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RebChuck

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"Don't jiggabug around there! Go north and south there...."

It was a good run while it lasted, Chucky.

Ala Howard Cosell in 1983, Gruden just made a similar statement on MNF. Hopefully for Gruden the people like him better than they did Cosell.
 
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You know, just to put this in there, I had a whole mess of crepes this morning. They're just like pancakes, maybe even better.
 
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KurtRambis4

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I guess

he thinks it may be construed as offensive, what Gruden said. I'm not so sure anyone with half a brain will agree.
 
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I'm pretty sure that is not a slur, and google doesn't even know what it is. It's simply a poor pronunciation or understanding of "jitterbug" which is not offensive to anyone. I take more offense every time anyone says the "offense needs to get untracked" because no they don't, trains don't run well off the track. They need to get ON TRACK.

/rant hijack
 
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dawgphd

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KurtRambis4 said:
he thinks it may be construed as offensive, what Gruden said.
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I agree. My guess is the original poster has misconstrued Gruden's "jiggabug" to be "jiggaboo"

With apologies in advance to anyone that may be offended, I bring forth from the all knowing Urban Dictionary..."A term often used in the Southern regions of the United States in reference to African-American individuals that possess a darker than average skin pigment"

I can't remember the last time I heard the word spoken, however for the generation of folks born in the early 1900's through the mid 1900's it was probably a fairly common but not necessarily frequent part of the southern vocabulary.
 
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It's pretty obvious the word Gruden is using is "Jitterbug".
 
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Howard Cosell ...

Noname said:
"Don't jiggabug around there! Go north and south there...."

Ala Howard Cosell in 1983, Gruden just made a similar statement on MNF. Hopefully for Gruden the people like him better than they did Cosell.
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had a huge ego and explained in his book, I Never Played the Game</SPAN>, that he was the way he was because he needed to be 'noticed' to be successful in the announcing game, he wasn't an athlete and he didn't play the 'corporate suck-up' game. He made controversial statements and had a lot of enemies but he was good at what he did. Many loved him ... many despised him. During what was his last year he made a ‘perceived racial comment’ and he left MNF at the end of that season.</SPAN>
Here is ‘how’ it is explained on Wikipedia ...</SPAN>

During the Halftime Highlights segment of Monday Night Football on September 24, 1973 Cosell said "Look at that little monkey run!" when describing a 97-yard kickoff return by Washington Redskins player Herb Mul-Key during the Sunday game against the St. Louis Cardinals. There was no outcry over this comment.
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However, during a Monday Night Football telecast on September 5, 1983, Cosell said of Washington Redskins wide receiver Alvin Garrett, "That little monkey gets loose, doesn't he?" The Rev. Joseph Lowery, then-president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, denounced Cosell's comment as racist and demanded a public apology, but Cosell refused, citing his past support for black athletes and stating that "little monkey" was an affectionate term he had used in the past for diminutive white athletes (including Mike Adamle, for whom Cosell was on record using the term 11 years prior), as well as for his own grandson. Cosell left the Monday Night Football booth following the 1983 season, citing his waning interest in professional football.</SPAN>
 
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dawgphd said:
I agree. My guess is the original poster has misconstrued Gruden's "jiggabug" to be "jiggaboo"

With apologies in advance to anyone that may be offended, I bring forth from the all knowing Urban Dictionary..."A term often used in the Southern regions of the United States in reference to African-American individuals that possess a darker than average skin pigment"

I can't remember the last time I heard the word spoken, however for the generation of folks born in the early 1900's through the mid 1900's it was probably a fairly common but not necessarily frequent part of the southern vocabulary.
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Apparently Gruden has been cane pole fishing in the South. A jiggabug are the bugs on top of the water hauling *** everywhere to get away from the fish....................
 
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