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NFL Football Cracks Down on End Zone Stunts
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| 17 Dec 2003, 15:18 UTC
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Posted on 12/17/2003 9:44:43 AM PST by yonif
The National Football League is again cracking down on player celebrations in the end zone. The league fined New Orleans Saints receiver Joe Horn $30,000 on Tuesday for making a choreographed cell phone call in the end zone to celebrate a touchdown Sunday. Horn's agent, Ralph Vitolo, says the player will appeal. Teammate Michael Lewis was fined $5,000 for helping orchestrate the stunt. After catching the second of four touchdown passes in a victory over the New York Giants on Sunday, Horn was handed a phone by Lewis, who pulled it from under the padding used to protect the goal post. Horn was still wearing his helmet when he punched in numbers, put the phone to the earhole and spoke into it for a few seconds.
The Saints were penalized 15 yards for unsportsmanlike conduct for the stunt. After the game, Saints head coach Jim Haslett said the team would not punish Horn, but that he was disappointed in the receiver's "selfish" act.
In another game Sunday, Cincinnati Bengals receiver Chad Johnson retrieved a sign from behind a snowdrift and held it up after a 10-yard touchdown catch. Johnson's sign read: "Dear NFL: Please do not fine me again." But the NFL did on Tuesday in the amount of $10,000.
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To: StatesEnemy
The next violator should be fined 10 times that, and immediately be thrown out of that game.<p. For real. Can you say $30,000 = chump change?
To: Modernman
Ditto that.
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posted on
12/17/2003 10:06:50 AM PST
by
StoneColdGOP
(McClintock - In Your Heart, You Know He's Right)
To: LS
"Ghetto ball"?
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posted on
12/17/2003 10:08:30 AM PST
by
StoneColdGOP
(McClintock - In Your Heart, You Know He's Right)
To: yonif

"Mom! Guess what! I'm not going to the Super Bowl, but I am going to Disney World. Sorry you can't come with me, my fine was too high."
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posted on
12/17/2003 10:09:01 AM PST
by
chemicalman
(Rid the country of the vast liberal conspiracy)
To: No Blue States; Mr. Bird
The primadonna player is not a team player. It takes a team to get a football into the end zone.
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posted on
12/17/2003 10:09:35 AM PST
by
thinktwice
(America is truly blessed ... with George W. Bush as President..)
To: yonif
my coach used to say "when you get to the end zone, act like you've been there before." and we did. and we won without showing up other people like thugs.
To: Tired_of_the_Lies
"Celebrating" shouldn't be prohibited, but do they have to turn into assclown prop-comics with cell phones, posters, Sharpie-markers for autographs, etc.?
To: Tired_of_the_Lies
how does celebrating a touchdown in the end zone equal unsportsmanlike conduct? Yes, Ah kin juke and run, and Ah kin catch a ball, but now you see, Ah kin dance!
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posted on
12/17/2003 10:12:28 AM PST
by
RightWhale
(Close your tag lines)
To: blowfish
I agree that the NFL is filled with hypocrisy. Matt Millen should be fined for his remark to Johnnie Morton on Sunday. They fine coaches for complaining about the refs but do nothing to Matt Millen who calls an opposing player a "Fagot". They sell Michael Vick jerseys all over the place but don't want him doing an endzone dance. I thought the Joe Horn bit was out of line myself. I think any celebration that does not taunt in the players face or uses items not on the playing field IE Sharpie or Cell Phone is fine. Remember Billy White Shoes Johnson or Butch Johns and his California Quake dance. Those were funny and not demeaning or mean spirited to anyone.
To: OldFriend
They worry so much about the antics on the field while coddling the crimes they commit off the field. Well said. And Tagliabue goes out of his way to coerce ESPN to kill their show "Playmakers" because it hits a little too close to home.
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posted on
12/17/2003 10:13:07 AM PST
by
Modernman
(I am Evil Homer, I am Evil Homer....)
To: LS
I knew a guy who played college ball. His coach's famous remark was "When you get to the end zone, try to act like you've been there before."
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posted on
12/17/2003 10:13:10 AM PST
by
Poohbah
("Beware the fury of a patient man" -- John Dryden)
To: LS
A more recent player, Barry Sanders, used to just drop it as well. As the coaches say, act like you have been there before.
To: yonif
I was always partial to "The Ickey Shuffle" myself...
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posted on
12/17/2003 10:14:10 AM PST
by
ErnBatavia
(Some days you're the windshield; some days you're the bug)
To: yonif
Ban this type of endzone stunt too.
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posted on
12/17/2003 10:15:43 AM PST
by
Shermy
To: yonif
It would be much appreciated, by me for one, if we could see a serious game of any group sport without these jackass morons showing their butts and their level of maturity after a successful play or a good performance on a particular effort.
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posted on
12/17/2003 10:15:57 AM PST
by
VOYAGER
To: LS
"It's ridiculous, and it is "NBA-izing" the NFL."
Precisely! Thank God MLB has more class than this. I can't imagine a batter doing some sort of chicken strut around the base lines after hitting a home run.
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posted on
12/17/2003 10:16:12 AM PST
by
beelzepug
("It'll ooze a bit, 'eads do, ya know.")
To: yonif
This will be the new "Can you hear me?" commercial.
To: StoneColdGOP
Heheheh.
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posted on
12/17/2003 10:19:04 AM PST
by
LS
To: ErnBatavia
I was always partial to "The Ickey Shuffle" myself...
I always thought it looked like the bride's gay uncle trying to do "the hustle" at a wedding. Likewise the "dirty bird".
Woods actually messed up his knee, helping end his career, doing that dance.
-Eric
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posted on
12/17/2003 10:20:45 AM PST
by
E Rocc
To: blowfish
Sorry, it's junk. It's classless, another form of "look at me" and has nothing to do with the TEAM. "NBA-izing" the NFL, and I hope the NFL has better sense than to let this happen.
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posted on
12/17/2003 10:20:52 AM PST
by
LS
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