Robert Griffin III as a college football analyst is...FIRED BY ESPN

[texasdago 7544]

2 hours ago, bullet said:

The j word was bad before the n word was bad.

Uhm, n word has always been bad and the j word... man, haven't heard that in a while but 

[Vic Mackey 46804]

Also, RG3 did this lol. 

 

[Vic Mackey 46804]

Here's a news anchor using the same word and a little history of the word itself. The black anchor definitely gave out an uncomfortable laugh when she said it.

 

Edited December 13, 2022 by Vic Mackey

[cmontexas 3234]

Imagine being this desperate to gotcha your omnipresent woke enemies

#mentalillness #gethelp

[Vic Mackey 46804]

And to those who said his co-hosts were oblivious and had no idea what it meant? Fucking lulz. Their faces after he said it. Like wtf did you say.

 

[Tex Pete 20098]

I have heard the term used a fair amount over the years, but almost always by a black guy referring to another black guy or group of black guys in a disparaging manner.

I think we should all have more mercy on people for misspeaking or even saying something offensive without meaning to offend. Society would be better off if we weren't all trying to "gotcha" each other all the time.

[Guadaloopy 10890]

4 minutes ago, Vic Mackey said:

And to those who said his co-hosts were oblivious and had no idea what it meant? Fucking lulz. Their faces after he said it. Like wtf did you say.

 

To be fair, Booger always has that look on his face.

[pacman 7279]

1 hour ago, Vic Mackey said:

It slipped, if that's true, he regularly uses it enough for it to slip.

You keep using assumptions as if they are facts. They aren't. They are just your uninformed opinion.

Edited December 13, 2022 by pacman

[David Dennison 18428]

I was really hoping he had said honky.

[MirrOlure 14552]

Obviously he was starting to say “Jabronis” but his brain was stuck on “Bugaboos”

[CfRhTxStBobcats 594]

1 minute ago, Tex Pete said:

I have heard the term used a fair amount over the years, but almost always by a black guy referring to another black guy or group of black guys in a disparaging manner.

I think we should all have more mercy on people for misspeaking or even saying something offensive without meaning to offend. Society would be better off if we weren't all trying to "gotcha" each other all the 

I've been aware of the word for years, but the only time I remember someone use it was in 1983, my freshman year in college. I lived in a dorm that year and there was these 2 guys from Houston that looked like aggy corps cadets. These guys were straight up hard core racists. I found out after a while everyone referred to them as "The Nazis". Last I heard they both dropped out and became HPD officers. Really surprised I haven't heard about these guys being involved in a George Floyd type situation. Real pieces of shit. 

[WinningIsHard 3978]

15 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

To be fair, Booger always has that look on his face.

I think that's steve young on his right, and he always has that expression on his face as well. Freeze it at the beginning and they are both making the exact same face. I think its fuckin funny and we should be more like George Carlin. Pussies 

[BigOrange1 6403]

30 minutes ago, cmontexas said:

Imagine being this desperate to gotcha your omnipresent woke enemies

#mentalillness #gethelp

lol no shit.

[WhatTheBuck 28694]

This word came up in a different thread. Someone mentioned that they’d never heard the word before. I mentioned that I first heard it in this episode of All in the Family.

 

[59 Burst 434]

Over a 17 year period I heard that word at every military base we were ever stationed at. Not so much anywhere else. 

[Da Fino 2715]

I’m surprised more of y’all haven’t heard that song by Johnny Rebel.

[Spankytoes 1734]

 

[52-80 19041]

3 hours ago, txhorns said:

Him not using it correctly doesn’t matter, he still said it.  

Call me crazy but i think intent matters a great deal

[FORTY NINE TO ZERO 2627]

Hmm  didn’t even know what was word.  
like, I think it remember hearing it before in my life, but no idea where it when.  

[Herpa Derpa 6102]

3 hours ago, ButtFumble said:

that is the first shit I thought of

this is the scene when a friend of mine and I looked at each other and got up and walked out of the theater

it was "half price Thursday" at the dollar theater and we both felt we had been fucking ripped off

we made sure to choose movies more carefully after that when we were bored as shit

what a horribly shitty movie even for a spike lee "jam"

Something tells me you weren't the target audience.

[Horn80 6017]

It was a mistake.  Cancel culture sucks.

[DougO 5238]

Why does he hate Canada?

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bugaboos

 

[Cheeseweasel 26437]

Maybe he was looking at the cheerleaders and meant to say jiggle boobs.

[Al_4_ISU 12382]

The county I grew up in literally had no black people at that time, and I was aware that it (jig) was a slur towards black people.

I didn't think of it as on the level of the N word, but more like referencing ghosts and raccoons as racial slurs.  But I'm a white guy who didn't really know a black person until I was 15 so.

[Sgt Hulk 13543]

Damn I haven’t heard that since the 80s lol.  But only white folks get in trouble for racist shit so nothing to see here. 

[markstanco 12461]

43 minutes ago, FORTY NINE TO ZERO said:

Hmm  didn’t even know what was word.  
like, I think it remember hearing it before in my life, but no idea where it when.  

[Henry Hill 3156]

What will the cholas think?

[Helobious 9459]

11 minutes ago, Sgt Hulk said:

Damn I haven’t heard that since the 80s lol.  But only white folks get in trouble for racist shit so nothing to see here. 

I guess I just dreamt Kanye losing all those endorsements then…

[closetohumping 17339]

I can tell some of you aren't from the racists streets like me.  That's a term one should not sling around.

[hook me 2039]

56 minutes ago, FORTY NINE TO ZERO said:

Hmm  didn’t even know what was word.  
like, I think it remember hearing it before in my life, but no idea where it when.  

[Vic Mackey 46804]

1 hour ago, 52-80 said:

Call me crazy but i think intent matters a great deal

So if I say the n word instead of trigger, bigger, chigger, etc it wouldn't matter? The word is the word no matter the context. RG3's explanation that he meant to say 'bug-a-boo' also doesn't fit in the context of what he was saying. He said this word instead.

[Vic Mackey 46804]

43 minutes ago, Horn80 said:

It was a mistake.  Cancel culture sucks.

I don't think I've seen anyone furious over this and wants him off the air. More just people in jest saying 'if this was a white person then....' I created this thread for the laughs because it was pretty ridiculous and comical he used a deeply rooted slave term from way back then on live tv and floored many listening, including his co-hosts. 

He made a social media apology and we'll see if ESPN makes him apologize on air ala Lee Corso but this is kind of a non story, just a weird ass soundbite. From a very weird dude.,

[C-Man 26908]

5 hours ago, gsoda3 said:

i have never heard that term before.  how bad is it?

It's not good. My grandfather used to say it all the time. It's probably just below the n-word and right in there with another slang word for black people that starts with a C.

 

5 hours ago, 'stache said:

 

Don Imus said it in reference to this movie in his stuff about the Rutgers women's basketball team that got him fired. It's been out there.

Don was fired after calling the Rutgers women's basketball team "nappy-headed hoes."

 

4 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

I just wish it had been Marc Jones who said it.

True that.

[52-80 19041]

4 minutes ago, Vic Mackey said:

So if I say the n word instead of trigger, bigger, chigger, etc it wouldn't matter? The word is the word no matter the context. RG3's explanation that he meant to say 'bug-a-boo' also doesn't fit in the context of what he was saying. He said this word instead.

A persons character — the body of their historical conduct — and what can reasonably be inferred as their intent (did they aim to demean or harm?) matters a great deal more than a single flub 

[Beau Vine 53837]

27 minutes ago, Sgt Hulk said:

 But only white folks get in trouble for racist shit so nothing to see here. 

 

[MissingInAction 24708]

I don't think that moron has any idea what he is saying at any given time.

I chalk this up to pure unadulterated stupidity.

[66BUFF 2541]

21 minutes ago, Helobious said:

I guess I just dreamt Kanye losing all those endorsements then…

[Crapinon 2244]

5 hours ago, SHOOTER12 said:

 

Yep it's bad, REALLY bad.

I haven't heard that phrase in about 60 years. 

Yeah, I'm thinking it's a 1940's or 50's thing, maybe older. 

[ousux 5581]

I admit, this is a new one for me. I had to listen 3 times to tell what he was saying and still don't recall ever hearing that before..from whites or blacks.

[RomaVicta 29688]

45 minutes ago, 52-80 said:

A persons character — the body of their historical conduct — and what can reasonably be inferred as their intent (did they aim to demean or harm?) matters a great deal more than a single flub 

The clip seems pretty harmless to me. I don't think he was even really referring to persons who were all black.

He should apologize for using an offensive word that both he and his employers do not condone. My mind could be changed by general outrage from the black community; they're better and more appropriate judges than me. I'll go with their opinion.

[Billy Pilgrim 1890]

4 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

People don’t watch Police Academy any more?  I think I saw it’s on Netflix. 
 

isn’t that what he calls hooks for running over his foot in the cruiser?

Yup- captain Mowser (sp?) call Hooks a “dumb fat j-“ in Police Academy. Really the only time I’ve heard the word used.

 RG3 was talking so fast trying to get his point across that I think his mouth started moving faster than his brain. I buy his explanation that he was going “bugaboos” but it was because he was talking to fast to come up with a better word like haters or doubters.

[Ignatius 3990]

Ehdue

Edited December 13, 2022 by Ignatius
Drunk

[Ignatius 3990]

Just now, Ignatius said:

 

Man, I guess it was a West Texas thing but I’m 56 and the (unfortunately numerous) racist branches of my family tree used that word (usually in abbreviated form) frequently. It was one of several phrases people used in place of the hard N because good Baptists aren’t hateful….

[bullet 1596]

1 hour ago, 52-80 said:

A persons character — the body of their historical conduct — and what can reasonably be inferred as their intent (did they aim to demean or harm?) matters a great deal more than a single flub 

When has that mattered to cancel culture?

[Cairn Horn88 8134]

6 hours ago, Vic Mackey said:

That term is a racist term whether you have heard it or not. Being oblivious to a racist term doesn't make any difference. It's been phased out in most vocabs but the meaning didn't go away. I honestly didn't know there was that many people who didn't know about this word. It went viral as soon as he said it. 

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jigga boo

I’m guessing there’s a lot of posters on here who have never heard the term….could be wrong…..haven’t heard it used/said in many moons!

After seeing this, I told my wife, Sapphire….holy mackerel!

 

[freyguy 4243]

[Kennythetiger 9315]

2 hours ago, FORTY NINE TO ZERO said:

Hmm  didn’t even know what was word.  
like, I think it remember hearing it before in my life, but no idea where it when.  

What?  

[Ignatius 3990]

25 minutes ago, bullet said:

When has that mattered to cancel culture?

So should Chris Beard get a bogey cuz he only smacked his bitch up that one time?

Edited December 14, 2022 by Ignatius

[Kennythetiger 9315]

7 hours ago, Michael Knight said:

According to destiny's child a bug a boo is a pest, someone who won't leave you alone 

Beyoncé could call me whatever she would like. 

[52-80 19041]

5 minutes ago, Ignatius said:

So should Chris Beard get a bogey cuz he only smacked his bitch up that one time?

please explain, in a way someone sober would understand, how these things are supposed to be comparable or analogous?