Monday, November 29, 2010
What's up, Holmes?
Super Bowl XLIII. Less than one minute remaining in the game. Ben Roethlisberger throws a 6 yard touchdown pass to Santonio Holmes to seal their 27-23 victory. Now, I don't know about you but if I just caught a super bowl winning touchdown I might be just a little bit excited. After the play had ended he threw the ball up in the air, LeBron James style....and was then fined 10,000 dollars. To my understanding the point of the celebration rule, and rules in general, are to keep the players safe. The league says that the rule is there because they don't want to cause a disagreement between players or get the other team riled up, which might cause a fight or get players injured, but what's the point of penalizing someone when they do it after the play is over. On top of that, they need to bring it outside the confines of the game and penalize the players wallet? That doesn't make a lick o' sense. The rule isn't consistent and has too many flaws for it to be beneficial to the game. If they're going to continue with it, the league needs to take a good look at the pros and cons and finer details of the rule.
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i agree with you Ian. let's celebrate
ReplyDeleteIn that situation i agree, it is perfectly fine to celebrate.
ReplyDelete$10,000? Given the guy's salary, will this have an impact? What does the league do with the money? Seems like there should be a better way to control the players than through these huge fines (which don't seem to work)
ReplyDeleteWell I think $10,000 is a lot for a penilization. I mean the players don't get paid millions at once. They probably get a monthly salary that probably adds up to those millions. It probably hurts their wallet. But yeah why can't a person celebrate his achievement.
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