Posted on 10/27/2015 9:34:39 AM PDT by Freedom56v2
MEXICO, N.Y. – Mexico High School quarterback Dante Turo believes it’s God who gives him the strength and abilities to be successful on the football field.
The junior team leader often points skyward after big plays as a tribute to the Almighty, and his 73-yard run for a touchdown against Vernon-Verona-Sherrill Oct. 17 was no exception, Syracuse.com reports.
The solemn celebration, however, apparently didn’t sit well with one referee, who flagged the teen for unsportsmanlike conduct and assessed a 15-yard penalty that ultimately cost his team the game.
“I was just trying to give glory to God,” Turo told the news site. “I didn’t feel like I did anything wrong or anything that would merit … unsportsmanlike conduct.”
Turo appeared on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” with his father, Geno Turo, last Thursday to discuss the incident.
“Pointing up to God is kind of the international symbol of giving praise to Jesus, and that’s all I was trying to do,” Turo said.
“He wanted to do something at that moment to take credit away from himself and give glory to God,” Geno added. “God gives us the ability and the talent. As Christians, we want to be sure to give that back immediately.”
Mexico coach Tee Murabito told Fox News he thinks the ref made the wrong call. In the end, Mexico lost 33-31 in the regular season finale.
“I tried to explain to the referee that threw the flag and the head referee, but they just said, it’s taunting,” Murabito said, according to The Washington Times. “I told them he was praising God. How is that taunting?”
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...showed a clip of Turo’s touchdown to an athletic director, a longtime football coach and a football referee for feedback and none of them believed the referee made the correct call...
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Did you even see the video? I’m guessing not. Calling the penalty was PRE-PLANNED. The ref was waiting for the kid to score...and how did the oh-so politically correct ref know he was praising God? Millions upon millions of kids have pointed with one finger to the sky for lots of reasons and now it’s taunting?
Get your head out of the politically correct sand. And you call yourself a FReeper?
We really are being hamstrung by cultural marxists. There is an ever growing list of verboten words. Now we have an ever growing list of verboten gestures. Don’t jump up and down, don’t slam the ball in the end-zone, don’t point up, don’t point your finger at anyone, don’t get down on one knee, don’t bow your head, don’t clasp your hands together. More and more the attempt to to strip out any spark, any hint of an individual, to snuff out the very soul.
More and more the attempt to to strip out any spark, any hint of an individual, to snuff out the very soul.
You are right. Seems freedom of speech, freedom of religion are dying due to PC! As you note, they have now added gestures (as well as names) to things that must be controlled. Seems we are all to be part of the “herd” :( No individuality :(
It’s also taunting those who run the government and the state church for the same reason. But I repeat what you said.
“celebration’ penalty
The Liberal Method of aggression is to attack by declaring self-defense. So the ref needed to declare the kid an aggressor. So he choose a PC accusation that he wouldn’t have to explain.
Better not throw any Hail Marys with this ref around
I also notice the reporter is careful not to identify in any way the referee - gender, age, race, profession, sexual orientation, etc..
That usually means they’re also hiding or protecting someone or something else.
Did you even see the video? I’m guessing not. Calling the penalty was PRE-PLANNED. The ref was waiting for the kid to score...and how did the oh-so politically correct ref know he was praising God? Millions upon millions of kids have pointed with one finger to the sky for lots of reasons and now it’s taunting?
I saw it, they waited for it to happen, I know. but the ref’s are part of the game. Do you want to make religious symbolism part of the rules now?
Do you disagree he is there to win a football game NOT to draw penalties?
don’t question my Freeptitude, I was here when Bill Clinton was still shaming interns...
I bet if he had screamed ALLAH AKBAR no one would have made a fuss
Taunting. Really? We are a nation of wimps.
That’s a battle you fight off the field- not during a game.
And some of them are public saints and private sinners. I had a next door neighbor who prayed the loudest in church every week- I think she poisoned our dog.
“Trying to rationalize with these bastards will never work. Immediately attack and don’t stop attacking until the liberal is destroyed.”
This statement should be at the beginning and at the end of the book on how to defeat liberals.
“celebration’ penalty
From the article:
-—Turo told the media he doesn’t plan to change is in-game celebrations, and fully plans to praise God again the next time he crosses the goal line.
“Without a doubt, I will raise my finger,” he said.-—
I would raise my finger too, but not the same one, but then again, I don’t have the class of this young man.
Next time, he should make sure he’s near a ref, then point to the sky and say, “Hey, look at the plane.”
“I would raise my finger too, but not the same one, but then again, I don’t have the class of this young man.”
Since you admit it, I’ll admit it as well.
I don’t have the class this player has nor would I exercise the same self control as he apparently did.
I would very probably do the same as you, PDGearhead.
Our local high school cheerleaders joined the other team’s cheerleaders before a game recently and prayed together. Please don’t tell the powers that control us.
“celebration’ penalty
Wow celebration and joy are not allowed?!?!
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