Wearing his new Yeezy cleats earned NFL player a cool $6,000 fine
Kanye West and multifaceted Houston Texans wideout DeAndre Hopkins may love fashion, but the NFL sure doesn't.
The No Fun League National Football League reportedly handed Hopkins a $6,000 fine for wearing the new Yeezy 350 cleats during the Texans' season opener last Sunday, Hopkins told a group of reporters Thursday.
Hopkins was one of a few NFL stars to receive the pair of specially made cleats as a preseason gift from West himself, according to Sporting News. West also gifted the cleats to Broncos star linebacker Von Miller.
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The cleats went on sale to the general public Thursday (and sold out almost immediately), but Hopkins was the first NFL star to wear them in the league. The league then fined him, "because NFL rules say that shoes must have one dominant base color, which the Yeezy’s do not," according to the Associated Press. All of which is just another facet of the NFL's combative, and almost ridiculous, uniform policy.
So, understandably, Hopkins told reporters he's not planning on wearing the cleats again, “unless Kanye plans to pay his fine,” according to the Houston Chronicle.
Touché, DeAndre. Kanye's reaction, probably:
