“Teddy Bridgewater Act”<\/a> is moving through Florida’s legislature. <\/p>\nBridgewater is a current NFL player with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and former star quarterback for the University of Louisville. <\/p>\n
In 2024, he retired from the NFL and took a position as head coach of his former high school football team: Miami-Northwestern Senior High School in Miami.<\/p>\n
He was suspended from that position after he provided “impermissible benefits to players.” Bridgewater personally paid for Uber rides, pregame meals and athletic recovery for some. <\/p>\n
He says he self-reported the payments to the school.<\/p>\n
Bridgewater received an outpouring of support after his suspension. <\/p>\n
That inspired a bill to allow coaches to spend up to $15,000 in personal funds on their team.<\/p>\n
The Florida Senate passed the bill unanimously, voting 38-0 in its favor.<\/p>\n
It now heads to the Florida House of Representatives. If passed there, it will head to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ desk to be signed into law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The “Teddy Bridgewater Act” is moving through Florida’s legislature. Bridgewater is a current NFL player with the Tampa…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2077],"tags":[5663,18385,211,380,108886,7,109085,6496,109086,16299,109083,6,109084,188,3675,9378,704,31037,250,2597,2596,381],"class_list":{"0":"post-766264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-buccaneers","8":"tag-bill","9":"tag-bridgewater","10":"tag-buccaneers","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-florida-senate","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-former-star-quarterback","15":"tag-head-coach","16":"tag-impermissible-benefit","17":"tag-legislature","18":"tag-miami-northwestern-senior-high-school","19":"tag-nfl","20":"tag-outpouring","21":"tag-player","22":"tag-position","23":"tag-support","24":"tag-tampa-bay","25":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneer","26":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","27":"tag-tampabay","28":"tag-tampabaybuccaneers","29":"tag-university"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116107359406650848","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}