If you are a QB, then you can call offensive plays.
But he can't just guarantee a berth in the Super Bowl playoffs, as he did in 2000, and he can't just decide to call the offensive plays, as he did last season.
The purpose of comedy like this is to call out offensive behavior by putting it under a glaring spotlight, but who needs that today, when homophobes picket at soldiers' funerals, and the Internet provides a forum for any variety of hate speech that real-life racists and bigots can dream up?
While the Sunnis give the decision to call for offensive or defensive jihad to the political ruler and the scholars of religion.
I've met people from the West Indies, India, and even South America who looked to coworkers or customers slightly Middle Eastern and who were subjected to horrid treatment: name calling, offensive cartoons, moving them to the back of the workplace so customers won't see them, pranks.
Mr. Muhanna argued that the Ministry of Culture had waited too long to send the program of events, including the musical and dance acts, which he called offensive to Muslims during religious ceremonies for Imam Sadiq.
Women and men reported nearly equally (within 1 to 2 percentage points) as likely to experience physical threats, be called offensive names, be purposefully embarrassed, and to be harassed over a sustained period of time.
Scolding city officials for supporting a law he called "offensive to free speech principles," a federal judge on Wednesday temporarily barred New York City from enforcing a new law that would require crisis pregnancy centers to disclose more information about their services.
The report found that 73% of American adult internet users had witnessed online harassment - from being called offensive names to witnessing someone being stalked online.
