Cincinnati Bengals’ Chase Brown Fined $5K for Utilizing Salvation Military Kettle In Landing Celebration: ‘Actually?’

The NFL has fined Cincinnati Bengals operating again Chase Brown for leaping into the Dallas Cowboys’ gigantic pink Salvation Military donation kettle after scoring a landing on Monday Evening Soccer earlier this month.

The $5,481 unsportsmanlike conduct advantageous, which got here in response to Brown’s second quarter landing reception throughout the Bengals’ 27-20 win over the Cowboys on Dec. 9, was reported by ESPN earlier this week.

The outlet reported that the advantageous is as a result of NFL banning gamers from utilizing props throughout their landing celebrations, which have seen a handful of guidelines relaxed in recent times as they turn out to be extra embedded within the recreation.

After the sport, the 24-year-old operating again was shocked when reporters knowledgeable him the league may probably advantageous him for the celebration. Leaping into the pink Salvation Military kettle has turn out to be considerably of an NFL custom in Dallas, when the staff units up the show behind the endzone throughout the holidays every year.

Even Brown instructed reporters he was so used to seeing it occur yearly that he wasn’t conscious there have been any guidelines towards such a celebration.

“I’ve seen all people do it since I used to be a child, so I am like, ‘screw it, I am gonna do it,” Brown told reporters in a postgame video shared by ESPN’s Ben Child.

A reporter then requested Brown, “don’t you get a advantageous for that? Leaping within the kettle?”

“Do I actually?” Brown mentioned, wanting shocked. “I hope not. Like, a giant advantageous?”

One other reporter then requested Brown if it was “value it” to get fined for leaping within the kettle.

“No, positively not!” the Bengals operating again laughed. “I don’t make sufficient cash for that s—.”

NBC Sports activities noted that Brown was not penalized for unsportsmanlike conduct by officers throughout the recreation. The outlet additionally reported that the NFL has gone back-and-forth with fines associated to the pink kettle soar, generally issuing a advantageous and generally not.

In a single instance, NBC notes that Cowboys operating again Ezekiel Elliot was fined $13,369 for leaping within the kettle in 2018, however wasn’t fined for a similar celebration in 2016. In Nov. 2023, throughout a recreation on Thanksgiving Day, the league additionally didn’t subject fines after a number of Cowboys gamers jumped within the pink kettles behind the endzone and ate turkey legs preemptively hidden inside them.

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In an interview with The Athletic on Tuesday, Brown mentioned he plans to enchantment the NFL’s resolution.

“I’d reasonably simply donate it, like let’s minimize it in half and donate it to Salvation Military,” Brown mentioned earlier than stating that the kettles are in “each nook” of the stadium and the chance to leap in is simply too good for gamers to move up.

“It’s bait!” Brown laughed. “We’re getting arrange.”