Isaiah McKenzie is a 26-year-old professional football player. Cole Beasley is a 32-year-old professional football player. They both play for the Buffalo Bills. Both men are unvaccinated, much like the Vikings’ Kirk Cousins and the Ravens’ Lamar Jackson. All of the NFL teams have been in preseason training camps for weeks now, and from what I’ve seen, no team is having a good preseason. Mostly because there are prominent team members who refuse to get vaccinated, refuse to wear a mask and then whine about getting fined or sent home for the week when they have some kind of close contact. So it is within the Bills. Both McKenzie and Beasley refuse to get vaxxed, refuse to wear masks properly, and now they’re acting like a–holes because they’re getting fined:
The Buffalo Bills are in the news once again Thursday morning in relation to COVID-19. Per usual, that news is not becoming to the franchise. Wide receivers Isaiah McKenzie and Cole Beasley were each fined $14,650 by the NFL for not wearing masks indoors earlier this week at the team facility, a requirement for all people who are not vaccinated.
Both took to Twitter to reveal that news Thursday with McKenzie posting a copy of the letter he received, mocking it and asking fans to “pray for me.”
All this a day after the Bills had a vaccinated member of the training staff test positive which forced the team to send home six players, including Beasley, who were deemed to be close contacts, even though they tested negative, as per NFL and NFLPA agreed upon protocols.
Two of those players, linebackers Matt Milano and A.J. Klein, were allowed to return to practice Wednesday because their contact was to a lesser degree. But Beasley, fellow wide receiver Gabriel Davis, and defensive tackles Vernon Butler and Star Lotulelei, will not be able to return until after Saturday’s game against the Packers, provided they continue to test negative.
Now that they have been fined for not wearing masks, Beasley and McKenzie are subject to repeat offender penalties. Another violation will cost them a week of regular-season pay, which is much more than $14,650, particularly for Beasley. A third offense could result in a four-game suspension.
I’m including some of the tweets below because these grown men are incredibly stupid and selfish. Cole Beasley especially, because his unvaccinated ass doesn’t understand how he was in close contact with someone vaccinated who tested positive for Covid. Why is it so f–king hard for these bros? Just get vaccinated and wear your mask properly.
Holy sh-t Cole sounds absolutely bonkers & stupid.
Don’t worry they got me too. But I was wearing a mask when I was in close contact with fully vaxxed trainer who tested positive and still got sent home. So what’s the point of the mask anyways? Meanwhile I’m here still testing negative and can’t come back. Make it make sense. https://t.co/VGzoy0ljb4
— Cole Beasley (@Bease11) August 26, 2021
So I can go around infecting everyone without anybody knowing it? No thank you. The vaccinated is why I am at home right now. He got sick and I didn’t. Why would I get it?
— Cole Beasley (@Bease11) August 26, 2021
Im gonna exhaust all options before retiring and try to change as much as I can for the other unvaccinated players. They are not protected at all. They have to protect themselves from the vaccinated players and staff. Which is almost impossible since they’re tested 1/14 days.
— Cole Beasley (@Bease11) August 26, 2021
Photos courtesy of Getty.
Cole Beasley is a dope.
If I were his health insurer, I would send out a letter stating that the company will be raising the premiums of those who willfully refuse to get vaccinated — the rest of us should not have to pay for them to engage in high-risk behavior.
There is little that can get through to these people, and I doubt the fines will make a dent. THe real punishment for someone with his mental capacity is to start benching him. But I doubt the team has the fortitude to make such a move.
Pretending that he is afraid of the vaccinated is such a gutter move.
Meatheads. Watch out. Karma. I’m like everyone else with a working frontal lobe or two, sick of the ignorant fools. Feeling a little violent these days. I’m a second away from going apesht if any of them say one word to me.
at this point I wish every single one of these dimwits Covid with a particularly devastating severe course. I want them to suffer long and hard.
woooah…after friends and family members have passed from covid….trust me….this is a reckless thing to wish on someone.
After friends and family members passed from covid, trust me, I know exactly what I wish on these inconsiderate ignorant assholes. They deserve the consequences of their own actions. I said what I said.
If someone willfully chooses to not get the vaccine, there are consequences for their their choice. Idiot decisions produce bad consequences. We aren’t talking about those who got Covid pre vax or who have been vaxxed .Those refusing to get vaxxed.
These uncaring anti vaxx people are the SPEADERS. If not for them our unvaccinated kids wouldn’t be in the hospital. I would not mind their suffering.
Yup. And if they suffer the long-term effects of Covid, they may also be kissing their football careers goodbye. Running a few feet will wind them. Although I guess this is true for the vaccinated players as well. It will be interesting to see future statistics about long-term effects and whether there is a difference in the numbers of those who get it between vaccinated and unvaccinated.
Sounds right to me. Fine them, then if they don’t comply with the rules, bench them.
Over paid jocks are not essential workers by any stretch.
I am so fed up with people who continue to deny the pandemic.
Yesterday I was at my local grocery store and every employee was masked. And myself, and almost no one else. (sigh)
But, at my local Sams Club, they have signs on entrance doors requiring masks, etc. and an employee was spraying the shopping carts with disinfectant, with another staff offering free masks and gloves before a 3rd staff was checking membership cards.
Now I can get behind that!
Minnesota here and the State Fair is coming up and school starts right after. God help us all.
Don’t forget the returning bikers from Sturgis.
oh, you’re in Minnesota?! Go see Davina and the Vagabonds at the State Fair if you can. Masked, of course! But she and her band are AWESOME.
Yeah, this isn’t the time to be going to a crowded state fair. At all.
Finally, real consequences for the unvaccinated due to FDA approval. Bravo leverage. Come on, whine it up all you want. You will lose.
Going forward they should have it be in players contracts that if they choose to not be vaccinated for Covid and get it and have to miss games and they should not get the salary correlating to those lost games. I believe in a lot of contracts they have a clause where if the players get hurt doing something unrelated to football that they also lose out on money in the contracts so why would this be any different. They’re making a personal choice to put themselves in danger and others for that fact so why should they get the full benefit of their contract for getting sick with something That could’ve been preventable.
Is he… insinuating vaccinated people are more at risk for Covid than the unvaccinated?
How many hits to the head has he had?
That is a popular anti-vax conspiracy that mutations and increased viral loads are from the vaccinated. Which is bunk.
I think maybe he’s like a parrot. It somewhat resembles the phonology and cadence of coherent human speech, sure, but it’s really just mindless squawking.
It’s a typical right wing twisting of statistics they use here in the UK – where 80% of the population is vaccinated… more vaccinated people are testing positive, therefore vaccination is bad. Don’t mention that almost all covid cases in hospitals are unvaccinated.
Dumbasses
It is a simple numbers fallacy but they are too stupid to understand the basic fallacy in which they are engaged. Heard a great segment from a statistician about that very fallacy the other day and it was enlightening.
I’ve said many times that my biggest fear being vaxxed is that I have it and am spreading it to other people and have no idea. But I mask up and keep my freaking distance from people, which is what you’re supposed to do. We vaxxed folks are SUPPOSED to be able to go around maskless but the unvaxxed ruined that for us.
I do wonder about the close contact he had with a person who tested positive. Isn’t it if you’re near them for more than 15 mins and closer than 6 feet? But yes, dude is an idiot and he wants to play dumb games and win stupid prizes like fines and suspensions.
Delta is more infectious-so its now less than a minute of exposure. (And one point CDC saying like chicken pox which is less than 10 seconds-but the data has shifted)
He’s angling for a fat post football contract as a commentator on FOX or ESPN. If he raises enough hell about masks and vaccinations he figures that he will have a larger base of fans to support him. Meanwhile the other, lessor players that listen to him will crash and burn and have their careers cut short.
You can’t fix stupid.
My coworker’s son hasn’t even been in school two weeks and he tested positive yesterday. None of their house is vaxxed even though she has a 3 year old who just fought leukemia last year. I hope that baby is kept far away from his brother.
How many intelligent but underprivileged students who work their asses off in high school get shafted by college admissions because spots were wasted on willfully ignorant asshole jocks who don’t understand basic germ theory? I imagine such assholes are also the reason why it took so long for the league to realize that concussions turned players’ brains to mush, rather than them just being in a natural state of stupidity.
This. I feel like he’s banking on white privilege to “exhaust his options.”
When he’s banned from practice and is not allowed to play in games, let’s see if anyone will re-up his contract. There’s always younger, talented, VACCINATED players waiting to take his place. Must be nice to be able to blow $14K, and then a week’s worth of pay, just to “take a stand.”
I mean, is he counting on magas to go full cancel culture on football because of the NFL’s vaccination policy for the players?
Their natural state of stupidity 😂😂😂😂
Cole doesn’t seem to be the brightest crayon in the box. Think he honestly is dumb enough to not know that even vaxxed people can spread Covid.
“Both took to Twitter to reveal that news Thursday with McKenzie posting a copy of the letter he received, mocking it and asking fans to ‘pray for me.’”
whining like babies, doing so in public no less, because they were held accountable for not complying with rules is generally considered unsportsmanlike conduct. I’m pretty sure the league has issued fines/penalties for unsportsmanlike conduct in the past, so they should feel free to do so now
As a bills fan, I’m so frustrated that this might ruin a good year for us. We finally have a chance at the super bowl and asinine players are going to blow it.
That the majority of anti-maskers, who do not want someone telling them what to do, are the same people that tell me I can’t wear braids to work or restrict access to my birth control? Didn’t the NFL fine players for kneeling in a form of peaceful protest? Didn’t these same guys applaud that decision? Seems to me, they like to dish it out, but have a hard time taking it!
McKenzie really posted his personal email address on twitter?! lol
Did he seriously not redact his personal email address on that letter before he posted it? That says a lot about his IQ as well.
Bills fan from Buffalo here. I wish Beasley would just leave. He’s an idiot hick who is ruining the team’s vibe with his immature bullshit. “I’d rather die living” was one of his anti vaxx tweets. Make it make sense, Cole.
Honestly, this seems a deliberate flouting of the rules. From a Buffalo newspaper:
According to the letter, McKenzie’s violations came at 2:15 p.m. Wednesday when he walked through the team’s indoor fieldhouse into the training room and again at 4:35 p.m. when he did not have a mask on in the meeting area of the weight room while gathered near other players.
“Your refusal to wear a mask occurred after you were informed that it was required for unvaccinated players as set forth in your 2021 club discipline schedule and as reiterated by signage throughout the club facility stating that unvaccinated players may be subject to fines/discipline for failing to wear a mask,” the letter reads.
My husband was delivering groceries to a store in MS and was confronted about why he is was wearing a mask. His answer, ‘because you aren’t’. He delivered to the store several weeks later and found out the man who confronted him was, wait for it… in the hospital with covid.
A – what a great answer!
And
B – how terrifying!
From a Buffalo newspaper. Honestly, this seems a deliberate flouting of the rules:
According to the letter, McKenzie’s violations came at 2:15 p.m. Wednesday when he walked through the team’s indoor fieldhouse into the training room and again at 4:35 p.m. when he did not have a mask on in the meeting area of the weight room while gathered near other players.
“Your refusal to wear a mask occurred after you were informed that it was required for unvaccinated players as set forth in your 2021 club discipline schedule and as reiterated by signage throughout the club facility stating that unvaccinated players may be subject to fines/discipline for failing to wear a mask,” the letter reads.
Wow, that’s a whole lot of stupid…
Vaccines and masks aren’t 100%, so he thinks they’re useless? Well a helmet isn’t going to protect you from every injury, but it’s a heck of a lot safer than playing in the NFL without it.
I know they won’t do it, but the NFL should bench each anti-vax player. At home. No shot, no playing.