The last remaining acceptable touchdown celebration. I mean, goddamn. These guys aren't nine...

The last remaining acceptable touchdown celebration. I mean, goddamn. These guys aren't nine years old. The coaches aren't taking them for ice cream after the game.

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SECTION 2. Noncontact Fouls
Unsportsmanlike Acts
ARTICLE 1.
No player, substitute, coach or other person subject to the rules shall
use abusive, threatening or obscene language or gestures, or engage
in such acts that provoke ill will or are demeaning to an opponent, to
game officials or to the image of the game, including but not limited
to:
(h) Going into the stands to interact with spectators, or bowing at the
waist after a good play.

15 yard penalty on the karate kid.

by PizzaDelivery on Sep 15, 2008 8:39 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

repressed celebration

leads to sexual and narcotic experimentation. Damn you NCAA

I don't know, Mello Yello is pretty awful. What's the worst that could happen?

by psu on Sep 15, 2008 9:13 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I saw..

it in person… it wasn’t as bad as they made it out to be. I think he slapped his chest and pointed at the PSU fans in the upper deck. Joe still wasn’t too happy about the whole thing though if you read his presser.

by deihlba on Sep 15, 2008 10:00 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Silliness

Hey, at least he didn’t drop the ball on the 1 and begin dancing like a cowboy rodeo-circus clown in the endzone. that kind of stupidity can only come from a former Cal player.

The bottom line is that these rules are one of the cornerstones to NCAAF, without them we descend into this culture or idiocy we see in the NFL — where players are more focused on what endzone celebration they’ll be doing then actually getting the 6 points.

by millzners on Sep 16, 2008 10:29 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Good Point

" We need MORE cowbell !"

by BlueWhiteLife on Sep 16, 2008 10:41 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

But still

The world isn’t black and white, and these rules shouldn’t be either. If you give a little leeway players won’t turn into TO or Chad Johnson or whomever signing balls and taking popcorn or whatever after scoring a touchdown. They’re not thinking these celebrations out in advance. Hell if I scored a game winning (or tying) touchdown I’d probably want to chuck the ball as high as I could in celebration.

by PizzaDelivery on Sep 16, 2008 11:58 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

You know

We were already winning by like four touchdowns at that point, and Penn State had pretty clearly announced it’s intention pound Syracuse into the dust. In 25 years of watching Penn State football, I’ve never seen Penn State do anything close to the Norwood pass against such a totally undermanned and out classed opponent. But I digress;

It wasn’t an important score, and you could make a decent argument that pointing to all our fans at that point was a pretty clear indication that he poitning out how bad Syracuse was. It just wasn’t necessary.

It is at this point in games wear things start getting chippy. Syracuse gets insulted, they start taking shots, Penn State retaliates, then there are fights.

Bottom line, it was the right call, and a good time for a young kid to learn an important lesson.

"I honestly think the "Spread HD" is going to work pretty well, and we’ll be just fine this year". - 8-27-2008

by jesse. on Sep 16, 2008 12:27 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I agree, Jesse

Celebrate your big score back on the bench. As Paul Warfield used to say: “Act like you’ve been there before”.

RUTS, that bow was obviously completely choreographed and directed at the opponent. Throw in the fact that he removed his helmet, and I’ve got an easy ejection call.

'People are about as happy as they decide they want to be'

by Pete the Streak on Sep 16, 2008 7:25 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs