Cam Heyward fined by National Football League for eye black honoring father’s cancer fight

As ESPN&#8217s Lisa Salters reported during the &#8220Monday Evening Football&#8221 broadcast, Williams wanted to honor her by wearing pink footwear or wristbands all year, as an alternative of just the breast cancer awareness month of October. The elder Heyward died at age 39 of brain cancer.

Heyward isn’t the only Steeler who recently go the stiff arm from the league office in trying to honor a parent who battled cancer.

Players are permitted to use eye-black to reduce glare from sunlight or bright stadium lights, but the NFL’s uniform policy is against “personal messages”. Heyward wore the words “Iron” and “Head” under his eyes, resulting in what a source says is a $5,787 fine.

That’s the same policy that will prevent Steelers running back DeAngelo Williams from wearing pink on his uniform after October.

Heyward tweeted Wednesday that he had been fined by the NFL.

Also, as the two Steelers learned, the National Football League only allows players to visibly support cancer victims if it matches their merchandise sales – so it has to be breast cancer and it has to be in October. They don’t want to upset anybody.

This is not the first time Heyward has worn the “Ironhead” eye black, he said, but it is the first time he received a fine for doing so. I honor my dad.