Posted on 08/08/2013 12:26:26 PM PDT by US Navy Vet
That is one sorry endzone dance.
No more Lambeau leap?
“What’s next? Telling the fans to be quiet?”
or telling the fans and drink tea instead of yelling.
Walter Peyton thought different.
Look up what Walter Peyton said about end zone celebration. Classic!
I think baseball has it’s share of jerky stiffs who would LOVE to break out the jerky self-congratulatory chest-pounding and dancing/pointing garbage after a good play is made, but they don’t dare. Nobody wants a heater in the back next ab or down the road. Football needs something like that, but the game isn’t designed that way, especially with the modern penalty system. Maybe the best they can do is have a rule saying ‘don’t do that, jerk’.
Freegards
Hey Goodell... Why don’t you concentrate on reducing the number of felony arrests and fatherless children by your players and quit “pansifying” the game of football, you limp-wristed, self-righteous, egotistical northeastern libtard.
Paul Brown to Bob Trumpy after he scored his first NFL touchdown and spiked the ball: “Next time you find the end zone act like you’ve been there before.”
The NFL has clarified that this policy restricts taunting the opposing team members. Military salutes and thanks to God will not be interpreted as poor sportsmanship as long as gestures are not directed toward players.
This is supposed to be about good sportsmanship.
Are they still gonna allow kick-offs or just let the offense start at the 20 yd line?
Gosh, one wouldn’t want to get too excited if they score a TD, make a key interception, or win a clutch game. Why not scrap the pads and just go with touch football?
These “guys” prance around the end zone like a bunch of Kansas City fa**ots!
I was a friend of WP, and he was a classic individual, through and through.
Always gregarious, always a gentleman, and he worked harder at his job than anyone I knew (he had a giant rugged hill built on his property that some neighbors complained about, but he would run up and down that thing an hour a day. We could watch him from our kitchen window). He could have bought me several times over, but never would you have gotten than impression. He was the most humble person you could imagine.
He had several very nice cars he had gotten from Kangaroos, Lamborghini’s in the 80’s (purple), but he never that I knew of drove them around. He kept them in the garage, maybe he had to keep them for contract reasons or something. He drove a camry if I remember right, or some such sort of car. His wife had a Rolls and a big black Benz.
I miss him dearly as a neighbor and a friend. He was one of a kind.
He would jog around our side of the neighborhood (behind his house, so a good 2 mile run around the area to get to us), and even before we were introduced to him (although we knew who HE was the day he moved in), he would stop and reset his watch or running thing on his wrist on our entry way to our home. After resetting his watch thing, he would toss our newspaper up the drive and over our gate a good 40 yards or so.
In this day in age, athletes are asses, and I bet you couldn’t get an autographed football or jersey from most without paying for it.. He sent all the kids on our block Kangaroos one year (I’m sure they were free, but it was the thought that counts) My oldest was 7 when he passed away. He will never know the greatness that was WP.
I have many stories of WP and his generosity from our community and the charities we have belonged to over the years. Many anonymous donations while he was alive and such PLUS the WP foundation after his passing. He was a great athlete and an even greater man.
No the rationale is that excessive celebration takes time and is boring for everybody not the jackass dancing around in the end zone. Get on with the game.
ok i’ll bite
what’s a Kangaroo?
Sure they will..../s
NFL players celebrate after every tackle or reception. It gets really old.
I don’t care as much as I did when younger. It’s just another game with a ball, and it really doesn’t affect tomorrow.
That fits with what I have heard.
Sorry! 15 Yards! Excessive Celebration!
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