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NFL Cancels Slap Ya Mama’s Red Zone Promotion

:rolleyes:

Yank a perfectly good sponsor off the air over semantics and a figure of speech that you don't understand.

But the guy who mercilessly beat his wife and dragged her around by her hair just gets a two-game suspension.

Way to go, NFL.

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It offended the Slapahoe tribe.

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Complete and utter BS BullCrap. It's downright sickening the level of contempt for anything that does not invoke feelings of Disneyland and Care Bears, coming from one of the most violent sports of all time.

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Maybe we could get Hanes to sponsor the red zone and we could call it the Hanes Wifebeater T Shirt Red Zone! Or how about the Zatarain's Dirty Rice red zone in honor of the guy who is responsible for the NFL suddenly becoming so concerned with domestic violence.

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Did anyone NOT see that coming? I could see it five miles away!

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If the Ravens didn't harbor so many freakin' law-breakers on their roster, we wouldn't have this problem. I will admit that any red zone overlay does annoy me, but this local company is stepping up to support our team and is now a victim of overly sensitive whiners.

On another note, I'm offended over Rice Crispy cereal because it has "Rice" in its name since that advocates a person who is being charged with domestic violence and it also offends me because it advocates crack cocaine with its "Snap-Crackle-Pop" theme. Reckon the "Saints" will have to become the "Nondenominational Persons" with this precedence at this rate.

"Spiritual Being of Your Choice" or "No Affiliation with Spirituality" help us all. I'm gonna go choke myself.

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This is totally ridiculous.

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So lets recap...

A product suggesting that you strike a female.
A commercial featuring a black family.

I'm more shocked that this was ever allowed to begin with. Its so frigging wrong on numerous levels of PC.

I'm 100% positive that the next step will be liberals demanding that the Company change the name of their product.

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Maybe they can change it to slap the sheet out of Roger Goodell.

Did I spell that wrong?


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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.

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Say it ain't so...

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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.

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Next the liberals will refer to looters as undocumented shoppers!

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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.

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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.

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Yeah we didn't see this coming at all.

Der Fuhrer bans Saints Slap Ya Mama Red Zone!
 

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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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.

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LOL, please tell me you are kidding.

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Yes, the name is offensive to people who have been out in the sun too long and have a football team in Washington!

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I just had some Slap Ya Mama on my rice.

I didn't feel like hitting anyone.

Mine must be broken.

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Xan, it's actually "Marry yer Sister/Momma/Grammaw. Totally acceptable condiment for ol' Rog...

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(New York) The National Football League announced today they have copyrighted the phrase, “No Fun League”. According to league sources, they copyrighted the phrase for two main reasons. They first considered doing it in order to increase their revenues even more as the use of this phrase has now come into common use across the fan base. Secondly, their pool of lawyers has become so adept at frivolous lawsuits regarding other copyrighted infringements that the league feels pursuit of damages in this regard will be easier than taking candy from a baby. When asked for comment, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell replied, “If you can’t beat’em, really beat’em.”

On a further note, the league also announced the phrase, “Taking candy from a baby,” is now going to be changed to, “Easy as heck” because it could be construed as promoting domestic violence to some viewers.

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I thought it was pretty stupid and distracting to begin with.

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There is a lot of potential here for this thing turning into a smashed beehive. Everybody in NO already hates him for one. Now he decides to attack our culture and deem it offensive. Hey RG, somebody just skipped slapping their momma and shot their chest to preserve their brain for research...look in the effin mirror.

Maybe the bees calm down, who knows but if he starts banning shirts or whatever else, that's pure nitrogen on a bonfire.

If he were smart he'd stop at the field endorsement ban . He's not smart.

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These are the same idiots who took phrases like "knock their heads off" literally and suspended the entire gulf south region for it.

They were apparently raised on a planet where everyone is morally perfect and don't know the first thing about slang or sarcasm, or rhetorical statements. CLEARLY this other world must exist, because I have never known anyone in my life who couldn't understand these incredibly simple and harmless sayings.

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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.

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Precisely the train of thought that got it banned.

The branding "Slap ya mama" is so absurd you can't interpret it anyway other than humorous. It does not allude yo abusing your mother, if your from South Louisiana then you know even looking at your mother from the side of your eye would get you a world of hurt. It alludes to how delicious her cooking would be if she used the seasoning.... Back slapping, slap on the back good.

But hey... I'm with you, let's ride the train to LunacyVille USA.

These get banned as well. No sense promoting any sort of beat or beet.
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We can proactively take it one step further and from this point on the word "hit" can never be used in regards to anything NFL again. We shall replace it with "spirited contact".

"Jeff, did you see that spirited contact that Gallette had with Matt Ryan!"

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no sense humor

PC has gone to far

next up the term PENETRATION

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Nope, not "penetration", but .... "Penetrate ya little girl or ya little boy" is quite a different matter.

Here are the hard facts:

-- One in 4 women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime ( that's 25%!! of all women )
-- Women experience more than 4 million physical assaults and rapes because of their partners, and men are victims of nearly 3 million physical assaults.
-- 85% of domestic violence victims are women.
-- Women are more likely than men to be killed by an intimate partner
-- Women ages 20 to 24 are at greatest risk of becoming victims of domestic violence.
-- Every year, 1 in 3 women who is a victim of homicide is murdered by her current or former partner.

So, what's the problem gentlemen? Are you afraid that half your comic repertoire is going to have to be canned?

Or are you afraid you won't be able to be conscious enough with your words to be respectful?

Or do you just not want to spend the energy to try to learn how to be respectful?

You learned how to be respectful with the N-word. How about the W-word now ( often mispelled hoe ).
Do you really want men referring to your daughter, sister, or mother as a hoe? Really?

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Ingredients: Salt, Red Pepper, Black Pepper, Garlic. No MSG 8oz. Nothing abusive.

My wife, mother, and mother-in-law all laugh at the name, if it were offensive to anyone in its market area it wouldn't exist because those women wouldn't buy it. You do realize that this is not He-asoning? It is seasoning, and what are the over whelming majority of grocery shoppers that buy this? Females and I am sure a huge % of them are mothers as well.

It seems that it is offensive to you, but not any women that I know. You are championing a cause with out a victim. But hey... Rodger after giving Ray Rice a 2 week suspension just changed the rules to 6 months for a first offense and a whole season for a second offense. Bravo huh?

Tell me one NFL players wife that is going to give up a years pay and report? None brother... Goodell and the NFL just drove this issue under ground.

Thanks Ray Rice!:dunce:

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For what it is worth, no female called in offended. Roger and some of his goons figured that on the heals of RayRice it didn't give the right image.

There are no female victims involved in this, only a few corporate suits concerned about the perception of their image.

Perception of image..... Could there be a collection of words with less substance? Random echos are not worth exploring.

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You are going off the deep end. You know who invented Slap Ya Mama? AN OLD CAJUN LADY. IT SAYS SO ON THE SIDE OF THE CAN!! You know who came up with the name for it? HER DAUGHTER-IN-LAW!!! My mom, my sister, and my wife all buy the stuff. Nobody has ever thought it nefarious in any way, and hell my wife is the most left-leaning PC person I have ever met.

And I have no idea why in the hell you would even bring the n-word into it. You are just trolling here.

As a black (half-black, high yellow, whatever you want to call it) person, I am far more offended by your ridiculous analogy of the n-word than anything anybody has said about slapping their momma about some rice and gravy or something. I'm not offended because it's racist, I'm offended because it's just flat-out the stupidest thing I've read in a minute.