Monday, November 8, 2010
Mad Celebrations
Ello Guvna' celebrations are a part of the game and always have been, throughout the years more measures have been taken in order to cleanse the game of such acts. For example, you can not leave your feet or use any sort of prop while gettin' jiggy wit it, or it is a 15 yard penalty. As you can probably infer, the players don't like this rule, but is it really such a bad idea? The excessive celebrations don't really add anything to the game and might even distract the players and fans from the actual playing of the game of football. Wouldn't we rather have the players focusing on catching a touchdown pass or trucking a safety into a permanent state of vegetation, than hiding a pen in the endzone or corrupting the minds of young children with promiscuous dance moves. The game has started to put too much focus on the celebrations and these rules help to bring it back to the way it was before the big egos of the NFL.
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Interesting info man. But it will definitely be hard to get rid of this.
ReplyDeletei agree with ayan
ReplyDeleteMy understanding is that this rule was put in place because pros were serving as poor role models for kids with these celebrations, acting as obnoxious show-offs rather than modeling good sportsmanship. I wonder: are there penalties in HS sports for this type of behavior?
ReplyDeleteyeah i agree, i dont like that they encourage focusing on a players own personal accomplishments and it should be more about helping to get done what needs to get done in order for your team to win.
ReplyDeleteMassachusetts follows the NCAA rulebook, which deals out a 15 yard penalty for anything determined to be "Any delayed, excessive, prolonged or choreographed act by which a player (or players) attempts to focus attention upon himself (or themselves)"
i think this is a good rule as it pushes the players to not focus on themselves but to look out for the team.
I understand what you mean. But celebrations are also really entertaining. They can be creative in this regard, and there isn't much creativity while running for a ball.
ReplyDeletepeople should be focusing on the game and the team, not what the player does after he scores
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