Abusive language on the field

[SamBuckhart]

Drones over the stadium and microphones/cameras  mounted on all facemasks so every whisper and mumble under breath can be recorded. Electrodes could be attached inside the helmet to catch every bad thought too. Could be made available to the general public so rappers could wear it inside a hoodie.

[SooiecidetillNuttgone]

rodger is killing killed a game I love

FIFY.
A good portion of HIS rules have put skirts on QBs, overly aided offenses, and thoroughly hamstrung defenses.

[MuskogeeHogFan]

Someone says "white guys should use it too?"  There's no cosmic rule that says white guys can't use that word, too.  But players police themselves, they always have.  That's the point most of us are trying to make.  The commish needs to stay out of it, and quit trying to regulate something that is already regulated by the people for whom that word is intended to offend.  If for no other reason...he's white for Pete's sake.  Stay out of it.

Amen.

[toshortrock]

man up,this not a cheerleading sport,,,

[Hogarusa]

Most of you are over reacting to what is a common sense penalty and rule.  In no way is Goodell ruining the NFL.  It's stronger and more popular then every other sport alive in America. 

[MuskogeeHogFan]

Most of you are over reacting to what is a common sense penalty and rule.  In no way is Goodell ruining the NFL.  It's stronger and more popular then every other sport alive in America. 

Most of you have no idea what is spoken on the field of play or by whom. This isn't anything that needs to be legislated or monitored. It is simply a PR play for public consumption and PC.

[WilsonHog]

Read the thread, and now I'm trying to figure out why I should care either way.

I don't think I do. Can't see how it will impact me at all.

[MuskogeeHogFan]

Read the thread, and now I'm trying to figure out why I should care either way.

I don't think I do. Can't see how it will impact me at all.

Exactly, it is BS and PC in the purest of forms.

[SooiecidetillNuttgone]

Most of you are over reacting to what is a common sense penalty and rule.  In no way is Goodell ruining the NFL.  It's stronger and more popular then every other sport alive in America. 

My God the logic fallacies that abound.  Just cause Roger "Preen for the Cameras" Goodell has a popular product doesn't mean that the product is better, or more consistent, or more fair.  It just means that a young generation of men and women that grew up with football are replacing the older generation that didn't grow up with it on TV and have less of an appetite for it.
OR......It's become a way to meet guys better
OR......It's an awesome way to have an excuse for a party and BBQ.
OR......Fill in the blanks.

What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right.

Howard Cosell

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[LZH]

Read the thread, and now I'm trying to figure out why I should care either way.

I don't think I do. Can't see how it will impact me at all.

.....said the Jews before Hitler took over in the early '30's.                             

[hardtimes79]

Yeah, he is ruining it so bad that the NFL is absolutely crushing all forms of programming in television ratings, breaking records every single year.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/01/06/as-usual-nfl-playoffs-draw-huge-tv-ratings/

You realize that tv ratings are up but attendance is down.  Tv ratings are up because of the improvements of telecasts and the crazy amount it costs to attend a game.

[DukeOfPork]

You are calling me out, aren't you?

Who are you?

[LSUFan]

PB&Js at halftime would probably stop all this nonsense.

[DukeOfPork]

I don't think I said anything about "the sissification of football". I did say that I didn't feel like we needed a third party to step in and regulate anything. Let the coaching staff handle these things. And later in the thread I pointed out that the only players that I ever heard utter what could be considered a racial epithet in a HS or College game, practice or in a locker room, particularly the use of the "N" word, were black players speaking to other black players. That is common.

So on one hand you are right, this is making a great deal about something that is bascially nothing, but not in the way you meant it. On the other hand, because it is just another move by the PC Police wanting to regulate yet another aspect of life that has existed for decades, if not a century or two, they need to find something more important to utiilize as their latest quest to protect us all from ourselves. There are much bigger fish to fry.

Doesn't matter who is saying it.  The NFL has determined that they don't want to be associated with - or seen as tolerating - certain words being used.  The way to go about that is not by telling coaches to police their own.

[DukeOfPork]

A bunch of PC cry babies. 

This sort of stuff will eventually ruin the game. Football is a violent, aggressive game. If aggressive behavior bothers you, go watch ice dancing or something!

Again, we are talking about racial epithets.  Just in case you think we're talking about the F word or something like that.

Yes, you can still cuss a dude out.

[DukeOfPork]

Someone says "white guys should use it too?"  There's no cosmic rule that says white guys can't use that word, too.  But players police themselves, they always have.  That's the point most of us are trying to make.  The commish needs to stay out of it, and quit trying to regulate something that is already regulated by the people for whom that word is intended to offend.  If for no other reason...he's white for Pete's sake.  Stay out of it.

I honestly cannot imagine a legitimate argument against the NFL saying "use the N word on your own time; we will not have you being caught on mic saying it on a nationally televised game.

This should be a non-issue.  I have no clue why you guys think removing racial epithets is "killing the NFL we know and love."