Beastmode

This could totally backfire on Goodell and whoever else started this mess. I assume people will start wearing their logo on shirts to games. It could get out of hand, having to band the logo from stadiums. If that happens their sales will take off. So in a direct attempt to marginalize the brand it actually creates a huge buzz. So much that they are able to expand into bigger markets. It could be the best thing that ever happened to Slap Yo Mama. Free publicity for months on end.

SmashMouth

Say it ain't so...

homerj07

Hah that's funny. BUT I see where the nfl is coming from. They don't anything else along those lines and people are stupid and easily offended.

The Dude

Are you kidding me?
Wow. The NFL is more backwards than I thought. I mean just wow. I hate that we live in a society where everyone is so scared they may offend someone that we have to run around censoring every little thing. Don't get me started.

TheOak

Once you open the door to activism it's open. You can't pick and chose who finds something offensive and telling someone their gripe is absurd is just doubling down on offending them.


The most dangerous illness to affect mankind resides within the mind.

QBREES9

Yeah we didn't see this coming at all.

RockyMountainSaint

Slap Ya Mama says NFL banned its Saints red zone ads amidst domestic violence concerns | Saints | The New Orleans Advocate — New Orleans, Louisiana
Cox Sports Television has told the Cajun food products company Slap Ya Mama that its in-game red zone promotion seen recently during broadcasts of Saints preseason contests at St. Louis on Aug. 8 and against Tennessee on Aug. 15 will be canceled due to concerns over the group’s name, according to a news release from Slap Ya Mama on Saturday.

Furthermore, the NFL is prohibiting all virtual signage from remaining preseason games.

Slap Ya Mama’s communique said the company’s advertising representative — Walker & Sons Inc. — received an email from Cox Media Louisiana Director of Sales Marc Leunissen informing them that “in light of the domestic violence issues facing the NFL, (the league) instructed CST (to) pull the Slap Ya Mama logo from our enhancements in the last (preseason) game,” which is Thursday in New Orleans against Baltimore. Walker & Sons says it believes the NFL told Cox Media to do this Monday.

Prior to Saturday’s news, Baltimore running back Ray Rice received a two-game suspension in the wake of a Feb. 15 arrest on accusations that he attacked and knocked out then-fiancée Janay Palmer during an argument at an Atlantic City hotel. Video footage that appeared online showed Rice dragging Palmer out of an elevator as she was apparently unconscious. Palmer — who was also arrested as a result of the row in Atlantic City — is now married to Rice.

Regardless, on Thursday, the NFL’s office sent a memo to all league teams announcing that effective immediately and for the rest of the preseason Commissioner Roger Goodell had banned all virtual signage such as the Slap Ya Mama promotion, which had been coming on screen whenever the ball first got within 20 yards of the end zone in the Saints’ exhibitions on Cox Sports Television.

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xan

I heard that there's a new West Virginia barbeque sauce called "Rape yo' Sista/Momma." Clearly regional sensibilities have to be attended to by the NFL. If we don't find domestic violence a problem in LA, why not incest in the Appalachians?

Come on guys, this isn't even a close call.

Jack Vegas

LOL, please tell me you are kidding.

WHODATINCA

Nope, he isn't kidding. Neither am I.

As long as we can even remember the scourge of hanging black people in the South -- "Hang A Boy", the white supremacist clothing line, isn't going to be OK, either.


If you think even humorously alluding to slapping your mother is funny -- you are a knuckle-dragger. Domestic violence in the country is a pervasive problem. Our language matters because it can subtlety transmit the approval of discrimination and the perception of inequality.

White people can't call black people the N-word either -- that's just how it is -- maybe you should try to get used to it. I assume you gentlemen here understand why -- and no -- it isn't because some large man might beat the living snot out of you.

Let's see if you can get used to being on the right-side of history and this particular issue.

And, please don't tell me I don't understand -- because I am from New Orleans.

Shutdown defense in 2017 = Championship!