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Originally Posted by jettio

I saw Michael Wilbon on a PTI clip overly upset about Goodell not suspending Riley Cooper.

I like how FIFA soccer and the pro leagues suspend players and sanction teams who fans make racist cheers, but if the NFL were to adopt some policy for racial slurs that were said at work or away from work then there would be a big argument about whether racial epithets that refer to the player's own race should result in suspensions.

I don't see how the NFL could justify overlooking some use of forbidden racial words based on the race of the person who says it.

I remember Carl Pickens got into some hot water for saying something to Mike Woodson about his mixed-race parents during a game. That was years ago and may have been a fine, but I don't think there was a suspension.

The biggest difference is the time and place. The soccer players, are doing this stuff while in uniform during games. Not to excuse what Riley Cooper did. But in reality, the NFLPA could of fought this on Riley Coopers behalf, and probably won. He wasn't at an NFL event, or Facility, he was on his own time. Now, of course they wouldn't do that, the NFLPA player president, is Dominique Foxworth, and uh, he aint white, plus his is unacceptable behavior anyways. But I love Wilbon, and that's just Wilbon being Wilbon, its to be expected.

I find it hilarious though. I have HEARD during games, the N***A word thrown around at packers games, and at bucks games, during the games, between players of like races. I don't think that's acceptable EITHER. You are just encouraging inequity.......