Uh Oh...trouble brewing at the Scrabble Championships

[new2AMD]

"offensive" word

 

[moshquerade]

scrabble championships....... on ESPN...... what has the world come too?

and the word lez. i say count it. a lez is a lez is a lez.

 

[Atomicus]

quote

"The ultimate absurdity is that you can't play the word 'redskins' on ESPN," he said. "

aren't there sports teams called the Redskins? I recall hearing them say Redskins on ESPN, yet they won't allow a Scrabble player to play it?

*sigh.... how hypocritical/ignorant can American censorship get 🙁

 

[vood0g]

scrabble is cool

 

[Kelemvor]

Was just reading this article on Yahoo's new page. What a joke.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: Atomicus
quote

"The ultimate absurdity is that you can't play the word 'redskins' on ESPN," he said. "

aren't there sports teams called the Redskins? I recall hearing them say Redskins on ESPN, yet they won't allow a Scrabble player to play it?

*sigh.... how hypocritical/ignorant can American censorship get 🙁

This isn't American Censorship. There is no law for this. This is ESPN covering it's ass.

 

[Kev]

"Williams spoke with Wright and his opponent, David Gibson, then called an emergency meeting of the Scrabble Advisory Board"

Probably the most pathetic sentence I have ever read.

 

[lancestorm]

My alumnus used to be Miami University Redskins. They changed to the "Redhawks" in 1998 because the tribes were calling it offensive. They can lick em.

 

[911paramedic]

Scrabble or spelling bee on ESPN? I'll take scrabble.

 

[PatboyX]

Originally posted by: Kev
"Williams spoke with Wright and his opponent, David Gibson, then called an emergency meeting of the Scrabble Advisory Board"

Probably the most pathetic sentence I have ever read.

you are just jealous becuase you are not on the elite scrabble advisory board and dont get to hang out with the rest of the super-friends.

 

[JoPh]

any way we can get the complete list? id like to see what else is on it.

 

[darkjester]

Yeah, that'd be an interesting list to see what ESPN considers "offensive."

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: darkjester
Yeah, that'd be an interesting list to see what ESPN considers "offensive."

It's probably just a who's who of PC faux pax.

 

[CPA]

Just another reason why I don't watch ESPN anymore.

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: Atomicus
quote

"The ultimate absurdity is that you can't play the word 'redskins' on ESPN," he said. "

aren't there sports teams called the Redskins? I recall hearing them say Redskins on ESPN, yet they won't allow a Scrabble player to play it?

*sigh.... how hypocritical/ignorant can American censorship get 🙁

This isn't American Censorship. There is no law for this. This is ESPN covering it's ass.

Quite like the whole McNabb/Limbaugh thing. However, ESPN said he could use it. The tournament officials made him take it off.

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: JoPh
any way we can get the complete list? id like to see what else is on it.

I'm sure butch, dike and a few others were probably safe to use. I don't see why they didn't bring in a PC police to judge each word before it was allowed to be played.

 

[spherrod]

For you scrabble lovers!

http://thepixiepit.co.uk/scrabble/

 

[maziwanka]

dude. look at the guys picture. he looks like a psycho. hahhahaha