Posted on 01/17/2011 11:15:18 AM PST by SkyPilot
Are you willing to pay the higher ticket prices incurred by hiring choreographers?
And, after being paid millions to play for the Jets, he had to ask the Jets for a $400,000.00 advance to help pay for child support. If this is the same guy?
Its a business that has more commercials than game. Its played by adults, most of whom are older than many of our front line troops.
Many of these ‘proessionals’ get paid millions of dollars to play their ‘game’. They have monstrous ego’s and act childish and frequently ‘disrespect’ the opposing team and their fans.
I don't care who is doing it, I don't care what team they represent. It's low class.
In this instance, Nantz was right. The celebration was a real snoozer! (Sorry - couldn’t resist)
Even after Gastineau, this was a stupid thing to do. You play to WIN, not to impress your fans with how “cool” you are.
I am surprised. I thought you would nominate Cromartie for President? If you like Scott, wouldn’t Cromartie be your kind of guy?
Love it!!
Each team should get to have a troupe of costumed midgets that runs along the opposing teams sideline, taunting them each time your team scores.
I guess...the mom and dad...didn’t get Michelle’s message about eating junk food.
I think our NFL show-offs are able to do their own choreography.
The Jets are just obnoxious.
Yup. Too bad they didn’t practice mic control more.. I understand how they talk up and talk down , trash ain’t the half of it..
When it affects the bottom line of the business, someone up the nfl food chain will try and rein it in.. You know the media won’t stop looking for loose lips tho..
Jim Nantz is a sports announcer and not a Patriot.
Perfectly accurate description of what happened -- for those of us familiar with the English language.
I guess he could have called them "hot dogs," "show boats" or "ass h****" (all perfectly accurate as well) but instead decided to "keep it classy."
IMO, Nance is one of the better sports broadcasters. Talented guy.
"When you finally score a touchdown, son, act like you have been there before."
Because it was taking too long. As celebrations got more and more elaborate and more and more frequent (for a while there every “big” play would get a celebration) they were adding pointless time to the game, interfering with the broadcast, and just generally making the whole thing boring and silly. So they clamped down, first by telling the refs to get the ball to the spot quickly thus ending the play clock “pause” that allowed players to get silly. Then came the unsportsmanlike conduct rule for TDs.
Save the celebration until the clock strikes zero, until then be like Jerry Rice, hand the ball to the ref and get ready for the next play.
I believe so.
Antonio Cromartie. What bothered me about his "trash talk" was not so much that it was "trash talk" - but it seemed very personal, and threatening.
You don't call another NFL player an "@$$hole" - no matter what. Especially if you father 9 illegitimate children by the time you are 25.
It just bothers me, that's all.
100% correct. It's a team sport and real champions keep their head in the game all the time until there is 0:00 on the clock.
Someone once said, the coolest thing you can do once you get in the end zone with the ball is to make it look like you've been there before many, many times. Toss it to the ref and walk off with a quick shrug.
That's what a lot of the comments on the site say.
“Going to the ground” is specifically outlawed in the NFL celebration rule. He laid on the ground, over the top or not it was in violation of a very explicit section of the book.
understood , there’s an article at espn about how the pats were dissatisfied with Jets’ antics after the game . maybe the NFL shouldn’t be “results oriented”
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