 people who died that day, they can just pick up a pair of these.”

Titans quarterback Matt Hasselbeck has also said publicly he does plan to wear patriotic accessories.

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