Tuesday, February 25, 2014

NFL set to introduce penalty for players who use the N-word during games

How amusing!  Blacks are close to the only users of the word.  Are dozens of blacks going to be thrown out of the game?  And if not, why not?

The NFL is expected to adopt penalties for using the N-word on the field that will be enacted starting this upcoming season.

A proposal currently circulating through the league’s competition committee seeks to impose a 15-yard penalty against the team of a player using the racial slur, with a second utterance resulting in ejection.

‘I will be totally shocked if the competition committee does not uphold us on what we're trying to do,’ Wooten said Saturday to a standing ovation during the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis.

‘We want this word to be policed from the parking lot to the equipment room to the locker room,’ he continued. ‘Secretaries, PR people, whoever, we want it eliminated completely and want it policed everywhere.’

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10 comments:

Anonymous said...

It would be very telling how even handed this would be applied by the NFL and the race baters. Recall the defence in the gangsta rap "music".

Anonymous said...

I watched a little bit of the NFL combine yesterday and noticed that a player was wearing a Mohawk with the tips dyed yellow. Why is it OK for the NFL to ban the "N" word but to allow this player to mock Native America culture?

Anonymous said...

a penalty for words. wow. okay.

Anonymous said...

How amusing, the blacks that police the use of "their" word are going to be policed by "the man". Slavery, redux.

Anonymous said...

Awwww, the big tough football players are going to cry if someone calls them a name. How much do you want to bet that only white players get the penalty?

Malcolm Smith said...

It will be interesting to see whether they ever get around to banning the F- word.

Anonymous said...

How about honky, cracker, red-neck or hillbilly?

Anonymous said...

How about banning the term cracker? And who decides if the word was actually said or not? Does an umpire have to actually hear it said? If not, why not? It wold become a tactic to make false accusations on the opposing team

Anonymous said...

Would love to see the players do an "I am Spartacus" response to this an every game on opening day. Not that I think the term is particularly appropriate, but boys will be boys and thugs will be thugs. And thugs, with a certain talent, is what you recruited into your league, so what exactly did you figure would happen.

stinky said...


I suspect that two things spurred this now (other than Goddell's PC nature, I mean):

1. A white player was recently recorded using the word as casually as a black one would, thus indicating just how commonplace it was.

2. The NFL wants to capture more of the game via "live sounds" by mic'ing the players, and this sort of language interferes with league marketing. Can't have that,

Be interesting to see if it's even-handedly enforced. Prob will be, cuz the first team to lose a key game when their player was penalized and an opposing playter wasn't ... well, football fans are a lot more loyal to their team than to PC correctness.