FOX Sports' Online Censorship Goes Batty
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
FOX Sports' "This Week in History" page on their website has gotten a little too strict when censoring words today. Rand Ball sent me a link asking me what I saw when I scrolled down to Jan. 29, 1936, and I couldn't stop laughing. Here's the quote and photo....
Jan. 29, 1936: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Walter BLEEP , Christy Matthewson and Honus Wagner are announced as the first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame.If you click on the bleeped out name of Walter "Johnson" it sends you to FOX's censorship page. Apparently the word/name "Johnson" has other meanings...what possibly could they be???
This date in sports history: First baseball HOF class (Rand Ball)
This Week In Sports History (FOX Sports)
8 Comments:
It means "throbbing penis". I'm here to help.
//Amaechi
I bet they always refer to him as Richie Allen
Perhaps if it had said "Walter's Johnson" it could be justified. Oh never mind, whoever censored that should get smacked around by an enormous BLEEP.
Better not be anyone named Dick Johnson Wang.
What about an old school NASCAR article that references Dick Trickle?
In basketball articles, they mention players like Rudi BLEEP and BLEEP Zhi-Zhi.
No way that Rusty Kuntz is making that Fox website.
Fox Sports is truly amazing in this regard. Where else can you see "suspicious spelled "suBLEEPious"? Seriously.