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NFL could introduce 15-yard penalty for racial slur: Report
Toronto Sun ^ | Feb. 21, 2014 | QMI AGENCY

Posted on 02/22/2014 6:46:11 AM PST by rickmichaels

The NFL could be set for a radical rule change.

The new penalty, which will be automatic 15-yards if a player uses the N-word, is set to be introduced during the league’s owner’s meetings in March, according to a CBS Sports report.

John Wooten, who heads up the Fritz Pollard Alliance which pays attention to diversity in the NFL, says he expects the NFL’s competition committee to suggest creating a rule penalizing players who use the N-word.

The rule would also include the potential for players to get ejected from the game, if they use the word a second time.

Wooten, who was at the NFL Combine on Friday, said he wants to completely erase the word from being used in the NFL.

"I will be totally shocked if the competition committee does not uphold us on what we're trying to do,” he said. "We want this word to be policed from the parking lot to the equipment room to the locker room. Secretaries, PR people, whoever, we want it eliminated completely and want it policed everywhere."

The NFL has yet to comment on Wooten’s idea, but he remains extremely hopeful the rule will be passed because “there is too much disrespect in the game”.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: nfl; politicalcorrectness; slur; speechcodes; thoughtcrime; trashtalking
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To: rickmichaels

This is discriminatory. Equal time for “homophobic” slurs!


21 posted on 02/22/2014 6:57:27 AM PST by madprof98
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To: rickmichaels

It’s a game where the players can’t police themselves at all, where the jerks feel entitled to break out the gyrating celebration buffoonery for even the most marginally successful plays. So I guess you need rules suitable for 2nd grade elementary school students as far as language used on the field.

Freegards


22 posted on 02/22/2014 6:57:43 AM PST by Ransomed
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To: bigheadfred

HEY! maybe they could call it flag football...

More like fag football!


23 posted on 02/22/2014 6:58:07 AM PST by jimmyo57
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To: rickmichaels
Ya mean like for saying....WMF

Ridiculous

24 posted on 02/22/2014 6:58:34 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: rickmichaels

Why don’t they just levy a $10000 fine for each time and keep a running tally with player names on the scoreboard?


25 posted on 02/22/2014 6:58:34 AM PST by bigheadfred
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To: bigheadfred
HEY! maybe they could call it flag football...

Eventual corrected version:

26 posted on 02/22/2014 6:58:45 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: detective
What will the penalty be for saying faggot?

Public execution on the 50 yard line

27 posted on 02/22/2014 6:58:53 AM PST by digger48
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To: rickmichaels
There have to be rules for the rule. Is it a penalty if a black calls a black a "n*****"? Can forms of the noun, such as "niggardly" be used? Who knows? Maybe there will be no penalty for saying "you're a niggardly chap".

Why not just issue a dictionary of words that may be spoken on the playing field and in the locker room?

There are people being slaughtered in uprisings all over the world, and some big strong overpaid football jocks can't be called a bad word? Unreal.

28 posted on 02/22/2014 6:59:30 AM PST by grania
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To: Don Corleone

Only the N word? Coon, jig, Spade are ok? How about Spick, Gook? Honkey, Cracker? Don’t jump on me folks. The NFL sez that these words are ok.

CC


29 posted on 02/22/2014 6:59:56 AM PST by Captain Compassion
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To: madprof98

agree..maricon, faggot, puta.....it’s endless...


30 posted on 02/22/2014 7:00:05 AM PST by ken5050 ("One useless man is a shame, two are a law firm, three or more are a Congress".. John Adams)
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To: detective

“What will the penalty be for saying faggot?”

I don’t know, but the refs are going to have to throw a special rainbow fag flag.


31 posted on 02/22/2014 7:01:40 AM PST by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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To: rickmichaels

Will this rule apply equally to whites and blacks? Or is it only a slur if used by whites?


32 posted on 02/22/2014 7:02:16 AM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: rickmichaels

Wonder if it includes the “____A” word? Like putting “a” at the end of a censored word makes it acceptable.

BeyatchA

SlutA

Sandra FlukA

Too bad Limbaugh didn’t remember that rule a while back.


33 posted on 02/22/2014 7:02:40 AM PST by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: rickmichaels

What happens if you say white?


34 posted on 02/22/2014 7:03:04 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: rickmichaels

Will honky, cracker, or white boy be similarly penalized?


35 posted on 02/22/2014 7:03:14 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: rickmichaels
Why not just call it Sarcastaball?

http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s16e08-sarcastaball the guys wear bras and tinfoil hats, use a balloon instead of a ball and give hugs and compliments to the opposing team instead of tackling them.

36 posted on 02/22/2014 7:03:24 AM PST by digger48
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To: freeangel

Like ‘hate crimes’, they will only apply to certain groups but not all groups.


37 posted on 02/22/2014 7:04:00 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: digger48

Why not just call it Sarcastaball?

http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s16e08-sarcastaball

the guys wear bras and tinfoil hats, use a balloon instead of a ball and give hugs and compliments to the opposing team instead of tackling them.


38 posted on 02/22/2014 7:04:29 AM PST by digger48
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To: rickmichaels
The new penalty, which will be automatic 15-yards if a player uses the N-word,

What about the C and H words, cracker and honky?

39 posted on 02/22/2014 7:04:42 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: rickmichaels

What happens if someone uses Ninja or another substitute?


40 posted on 02/22/2014 7:04:54 AM PST by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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