{"id":109,"date":"2005-03-06T11:25:11","date_gmt":"2005-03-06T15:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/03\/06\/tongue-taboo-on-back-or-breast\/"},"modified":"2005-03-06T11:25:11","modified_gmt":"2005-03-06T15:25:11","slug":"tongue-taboo-on-back-or-breast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/03\/06\/tongue-taboo-on-back-or-breast\/","title":{"rendered":"Tongue Taboo on Back or Breast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a4691'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/notgay.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"333\" align=\"left\">Consistency<br \/>\n        is the hobgoblin of small minds, but let no one accuse the folks at the<br \/>\n        NFL front offices of being small-minded. Official NFL gear<br \/>\n        licence outlets around the country are authorized to put customer&#8217;s<br \/>\n        names, nicknames or slogans on the backs of Official NFL Jerseys &#8211; with<br \/>\n        a few<br \/>\n        exceptions.<\/p>\n<p>1,159 exceptions to be exact.&nbsp; For example, if you want to wear<br \/>\n        &quot;Terrorist Fag Hitler&quot; on the back of your Patriot&#8217;s jersey &#8211; Hey, no<br \/>\n        problem.&nbsp; But<br \/>\n        if you want &quot;I Love Beer&quot; or &quot;Black Out&quot;, fuggedabouddit, unless you<br \/>\n        can find a black-market, off-the-books jersey chop shop willing to do<br \/>\n        a down and dirty job on the sly for a few extra bucks.<\/p>\n<p>Other seeming contradictions &#8211; &quot;Doggy Style&quot; is verboten, but &quot;Missionary<br \/>\n        Position&quot; is OK<\/p>\n<p>Anything with &quot;Fuck&quot; (Bumblefuck, Clusterfuck, etc.) is out, but us<br \/>\n        Yids can get away with &quot;schtup&#8221; and &#8220;schlong&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p> Even creative misspellings like &quot;Phque&quot;<br \/>\n          are on the forbidden list<\/p>\n<p>Erection is out on Jerseys, but OK on commercials<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Barf Face&quot; is bad, but &quot;Bar Fly&quot; is OK<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Budweiser&quot; is illegal, but Miller, Iron City, Rolling Rock and Sam<br \/>\n        Adams are still OK<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the list recently came up for review when fans of New England<br \/>\n        Patriots safety Randall Gay were unable to buy shirts with his name<br \/>\n        on the back. The rules were changed in his case, but fans of <a href=\"http:\/\/msn.foxsports.com\/nfl\/team\/67057\">the<br \/>\n        Jet&#8217;s Reggie Tongue<\/a> are still forced to hold their&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>article from <a href=\"http:\/\/msn.foxsports.com\/nfl\/story\/3438782\">Fox<br \/>\n          Sports<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/outsports.com\/nfl\/2005\/0301nflshopnaughtywords.htm\">COMPLETE<br \/>\n      LIST<\/a>  of banned words<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, but let no one accuse the folks at the NFL front offices of being small-minded. Official NFL gear licence outlets around the country are authorized to put customer&#8217;s names, nicknames or slogans on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/03\/06\/tongue-taboo-on-back-or-breast\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[243],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}