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NFL Plans To Crack Down On Excessive Celebrations This Season
CBS Local Media ^ | August 7, 2013

Posted on 08/08/2013 12:26:26 PM PDT by US Navy Vet

WASHINGTON (CBSDC) — Beware the military salute!

The National Football League will reportedly be cracking down on excessive celebrations and taunting this upcoming season.

Pro Football Talk reports that that referees working training camps have been warning players about celebrating too much.

The taunting rule is nothing new in the NFL, but what some critics have dubbed the “No Fun League,” officials will now go a step further to enforce the rule.

(Excerpt) Read more at washington.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: broncos; nfl
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1 posted on 08/08/2013 12:26:26 PM PDT by US Navy Vet
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To: US Navy Vet

What’s next? Telling the fans to be quiet?


2 posted on 08/08/2013 12:28:31 PM PDT by Ghost of SVR4 (So many are so hopelessly dependent on the government that they will fight to protect it.)
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To: US Navy Vet

No Fun League? How about No Excitement League? How about 17 Minutes Of Play League?


3 posted on 08/08/2013 12:29:53 PM PDT by wastedyears (One nation, under wub. Saints Row IV)
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To: US Navy Vet
eenie meenie, miney, moe, catch a bruthah by the toe, if he hollars let me go, eenie meenie miney moe

engine engine number nine, comin' down Chicago line, if the train jumps off the track, out goes why, oh, you

May I take three steps forward?

1 .. 2 .. 3 .. RED LIGHT !

Red Rover Red Rover send Jimmy right over



Who won the game?

WE ALL DID !!!!!!!

4 posted on 08/08/2013 12:30:42 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: Ghost of SVR4
What’s next? Telling the fans to be quiet?

Who knows? Maybe they will require each team to deliberately fumble, and throw passes to the defense.

5 posted on 08/08/2013 12:36:14 PM PDT by Mark17 (Yesterday I couldn't spell it. Today I are one, a creepy a$$ cracker)
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To: US Navy Vet
Without the excessive celebrations and taunting how will we the fans know who are the classless jerks (e.g. Chad Johnson) and the true class acts (e.g. Barry Sanders)?
6 posted on 08/08/2013 12:36:41 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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Maybe they will require each team to deliberately fumble, and throw passes to the defense.

Each team will have a Mark Sanchez?

7 posted on 08/08/2013 12:37:46 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: US Navy Vet

Nothing to worry about as a Jet fan.


8 posted on 08/08/2013 12:39:06 PM PDT by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: US Navy Vet

Might save some embarrassment for the classless idiots. I mean, why don’t you act like a man who has been there before when you get into the end zone?


9 posted on 08/08/2013 12:40:32 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Ghost of SVR4
What’s next? Telling the fans to be quiet?

They already took their purses and backpacks away.

-PJ

10 posted on 08/08/2013 12:40:47 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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What’s next? Telling the fans to be quiet?

This past season I attended a Denver Bronco game in Denver. Peyton Manning was working his offensive magic on the field when a wave started around the stadium. Peyton raised his arms with an exasperated look and the wave stopped immediately. Every one of the 75,000 plus in attendance shut up ... you could hear a pin drop. Sort of the same effect when the home room teacher walks into the classroom. Now, Payton likes an exuberant crowd, just not when he's calling offensive signals.

11 posted on 08/08/2013 12:43:33 PM PDT by BluH2o
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To: US Navy Vet

When you get into the end zone, act like you’ve been there before. A little fist pump, toss the ball to the nearest official and jog back to the bench with a little wave to the crowd.


12 posted on 08/08/2013 12:44:42 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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It’s National Felons League.

Fix that problem, and the other problems will go away.


13 posted on 08/08/2013 12:44:48 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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No Fun League?

I think the rationale for this ban is that excessive celebrations hurt the feelings of the other team - and might goad them to retaliate in violent fashion. If so, it's stupid - these players work their asses off to get the ball across the goal line - let them celebrate and show us their human side. Let them show us that they truly love to succeed at this sport. Goodell needs to recuse his silver-spoon, white a$$ from making this decision and appoint some real football players to set the ground rules for celebrations.

14 posted on 08/08/2013 12:45:45 PM PDT by ghost of nixon
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why is that so difficult to understand? I hope they throw a flag on a player in the middle of a celebration on his way to the endzone and his team get a 15yd penalty from the original LOS..


15 posted on 08/08/2013 12:48:10 PM PDT by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: US Navy Vet

Gotta love when the morons dance in the endzone and are still 30 points behind.

Effing morons every one.


16 posted on 08/08/2013 12:48:42 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: US Navy Vet

Next, no score keeping...it hurts the little felon’s feelings.


17 posted on 08/08/2013 12:49:52 PM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: ArrogantBustard

Right you are! The excessive celebration comes out of the urban garbage culture, which is where the NFL thugs, freaks, and felons are mostly coming from.


18 posted on 08/08/2013 12:50:20 PM PDT by Jay Redhawk (Oh Crap!)
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To: US Navy Vet

I’ll be working on the escape pod.. they can have ‘their game’.


19 posted on 08/08/2013 12:53:19 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi --)
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Lol! Reminds me of the episode of Family Guy where Peter joins the New England Patriot and upon scoring his first touchdown breaks into a fully choreographed musical number complete with orchestra and dancers.
20 posted on 08/08/2013 12:53:23 PM PDT by apillar
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