I'm generally in favor of being professional when it matters, like the NBA dress code for example. I'd even be ok with eliminating the n word in the locker room, since that's more like an office than the field. But the main difference between my workplace and an NFL field is it's abnormally high-pressured and violent. It is hard to legislate what is said in those moments. I may be able to meet my work deadline without flying off the handle and calling my partner the n word, but I also don't have jadaveon clowney trying to rip my head off. And if I'm a quarterback who just got drilled by clowney because my offensive lineman missed an assignment, it's entirely possible my ears would be ringing and mouth bleeding when I immediately yell "NIGGA CAN YOU PLEASE BLOCK HIM?!" In that sense I think it would be understandable and I'd hate to be flagged 15 yards something like that in the heat of the moment.
I'm generally in favor of being professional when it matters, like the NBA dress code for example. I'd even be ok with eliminating the n word in the locker room, since that's more like an office than the field. But the main difference between my workplace and an NFL field is it's abnormally high-pressured and violent. It is hard to legislate what is said in those moments. I may be able to meet my work deadline without flying off the handle and calling my partner the n word, but I also don't have jadaveon clowney trying to rip my head off. And if I'm a quarterback who just got drilled by clowney because my offensive lineman missed an assignment, it's entirely possible my ears would be ringing and mouth bleeding when I immediately yell "NIGGA CAN YOU PLEASE BLOCK HIM?!" In that sense I think it would be understandable and I'd hate to be flagged 15 yards something like that in the heat of the moment.