Player use of N-Word: 15 yard penalty?

Piss off. I'd rather be known as black cracker.

Wanna see a really vigorous denial of a penalty? Imagine #55 is black, calls one of his boys nigga and the ref calls the racism penalty by mistake on #65, a white player.

Did you cry?

I'm Italian.

We cry easily.

Wake the "F" up Paisan!!

That made me cry.

And we want to know why and where some of the all-time stupid rules originate from.

What ever happened to, sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me?

That made me cry.

Even if Charles Nagy ran a 4.2 40 and repped 45 in the bench at this years combine he would go undrafted. Too much risk. 

So, who's going to start a thread with the title:

"List All of the Derogatory Names Given to African-Americans"

Of course we could watch the classic Chevy Chase/Richard Pryor skit from the first season of SNL.

or

"List All of the Derogatory Names Given to Japenese-Americans"

or...etc...

at least let's get it out of our system so we can move on from 20th Century Americana...and move into 21st Century NFL.

This thread is fantastic.

Talk about reinventing the N-wheel. All these things were precisely what the comedian Pryor claimed at the beginning of the 1970s when he made a conscious decision to splatter his routine with the word. In his autobiography, "Pryor Convictions," he said, "Nigger. And so this one night I decided to make it my own. Nigger. I decided to take the sting out of it. Nigger. As if saying it over and over again would numb me and everybody else to its wretchedness. Nigger. Said it over and over like a preacher singing hallelujah."

Pryor claimed, "Saying it changed me, yes it did. It gave me strength, let me rise above ..."

Pryor rose to commercial stardom. Like many African-Americans, I bought his albums in my teens and early 20s, and no one was more brilliant on a dazzling variety of political and social topics. At a more immature time, he seemed to me a rugged complement to my Bill Cosby family-life albums.

As the 1970s wound down, it was spectacularly evident that embracing the N-word did not give Pryor the strength to rise above demons. His dismal childhood among whorehouses and barroom violence in Peoria, Illinois, mushroomed into Hollywood drug binges and threats to wives at gunpoint.

My black friends, particularly women, grew weary of his persona and his equally offensive use of "bitch." I stopped buying his albums.

Amazingly, Pryor matured on this issue, making me sing hallelujah. In 1979, he flew to Kenya. It was a trip recommended to him by his psychiatrist after his wife Jennifer hauled him out of a house full of hookers and drugs.

After touring Kenya's national museum, Pryor sat in a hotel lobby full of what he described as "gorgeous black people, like everyplace else we'd been. The only people you saw were black. At the hotel, on television, in stores, on the street, in the newspapers, at restaurants, running the government, on advertisements. Everywhere."

That caused Pryor to say: "Jennifer. You know what? There are no niggers here. ... The people here, they still have their self-respect, their pride."

In "Pryor Convictions," Pryor said that he left Africa "regretting ever having uttered the word 'nigger' on a stage or off it. It was a wretched word. Its connotations weren't funny, even when people laughed.

"To this day I wish I'd never said the word. I felt its lameness. It was misunderstood by people. They didn't get what I was talking about. Neither did I. ... So I vowed never to say it again."

Of course we could watch the classic Chevy Chase/Richard Pryor skit from the first season of SNL.

Yes we could and should.

the way to win back to back Super Bowls, hire an openly gay black coach, when the refs make bad calls they must be racist / homophobic

Link to his youtube page. He at times, has some interesting views.

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