Player use of N-Word: 15 yard penalty?

This could be hilarious! Player A scores the winning TD and celebrates with his teammates by referring to his bro as a "N" word. The refs throws the flag and gets on the mic.

 

"15 yard penalty and loss of TD for referring to his teammate as a nigger".

 

At some point, old men have to understand that society will change. That word means a whole lot less than it used to. That's a good thing, John Wooten. Stop empowering the damned word for nostalgic reasons.

 

 

It's stupid to try to govern this.

 

What if it is a black player to black player?

Black player to white player on same team?

On the sidelines?

 

The refs can't handle the rules they have and now the league wants to have some old white dude tell a black man 30 or more years younger that he can't say n*****?

 

 

 

99% of the time it will come from the mouth of a black player.

A good discussion from last November.

Jason Whitlock is fond of calling out athletes he deems to be overweight. Dude is no hypocrite, that's for sure.

Chris let's us whities know when it's OK. (NOT FOR WORK CLICK)

 

 

This whole PC thingee is just plain STUPID!  So it's not okay to use the N word, but calling someone a MF is okay?  Why don't we regulate what color underwear must be worn (or better yet, no underwear at all)!

Sensors on TV/Radio will bleep or fine the use of **** or ****, but let god dammit fly.

 

Chase / Pryor

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yeah, jeezus kriste on a cracker.  (hi JJSD)

I can't even imagine one of these old cracker refs ever having an axe to grind or having difficulty hearing or mishearing someone from the stands and ruining the outcome of a perfectly fine game.  nah, that'd never happen, right?

 

NFLFU

       

       
Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder:

       
Please please please can we finally get past the 1960s!  There's no reason why what was a cultural touchstone for the Boomers ought to be a touchstone for the rest of us.

Exactly. If I want to refer to Iowa Cheese as a nigga lover, my right.

“I think it’s used as a term of endearment between players, and I think it’s so much a part of pop culture and culture in general that it’s going to be very hard to eliminate that from the game,” Packers linebacker Clay Matthews told Dan Patrick on Tuesday.  “I think is more something that should come from the locker room, organization, and team leaders to remove it if they see fit.

 

“This is an emotional game played by tough men who obviously are a little crazy in doing so,” Matthews said.  “I think this is going to be a very fine line as far as where this stops, when you start eliminating language from play. . . .  It’ll be very difficult.”

This is probably a bit simplistic... but it seems to me that context would be the issue.  In the example with Eddie that packerboi gave earlier, that's one thing.  The context with which this whole issue is supposed to be addressing is quite another.  I'm from the North, but I've lived in the South most of my adult life, and even a country boy like me can tell the difference.  Call the bad stuff "unsportsmanlike conduct".  Same penalty, but it goes after improper intent.  Doesn't that handle it?

What if they call somebody a Redskin ?

 

That's a racial slur too...

Mongrel and Chimpanzee is not.

Nor is meth head.

Hi.

Can't we let teams police this internally?

 

Except the Dolphins, of course.

 

I must have missed the memo about calling someone honkey. And if it's only a 5 yard penalty for calling someone "cracker" is that discrimination and if so who's getting a raw deal? I'll take my answer off the air.

 

What Black Honkey said.

 

I wonder what the hand gestures will be for the refs?

Official "Racism. Number 75. 15 yards. repeat secon.... correction... Racism number 65. 15 yards. Repeat 3rd down"

 

Joe Buck "Well that's interesting, there is no number 75 or 65 on the field Troy"

 

Troy "Well your exactly right Joe. If there was it would be a shame for number 75 to have to explain why he's a racist when clearly.... he's not"

 

This is going to be fun.

What about other names? 

 

5 Yarders:

 

Spook

Spear-chucker

Yard Ape

 

10 Yarders:

 

Jigaboo

Porch Monkey

Jungle Bunny

Spoon Lips

 

We haven't even gotten to the Mexicans, Italians, Jews or the gays yet.

 

What if you tell the ref a black joke?

 

AJ Hawk: Ref, did you hear about the black boy who got diarrhea?

 

Ref: No, AJ, I didn't, and by the way, YOU SUCK!

 

AJ Hawk: Yeah, I know.  Bong tells me in his letters.  Anyway, he thought he was melting!

 

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

 

Is that a 12-yarder?

 

Sooooo stupid.

Clay Matthews's view:

Packers linebacker Clay Matthews thinks it will present a challenge.

 

"I think it's used as a term of endearment between players, and I think it's so much a part of pop culture and culture in general that's it's going to be very hard to eliminate that from the game," Matthews said on the Dan Patrick Show. "I think is more something that should come from the locker room, organization, and team leaders to remove it if they see fit."

 

Matthews also pointed to the heated nature of the sport as an additional challenge when it comes to enforcement.

 

"This is an emotional game played by tough men who obviously are a little crazy in doing so. I think this is going to be a very fine line as far as where this stops, when you start eliminating language from play ... It'll be very difficult."

What about coloreds?

Would a call against a white guy calling another white guy "Nigga"  be reviewed and then over turned because "There was no foul (or brotha) on the play?"

Proper term is "Negro"

 

Jesus, you're behind the times.

Spear-chucker is worth 10 yards? Fond of dudes thinks it should be worth 100. He is really offended by that word.

Not sure if there are any Orientals in the NFL but I assume Slant Eyes would draw a penalty.  And Native Americans called Prairie Niggas.

As an Italian-American, I was once called a "Spaghetti Nigg...r"

 

I DEMAND Roger Goodell ban that phrase.

 

It's hurtful.

 

http://www.urbandictionary.com...m=spaghetti%20nigger

Can we just call you a wop instead?

Why don't Italians have zits on their faces?

 

Because they slide right off their faces with the grease!

 

BWAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!

 

 

12.5 yards for racism - 2.5 yard credit because of that whole Mussolini thing.

You shoulda seen how on-time the trains were.

What if some team signs a South African punter?  Is kaffir going to be penalized?

 

Jerry help us if some guy named Devonte Goldstein ever makes it into the league.

Spaghetti Nigg..r ...I like that. Well worth the read.

 

I have some Eye Talian cousins...I'm gonna have to bust this one out at the next get together.