[grania]

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.

[Verginius Rufus]

“Niggardly” is completely unrelated to “the N-word.”