Antonio Brown will honor Arnold Palmer with an awesome pair of custom cleats
In the words of Antonio Brown, getting fined by the NFL is "nothing to a boss."
The Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver — who was fined for twerking and wearing baby blue cleats in a game earlier this month — plans to honor the late Arnold Palmer on Sunday with a fresh pair of cleats.
But Brown may not have to reach for his checkbook for wearing these cleats.
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A Pennsylvania resident and gold legend, Palmer died Sunday of heart complications.
"Every week, I'm going to try to keep some motivation or put a picture of somebody that means the most to me or inspires me to keep me encouraged," Brown told ESPN. "I'm definitely going to follow the rules in regards to sticking to the team color."
The Arnold Palmer cleats are black and yellow — Steelers' colors — so they should enable him to dodge a fine from the league violating its uniform standards.
Brown sported blue cleats with his children's faces inscribed on them for the first half of last week's matchup against Philadelphia.
According to ESPN's Jeremy Fowler, "an NFL official notified Brown at halftime that he couldn't continue playing unless he switched shoes. NFL rules permit uniform inspectors to notify players of violations on the spot. A player can be held out of a game until the uniform foul is rectified."
Brown hadn't received a fine as of Friday, Fowler said.
The NFL has notoriously strict uniform policies.
The league fined Brandon Marshall for sporting lime-green cleats to support Mental Illness Awareness Week in 2013, and handed William Gay a $5,787 fine last year for his purple cleats, which the Steelers cornerback wore to promote domestic violence awareness.
However, the NFL announced earlier this month that it would allow players to write personal messages on their cleats during Week 13 -- with a couple rules, of course.
Brown and Palmer met before training camp this year. Brown posted this video on his Twitter account on Sunday after Palmer died.
