Lawyer for coach who resigned for Brooklyn football team's use of 'Nazi' against Beachwood pushes back

The attorney for former Brooklyn City Schools Head Football Coach Tim McFarland is calling the situation that led to his resignation a sign of"political correctness run amok" and said the use of the word"Nazi" during a football game against a team in Beachwood was by"no means an anti-Semitic slur."

Earlier this week, Beachwood Schools Superintendent Dr. Robert Hardis detailed behavior reported during the conference rival match-up. He said Brooklyn’s team was repeatedly using the word “Nazi” to call out a play. To illustrate his point, McFarland's lawyer included in his statement a scanned copy of a handout provided at a coaching clinic held by the Ohio High School Football Coaches Association in the 1990s that lists"Nazi" as one of five"blitz control" calls.

Hardis said the term was not used during the second half, but late in the game, the home team reported several Brooklyn players using a racial slur throughout the night. Pattakos's statement does not address that allegation. "Should Mongolian grills be banned from the U.S. and Mongolian beef removed from all restaurant menus due to the atrocities committed by Ghengis Khan? Should every American football coach, player, or fan who uses the word 'blitz' lose their jobs and be tarred as anti-Semites as well?" Pattakos said in his statement.

While McFarland is mindful of the atrocities committed by the Nazis in the holocaust leading up to World War II, the idea that someone would be offended by hearing the commonly used pass-protection call “Nazi” at an American football game had not occurred to him until his counterparts on the Beachwood sideline brought the issue to his attention in the second quarter of last Friday’s game.

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