Complete insanity. You have a league whose players routinely call each other either the N-word or MFer, and more often than not, both, but take umbrage first, that the President besmirched their mothers (the old 7th grade tactic used on playgrounds to shame the unsuspecting) by saying, “Fire the SOBs,” and now take umbrage at the mangling of a saying that’s been around for almost 100 years (though they’d object just as much to the non-mangled saying) because they find their honor besmirched. This on top of objecting to being called a big boy or a gorilla which equally applies to the likes of JJ Watt and Vince Wilfork because they are massive human beings (6’5”/290 and 6’2”/325, respectively) and zip to do with skin color, but that didn’t prevent those terms from becoming verboten as now inmates has become.
Can you demonstrate an example? I have never heard an NFLer use that word publibly.