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jnhay
April-24th-2010, 12:37 PM
Matt Millen playfully called Ron Jaworski a "Polack" and they made him apologize in the next segment. Are you kidding me? TVLand can replay "All in the Family" every day, where Archie uses the word in a derogatory way, but one slip by Millen makes ESPN freak out!
Stophovr6
April-24th-2010, 12:44 PM
Millen should have to apologize all the time. For everything.
maxiep
April-24th-2010, 12:47 PM
I wish the NFL would grow a pair.
AirMayo21
April-24th-2010, 12:49 PM
what happened to "sticks and stones (not to mention 300 lb linemen) will break my bones, but words (not to mention stupid crap like this) will never hurt me"?

Political correctness will be the downfall of this country.
Tom [Giants fan]
April-24th-2010, 01:05 PM
Matt Millen playfully called Ron Jaworski a "Pollock" and they made him apologize in the next segment. Are you kidding me? TVLand can replay "All in the Family" every day, where Archie uses the word in a derogatory way, but one slip by Millen makes ESPN freak out!

All in the Family was filmed during a much different time. You have to be very politically correct now or unemployed.
jnhay
April-24th-2010, 02:04 PM
;7485953']All in the Family was filmed during a much different time. You have to be very political correct now or unemployed.

I just find it funny how hypocritical these executives can be. New shows aren't allowed to have a guy using a racial term, but we can replay the old shows as much as we want because they're classics!
SuperSkin6
April-24th-2010, 02:48 PM
Millen should have to apologize all the time. For everything.

This^^
ACW
April-24th-2010, 02:57 PM
what happened to "sticks and stones (not to mention 300 lb linemen) will break my bones, but words (not to mention stupid crap like this) will never hurt me"?

Political correctness will be the downfall of this country.So if someone called a black guy the N word it'd be okay with you?
pvkeeper19
April-24th-2010, 03:02 PM
The apology was more uncomfortable than the comment. Mostly just because it was more time Matt Millen spent on the screen.
Paulie Walnuts
April-24th-2010, 03:03 PM
I saw it live and I was wondering if anyone would say anything about it.

The funny thing here is that Millen made a harmless joke about both himself and Jaworski, who are both pollocks.

It was harmless, but thats the day and age we live in. Political correctness, or die.
pvkeeper19
April-24th-2010, 03:06 PM
FYI: the slur is properly spelled "Polack" in English, from the Polish Polak.
ECU-ALUM
April-24th-2010, 03:31 PM
;7485953']All in the Family was filmed during a much different time. You have to be very political correct now or unemployed.

Very true...with everyone worried about being P-C there is no way "All in the Famiily" or "Blazing Saddles" would be made today.
SittingBull
April-24th-2010, 07:12 PM
Please video anyone.
blue collar
April-24th-2010, 07:34 PM
Very true...with everyone worried about being P-C there is no way "All in the Famiily" or "Blazing Saddles" would be made today.

Or The Jeffersons.
aszumilo
April-24th-2010, 10:11 PM
I find it more offensive, as a polack, that one of the worst drafters in league history is covering the draft.
SAli457180
April-24th-2010, 10:13 PM
Millen should have to apologize all the time. For everything.

Exactly. Especially to the Lions.
War Paint
April-24th-2010, 10:22 PM
The apology was more uncomfortable than the comment. Mostly just because it was more time Matt Millen spent on the screen.

Yeah, I caught the apology today but I didn't know what it was about. I was like wtf was that.
jnhay
April-25th-2010, 07:00 AM
FYI: the slur is properly spelled "Polack" in English, from the Polish Polak.

Thanks, I had no idea how to spell it but google managed to find the correct definition anyway.
ncsuFB27
April-25th-2010, 08:02 AM
Millen continues to screw up on Draft weekend
Darrell Green Fan
April-25th-2010, 08:09 AM
These is a big difference between a scripted show that is intended to make fun of the character's shortcomings and an off the cuff comment on national tv. Personally I don't think it's a big deal but I am not Polish. Everyone knows you can't say stuff like that.
FunBunch7
April-25th-2010, 01:07 PM
After the apology, Millen should have said, "P.S. I very much apologize to the city of Detroit for the many drafts I effed up and set them up for an 0-16 season. It was my every intention to win at least 2 or 3 games per season and for that I'm sorry."
Taylor 36
April-25th-2010, 03:09 PM
There are people everywhere today that are LOOKING for things to be offended about. That is the product of a Politically Correct society. No one can laugh at themselves or take a non-threatening or playful joke any more. In today's world, people of all races and ethnicity are supposed to be offended even if they're not sure what was said. It is sad, and it is something that people should be trying to change rather than embrace. But, as one can see by a few posters in this very thread, the brain-washing of the PC Liberals is a long way from being eradicated.
RFKFedEx
April-25th-2010, 03:21 PM
Very true...with everyone worried about being P-C there is no way "All in the Famiily" or "Blazing Saddles" would be made today.

Or Animal House. Imagine life without that movie.:(
Taylor 36
April-25th-2010, 04:15 PM
Or Animal House. Imagine life without that movie.:(
"Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life." :ols:
Bang
April-25th-2010, 07:44 PM
How is it there's no video of this
I've go to have this!

(BTW.. as to the OP, Archie Bunker was supposed to be over-the-top bigoted. That was the point. He illustrated beautifully how ignorant it is by being as prejudiced as that. Archie is one of the greatest characters in TV history.)

~Bang
TK
April-25th-2010, 07:56 PM
When I saw the thread title I thought he had apologized to the Detroit fan base.
Dead Money
April-26th-2010, 02:48 PM
Very true...with everyone worried about being P-C there is no way "All in the Famiily" or "Blazing Saddles" would be made today.

I dunno... the guys from southpark, familyguy, cleveland, simpsons, american dad, and on and on and on get away with tons worse everyday.

The major networks pick and choose their battles pretty carefully unless its animated.

Maybe we should animate espn talking heads so everyone can just say whats really on their mind? Bang! there's your next project, you frank caliendo and some racial epithets! Party time!

What a bunch of pansies.:flowers:

(see I used a smiley {an animated one} so its cool...)

Apes will take over this planet inside of 50 yrs at the pace we're going. Worry about something that matters. :pfft:
DisgruntledLionFan#54,927
April-26th-2010, 02:50 PM
When I saw the thread title I thought he had apologized to the Detroit fan base.

He'll never do that. Ever. In fact, he is on record saying that the fans used him as a scapegoat for everything under the sun, which is completely off base and simply laughable.


In Detroit, they need a bad guy. I was a bad guy. I was to blame for the fall of the auto industry and the housing market. Somehow, I had something to do with [Detroit mayor] Kwame Kilpatrick [resigning], although I'm not sure what. But that's what happens when you lose in this game. You give everyone a cheap and easy story to jump on.
ciresolstice
April-26th-2010, 03:47 PM
How is it there's no video of this
I've go to have this!

(BTW.. as to the OP, Archie Bunker was supposed to be over-the-top bigoted. That was the point. He illustrated beautifully how ignorant it is by being as prejudiced as that. Archie is one of the greatest characters in TV history.)

~Bang


^^^ Exactly! someone gets it.
Dan T.
April-28th-2010, 09:21 AM
Clearly a lot of people on here never saw - or didn't "get" - All in the Family.
jnhay
April-28th-2010, 09:27 AM
(BTW.. as to the OP, Archie Bunker was supposed to be over-the-top bigoted. That was the point. He illustrated beautifully how ignorant it is by being as prejudiced as that. Archie is one of the greatest characters in TV history.)

~Bang

Trust me, I know this. I watch the show all the time. I'm only saying that it's totally hypocritical to find the show acceptable to air, with all it's racial slurs, and then force Matt Millen to apologize because he was trying to be funny. Yeah, they're not the same networks etc., but this happens so often that I think I'm find to generalize the popular TV networks. Fictional character or not, it's still the same word they're using.
ntotoro
April-28th-2010, 09:31 AM
Matt Millen playfully called Ron Jaworski a "Polack" and they made him apologize in the next segment. Are you kidding me? TVLand can replay "All in the Family" every day, where Archie uses the word in a derogatory way, but one slip by Millen makes ESPN freak out!

If I were Jaworski, I'd have asked Millen the same question, based on his years in Detroit... ;)

I kid, I kid

If that got the NFL in a tizzy, they'd have never made it through "Gran Torino."