Tom Brady sparks outrage with offensive term on Fox broadcast
NY Post
Tom Brady raised some eyebrows with his commentary while calling the Bills-Seahawks game on Fox Sports on Sunday.
Brady — who’s in the first season of his 10-year, $375 million contract with the network — was discussing the growth of Bills quarterback Josh Allen, when he said the two-time Pro Bowler previously played like a “spaz” before he became more controlled under center.
“Sometimes he played like a spaz, like a grade-schooler on a sugar high,” Brady said on the broadcast towards the end of the first quarter while Buffalo had a 7-0 lead over Seattle. “But now he’s controlled the chaos. He’s like a storm coming into town and you don’t want that storm coming into this town.”
The term spaz is a shortened form of the word spastic, which means clumsy, stupid, or losing physical or emotional control.
It is used in some circumstances to describe medical conditions.
It is offensive to some as it is considered to be an ableist slur used for jokes and metaphors to dehumanize those with disabilities.
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