Stealing a page from Victor Cruz.
“As an example, one or two slam-dunks might be palatable, however as a steady a diet is just about as interesting as stuffing a shopping bag at the market.”
You mean the chest pounding displays after dunking isn’t exciting to you?! The best is when a near 7 footer dunks with no one within 20 feet of him, and still breaks out the primal screams and chest poundage. But at least they usually can’t spend too much time on the fruity celebration, the ball is going up court right after. In Soccer the crazy celebrations by players after scoring a goal is way too much for me, but at least it doesn’t happen 40 times a game.
The absolute worst is the NFL, they break out the fruity self-congratulatory gyrating displays after even mundane plays. The cool NFL players have no way to self police the jerkwads, the nature of the modern game doesn’t allow it.
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Stealing a page from Victor Cruz.
I've given up on the NFL too. But my response to the prancing is that the league should institute a new major award, "The Jolson," for the best impersonation of a minstrel show strut by an player. To really do it right, the award should be presented live on national tv, when they hand out the MVP award. The top contenders would reprise their routines, and the white guys would wear blackface and the black guys would wear whiteface, just to honor the spirit of the thing.
I used to wonder where all the strutting, chest pounding, and prancing came from. Then I became a parent, and had a three year old. Fortunately, my three year old outgrew such displays.