Taunt away... this is college, if the students can taunt the other players and/or fans why can't the student-athletes. If its offensive, no, but if it is just in the heat of competition go ahead.
I do like the medical clearance "rule".
This is part of the commie plot to take over the world. You're laughing, but it's true. The pinkos are out to sissify America. Turn us into a bunch of pansies, and where better to do that than in the very fabric of our society: sports.
It's an insideous plot. Yeah, I know most of you will dismiss this as ridiculous, but I know how those scum operate. Very subtle.
Taunting? Stupid rules are ruining football, a sport with too many arbitrary silly rules now.
Years ago, the NSU demons were playing at Montana in the playoffs. It was clear the refs wanted the home team to win, based on the calls they made. In the final two minutes NSU trailed by 8 pts (28-20 or something like that) and had been having trouble dealing with the Montana defense in the 2nd half. Finally, a big play. And a Demon was gone, on a screen pass, I think it was, 70+ yards...out-running the slower DBs...as he got to about the 20 yd line he saw some NSU fans in the endzone and he pointed toward them...yes, just like Tracy Porter did...the flags flew. Then when the NSU coach protested the call, another flag flew...30 yards in unsportsmanlike penalties. Montana took both penalties on the try for 2...which now came from the 32 yd line! Needless to say, the try failed and the refs won by 2 pts.
That was NOT taunting. The NSU player was acknowledging the Demon fans who were cheering loudly, the TD to be, in a frickin' playoff game! I am a NSU graduate and root for the Demons in such situations. Not that I really care, one way or the other. But that incident has stuck with me. It was such a travesty. A rip-off! (yeah, the try for 2 may have failed anyway, Montana might have won the game anyway, but that ain't the point. Let the teams decide it, not the refs!)
This is stupid rule about to become stupider.
Wasn't there an incident in the UGA-LSU game this year?
The UGA-LSU penalties were ridiculous imo.
They might as well script what you ARE allowed to do.
1. Scoring players are allowed one (1) jumping chest bump with a teammate after a score. The scoring player must then proceed to the sidelines without smiling or making eye contact with an opposing player. Any other action is an infraction and will be penalized.
I saw a commercial for the first time this weekend touting integrity in sports...
It was a MBB game and the team was coming to a huddle to discuss an inbounds play. One of the players on the team taking to ball in told the coach that he had touched the ball before it went out of bounds. His teammates gave him a hard time, but the coach patted him on the back for being honest. The last shot showed the player going to the ref to let him know he had touched the ball.
What a stupid commercial.
I guess we should leave it to free enterprise. I haven't watched pro football for years because of the idiotic taunting, show boating and excessive celebrating. I hated that crap so badly I simply wouldn't watch the game at all. Now I'm completely weaned from the game. Yes, the NFL has done fine without me, but the fact is, they are doing it without me.
The same thing is starting to happen in college football. A defensive lineman can get pushed around for two quarters, and then get a sack in the third, and he gets up like he just won the Super Bowl, bodding that freaking helmet up and down. I simply hate that crap with a passion.
While I agree that there is a feminization of America that has manifested itself in sports, I don't think stopping assine behavior falls into that category.
Last edited by Soonerdawg; 02-15-2010 at 09:57 AM.
the sack celebrations are what get me the most. i have never seen unsportsmanlike conduct called after a sack, yet thre is a lot more taunting involved in most of those. why is it a player can dance around and make an ass of himself after a sack, but players can't celebrate as a team after a touchdown?
Should making the "first down" signal also be a penalty? Receivers do that frequently.