"Yankees suck" constitutes profanity?

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:32 PM -0400 5/26/11, Ben Zimmer wrote:
>Here we go again...
>
>http://www2.tbo.com/sports/rays/2011/may/25/7/this-yankees-hating-shirt-got-rays-fan-in-trouble-ar-232531/
>
>--bgz
>
I was going to say that in Boston, half the fans in Fenway Park would
guess that "Yankees Suck" is Scripture.  But that becomes clear later
in the article.  "Banned outside of Boston", it appears.

LH

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