They Won't Use the F-Word

Note to Seattle Times editors: We think you are taking this "Seattle nice" thing a bit too far. Huskies head football coach Tyrone Willingham was fired today, not "forced to resign." When AD Scott Woodward says, "We made the decision to terminate him," you don't get much more fired than that. UPDATE: In the first hours after Willingham's firing, most local news organizations were using the word 'fired' in related stories on their websites. Later in the day, Fox13, KING, KIRO and KOMO all have edited their stories from 'fired' to 'forced to resign'. How cute.

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Well, there is in fact a difference between the two, linguistically and legally.

well regardless, something had to be done. our team is a big pile of poo in 2008.

The Seattle nIce way to fire him would have been to just make plans with him, bail at the last second for no reason and then never hang out with or call him again.

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