Is this satire? If not, the teams will be going backward into negative yards territory stats.
It's clear from this that the NFL considers possible hurt feelings on a par with, say, concussions (which if you think about it are "possibly life-threatening"). This is inanity at the highest level!
It's advocacy. It's what the Fritz Pollard Alliance wants to happen. And saying they expect it to happen is a way of making it happen. Or maybe it's just a way of getting the Alliance's name in the papers.
I don't see it happening. Just banning one word without banning other racial slurs or insults, that is. A majority of the players in the NFL are African-American. Is there going to be a penalty when one player accuses another of "playing like a White girl"? I don't think so. And what is football without trash talk?
BTW, they ought to use "Fritz's" real name, Frederick Douglass Pollard. "Fritz Pollard Alliance" sounds too much like some neo-Nazi group.
Not if it only applies to white or non-black players. They’re trying to say that it would apply as a racial hatred thing, so that they can wriggle out of having it apply to a black player saying it against another black player.