[TheZMan]

This is so freaking childish.

The word is “nigger”, not “n-word”.

We have become a nation of thin skin, limp-wristed children.

[Vaquero]

Ooooo a hate play.

The NFL has become a doooooshbag league.

[Alberta's Child]

There's a side to this story that didn't get any mention in the article.

This move, along with the one announced a few months ago regarding penalties for profanity, is aimed at cleaning up the language on the field for the sole purpose of adding enhanced live-mike audio to NFL broadcasts. The ultimate application of this would be for NFL fans watching a game on television to have the option to select players on the field from their homes and listen to them during the game.

You can't have that sort of thing with all sorts of "n!ggas," "eff this," and "eff that" on the field.

[yoe]

Political Correctness on the 50-yard line?....rudeness, taunting, name calling, is part of society, free or not...the only place such utterances are not common is in a Communist country or a Dictatorship. These PC Police don’t mean well; they mean to silence and cripple free people. Rude is Rude! Get over it.

[a fool in paradise]

Just for saying Washington Redskins???

[InterceptPoint]

Welcome to the NEW NFL.

[P-Marlowe]

A lot of Black Players are going to be penalized. Some of these Black NFL players can’t go two sentences without using th N Word along with a couple of MF bombs.

They may have to invent a new kind of mouth guard that prevents them from using the Ni sound followed by the grr sound.

[freedumb2003]

So “Peckerwood” is 20 yards?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEWIomU-K3w

DEAD HONKY!

[Organic Panic]

What a niggardly punishment.

Will czarina of linguistics Rachel Jentael will be on call to listen to the instant replays?

[P-Marlowe]

If the had an all white NFL that would eliminate the problem. I haven’t heard a white person use that word in decades.

[Mike Darancette]

It’s only 5 yards for “Cracker”.

[Arrowhead1952]

I can hear Rush talking about this on his Monday show....

[fso301]

There's a lot more to this. Just go to your kid's high school game, sit in the stands/bleachers and take note of who in the spectator's area is using the word and in what dialect it is being spoken.

[dennisw]

How about a free 15 yards if the offensive team all yells out “Adam and Steve, not Adam and Eve!!” And “I’m gay and I’m proud”

[TomServo]

You know what we need?

Tourette’s league football...

[bolobaby]

All animals are equal, some are just more equal than others.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Would it still be legal to use the H word, or use the K word?

[tips up]

Black players use it as a term of endearment. Will they be penalized too? Or only if a white player utters the n-word? What about white african americans like our president?

[FlingWingFlyer]

I’d like to see them get a 15 yard penalty for wearing pink instead.

[JimRed]

But, I thought that was a term of endearment when used by those with the protective coloration. They seem to use it upon one another all the time!