2014 Point & Laugh At The taterskins Thread

[Eagaholic]

FCC considers banning Washington name from broadcast TV
Posted by Mike Florio on September 30, 2014, 9:01 PM EDT


With the blackout rule now scuttled, the FCC can turn its attention to another NFL-related item of business:  Preventing broadcast networks from using the name of the Washington NFL franchise.

On Tuesday, FCC chairman Tom Wheeler said that the league will be considering a petition filed earlier this month alleging that the term is indecent.

"We will be dealing with that issue on the merits, and we will be responding accordingly," Wheeler said, via the National Journal.

George Washington University law professor John Banzhaf argued in the petition that the term constitutes a "racist, racially derogatory word."  A decision that the term is indecent would block over-the-air networks (CBS, FOX, CBS, and ABC) from using the term.  The word could still be used in cable broadcasts.

But it wouldn't matter.  A ruling from the FCC that the term is indecent would force the NFL to change the name.

To be clear, acknowledgment that the issue will be addressed doesn't mean that the FCC will decide to characterize the term as indecent.  But it may, and that would be far more significant than today's ruling that the little-used blackout rule no longer can be enforced by the NFL against the networks.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Yep, on Facebook every year I note his birthday and his passing.  One of my friends, and I can understand her point, asked, "Did you know him?"



My response, "Does it matter?"



They just don't get it.

I watched it and I started balling

Yeah, I thought I was prepared; I wasn't.  Seeing Tana like that was like seeing your own dad cry.



Part that caught me off guard was watching his last play and remembering being there against Philly.  I just remember thinking, "It's Sean, he'll be back in a couple weeks."  Nope.

[MDS]

he played there for 3.5 years

thats it

jesus

[SD]

He wasn't that good, either

[ice grillin you]

he was damn good.....but they still were 26-30 while he was there and he got kicked out of half the playoff games he ever played in

[SD]

He could certainly lay the wood but he was a liability against the pass.

[MDS]

they keep referencing that eagles game...i remember that

it was week 17 of the awful 05 season that donovan ruined by being a farging bitch. the qbs in that game were mike mcmahon and koy detmer. what a great win for the washington nfl team.

[PhillyPhreak54]

That's their rally cry game over there...2005 against the Eagles

Almost ten years ago and they're talking about it like t was a Super Bowl run

[PhillyPhreak54]

http://bit.ly/1mVcHdY

lol these iceholes were celebrating the Baker hit on Foles and now they want the Giants safeties suspended for knocking their TE out?

Please.

More proof that Mara has undue influence on the the NFL (as if the cap penalty wasn't enough).  Merriweather was suspended two regular season games for a blow with the shoulder.  The giant's safeties led with the head on Niles Paul and knocked him unconscious. The Washington media and fanbase should be taking the NFL to task for this gross double standard

[ice grillin you]

it was a disgrace that that hit drew a penalty much less wanting a suspension for it

[PhillyPhreak54]

Agreed.

But Mara hates them! And it's because of the name! Wahhhh

[ice grillin you]

if mara wanted the name changed it probably would have already happened....hes almost the defacto commish of the league

[Eagaholic]

Not even to mention that their DBs (Amerson was one) went head hunting on both McCoy and Sproles, trying to concuss them and almost succeeding with McCoy.

[Eagaholic]

Orakpo only has half a sack
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[General_Failure]

That's as many as Casey Matthews.