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Audible obscenities in sports coverage

It's a joy to hear the stump mikes regularly and the onfield banter. I'm aware it's a sporting arena and there will be swear words. To be honest I'd rather hear the odd swear on the pitch rather than the mindless chanting and swearing from football crowds every match
 
In this day and age, I think it's ridiculous that someone should be offended by a 'swear' word. Why is such a word more offensive than any other? For example the word 'penis' has many other descriptives, some regarded as swear words, but the same meaning behind each of them. Why is one worse than the other? Surely the way something is said, the context and perhaps the aggression behind it is more what people should have a problem with? The only words I think should be off limits and that people should have a problem with are those attached to race or ethnicity.
A few weeks ago after the Brighton v Boro game Boro's Adam Clayton was interviewed and the reporter made him apologise for saying "We worked our ...derived from testicles, think sex pistols album... off for team." Not a swear word for me and would doubt he would have had to apologise if he used the actual word testicles. Madness.
 
I was ball spotting on the final day at the 1995 open on the 17th St Andrews - Gentle Ben Crenshaw thanked me for finding his ball, then after inspecting the lie - asked a BBC sound guy to move away with his mic before cursing in a manner that was very much at odds with his reputation - always liked him a bit more after that.
 
I'm sure I'm correct in recalling, when as an amateur Shane won The Irish Open, and being unused to the cameras on him he so intently, he gave Malcolm Tucker a good old run for his money.

Seem to remember the Sky commentators apologising every two minutes.:o
 
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davidy233 said:
I was ball spotting on the final day at the 1995 open on the 17th St Andrews - Gentle Ben Crenshaw thanked me for finding his ball, then after inspecting the lie - asked a BBC sound guy to move away with his mic before cursing in a manner that was very much at odds with his reputation - always liked him a bit more after that.
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Great story...
Perfect conduct from a true gentlemen...
 
We might be comfortable with it, in the right company, but if you're say with your grand daughter watching thr footie on TV and she asks what does <pick a word> mean it just doesn't sit right with me.

Out on the course, after a run of bad shots, I can let rip. It vents the tension/pressure but I wouldn't do it in a mixed... I guess, to be honest, I'd just rather not hear it.
 
I was inside the ropes at a PGA Tour event in Tampa earlier this year when an un-named Ryder Cup player walked past me pretty loudly repeatedly saying one word that rhymed with truck about his missed birdie chance.
 
Much of the 'banter', to be heard around the crease, would be deemed unacceptable in most workplaces...
So, don't see why the broadcasters deem it necessary to bring it into my front room...
 
My old man would say that It's not what you say it's the way you say it that matters. So for instance he didn't like the DIY TV advert which had the tag line We've got the Jewson lot as it was obvious what the word Jewson actually represented and how the line was supposed to be interpreted and understood. But there you J_____ go (using the traditional Biblical way of not actually putting a word into print)
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
My old man would say that It's not what you say it's the way you say it that matters. So for instance he didn't like the DIY TV advert which had the tag line We've got the Jewson lot as it was obvious what the word Jewson actually represented and how the line was supposed to be interpreted and understood. But there you J_____ go (using the traditional Biblical way of not actually putting a word into print)
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What on earth are you on about this time? The ad was presumably made at the behest of the company itself, Jewson. And the name of the company was the surname of the man who created the company in the 1800's.

Are you seriously suggesting that the company was using their own forefather's surname as some sort of religious slur in a TV advert, really???

You need to go lie down in a dark room somewhere.
 
ger147 said:
What on earth are you on about this time? The ad was presumably made at the behest of the company itself, Jewson. And the name of the company was the surname of the man who created the company in the 1800's.

Are you seriously suggesting that the company was using their own forefather's surname as some sort of religious slur in a TV advert, really???

You need to go lie down in a dark room somewhere.
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Ger think you may have misinterpreted what Hogan meant, nothing religious about it, substitute the word jewson for flippin or any other word of a more colourful nature.
then you might be getting close
 
ger147 said:
What on earth are you on about this time? The ad was presumably made at the behest of the company itself, Jewson. And the name of the company was the surname of the man who created the company in the 1800's.

Are you seriously suggesting that the company was using their own forefather's surname as some sort of religious slur in a TV advert, really???

You need to go lie down in a dark room somewhere.
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Lol.

Nil out of ten for your reading analysis skills.
 
PhilTheFragger said:
Ger think you may have misinterpreted what Hogan meant, nothing religious about it, substitute the word jewson for flippin or any other word of a more colourful nature.
then you might be getting close
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Indeed he did.

And my mention of J_____ was simply an aside to note that use of abbreviations or contractions to avoid offence is not at all new as I have seen old copies of the Bible where the word LORD is not printed in full but contracted to L___. But then I guess YHWH (spoken as Yahweh) would be confusing. And somewhere along the line the use of asterisks came in.
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
My old man would say that It's not what you say it's the way you say it that matters. So for instance he didn't like the DIY TV advert which had the tag line We've got the Jewson lot as it was obvious what the word Jewson actually represented and how the line was supposed to be interpreted and understood. But there you J_____ go (using the traditional Biblical way of not actually putting a word into print)
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FCUK got a whole brand out of sounding very nearly extremely sweary.
 
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