{"id":131401,"date":"2025-09-09T23:36:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T23:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/131401\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T23:36:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T23:36:12","slug":"since-when-did-it-become-acceptable-to-use-the-f-word-on-national-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/131401\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSince when did it become acceptable to use the F-word on national television?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tCaroline Wilson says Seven and AFL should have had words after a number of F-Bombs were dropped in game broadcasts.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince when did it become acceptable to use the F-word on national television after a prime time footy broadcast?\u201d Caroline Wilson this week asked The Agenda Setters.<\/p>\n<p>It follows a number of F-bombs dropped during Live AFL broadcasts last week.<\/p>\n<p>Collingwood star Nick Daicos and senior coach Craig McRae swore on the Seven broadcast after the Magpies beat the Crows in Adelaide on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday Mabior Chol dropped several more after Hawthorn beat the Giants in western Sydney, before quickly apologising.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday Caroline Wilson raised it on air saying, \u201cI don\u2019t care if people think I\u2019m a wowser after the brilliant performances of Collingwood and Hawthorn over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the language of some of their group after the game\u2026 that was so out of character for Nick Daicos and it hardly felt off the cuff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCraig McRae felt almost deliberate. I don\u2019t want to make light at all, or seem glib, about the Izak Rankine scandal but it almost felt like Collingwood had their own F-word theme going in to that game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd Mabior went with his three times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut most disappointing and amazing is that the AFL hasn\u2019t batted an eyelid. Surely swearing like that on a national broadcast would have at least prompted a phone call from either head office or even the Seven Network, reminding McRae, Daicos and Chol that swearing like that is just lowering the standards for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So did Seven, which as a broadcaster raised the matter on air, actually reach out to the AFL to express concerns?<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not clear.<\/p>\n<p>TV Tonight contacted Seven for comment.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cSince when did it become acceptable to use the F-word on national television after a prime-time footy broadcast?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udde3\ufe0f Caroline Wilson on post-game F-bombs from the first week of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AFLFinals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#AFLFinals<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QGwqpA4EPQ\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/QGwqpA4EPQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 7AFL (@7AFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/7AFL\/status\/1964994206197289076?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 8, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caroline Wilson says Seven and AFL should have had words after a number of F-Bombs were dropped in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-131401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}