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mystery-ak:
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Sports/2014/02/22/Report-NFL-Expected-to-Penalize-Players-15-Yards-for-Racial-Anti-Gay-Slurs

 by Breitbart Sports 22 Feb 2014, 10:28 AM PDT

The NFL may penalize players 15 yards for racial and homophobic slurs and eject them from the game after a second offense.

John Wooten, the head of the Fritz Pollard Alliance, a group that monitors diversity, told ESPN that the he "expects the league to institute a rule where players would be penalized 15 yards for using the N-word on the field." Baltimore Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome "said the committee talked about other slurs coming under any possible new rule, including homophobic slurs."

"I will be totally shocked if the competition committee does not uphold us on what we're trying to do," Wooten told CBSSports.com. "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."

Wooten expects the competition committee "will officially agree to the rule next month before presenting it to the owners" in March during NFL meetings. Newsome said the committee and the owners have to also examine any unintended consequences that could come from the new rule. 

The deliberations come after numerous incidents involving the "N-word" last year, the Richie Incognito-Jonathan Martin incidents, and Michael Sam's recent admission that he is gay.

Chieftain:
You don't want to get me started on this in one of the public forums Myst....you oughta move this one to one of the Members Only rooms now to save you some trouble later..........

 :smokin:

mountaineer:
I suspect that it more often is a player "of color" who uses that epithet on the field than a white fellow, fwiw.

Chieftain:

--- Quote from: mountaineer on February 23, 2014, 01:15:02 pm ---I suspect that it more often is a player "of color" who uses that epithet on the field than a white fellow, fwiw.

--- End quote ---

One of the beauties of having the Red Zone channel for football is that you get to see all of the unsportsmanlike conduct calls, and it is frequently some black player getting overly mouthy with another black player, or the occasional official, who gets flagged and ultimately fined by the NFL.  I'm surprised at how adept I have become at lip reading, especially during slo-mo replays, and it is amazing how frequently certain words come out of certain mouths....

We shall see how this all plays out in the coming season.  I suspect the first gay player is going to get his ass kicked as often as can be arranged on the field and his prospects for early injury retirement are excellent....

flowers:
Good grief. I remember many, many years ago reading a article written by a  musician. He said some day here in USA we would have laws against speach. I remember reading it at the time thinking, not during my lifetime. I was wrong

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