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”.
This is discriminatory. Equal time for “homophobic” slurs!
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
HEY! maybe they could call it flag football...
More like fag football!
Ridiculous
Why don’t they just levy a $10000 fine for each time and keep a running tally with player names on the scoreboard?
Public execution on the 50 yard line
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.
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
agree..maricon, faggot, puta.....it’s endless...
“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.
Will this rule apply equally to whites and blacks? Or is it only a slur if used by whites?
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.
What happens if you say white?
Will honky, cracker, or white boy be similarly penalized?
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.
Like ‘hate crimes’, they will only apply to certain groups but not all groups.
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.
What about the C and H words, cracker and honky?
What happens if someone uses Ninja or another substitute?
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