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Who will be the Phil Robertson of the NFL? How close he came actually

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Likely no one. Duck Dynasty is merely a TV show; generally there's more political incorrectness allowed at that level. The NFL, however, is a megabusiness and there pressure to conform to political correctness is much greater, in part because megabusinesses have a lot more money that lefty pressure groups can shake them down for. Also, we tend to regard football generally, and the NFL in particular, as a sort of incarnation of basic Americanism, and as silly as it is to make a totem of a sport that way, it leads to heightened demands that the NFL offend no aggrieved group in our society, cf certain Amerindians who caterwaul about the team name of the Washington Redskins.