"during the Texans' 30-6 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers in the wildcard round of the NFL playoffs. Hours before the team's divisional round game against the New England Patriots, the league announced it had fined Al-Shaair. The nature of the message was not the reason for the fine, but the mere existence of it violated the NFL's policy against including a personal message on one's person. He was fined more than $11,000 for the message."
"I understood what I was doing. For example, [Diggs], he wears the eye tape since I've know him with stuff on it, and they always fined you. But I was told that if I wore that in the game, I would be pulled out the game. So, I think that was probably the part that I was confused about, because obviously that was a fine, but I ain't never seen [Diggs] get pulled out the game for having eye tape with writing on it."
Azeez Al-Shaair wore 'Stop the Genocide' on his eye black during the Texans' 30-6 wild-card victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers. The NFL fined him more than $11,000 because the mere presence of any personal message violates league policy, not because of the message's content. League officials warned that wearing the message could result in being pulled from the game. Al-Shaair referenced previous similar fines imposed on other players for eye-black messages and said he expected a fine but did not expect a threat of removal. Al-Shaair framed the message as drawing attention to Gaza.
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