“In baseball, anyone who would DARE make the ‘sign of the Cross’ or ‘blow a kiss towards heaven’ would be suspended indefinitely.”
In baseball, anyone who would dare to make the choke sign while performing a fruity prancing dance down to first after drawing a walk would get creamed. Nobody wants 90+ anywhere much less their lips. That’s why they don’t do it.
NFL has no self policing from other players, so you get gyrating hulk posturing and chest thumping from 300lb+ behemoths after they happen to fall on a loose ball. NFL need some way for the players to self police the jerks, not rules suitable for 4 year olds.
Freegards
Please understand I was being very facetious and dripping with sarcasm.
We know Baseball has the idiotic brushback rule - which while may be necessary in most circumstances the umpires use it much like grade school punishes a kid for drawing a picture of a gun.
It is going to get worse now that they are attempting to avoid collisions at home plate...I can see ‘going after a slider’ if he is going after the catcher intentionally, much the same if a slider goes out of the base line and does a ‘barrel roll’ into the infielder covering the base.
In Bryce Harpers rookie year Cole Hamels not only hit him intentionally BUT admitted it.
On the HBP at bat, Harper stole home and the next at bat he attempted to bunt....Harper is a roll back to the P Rose days (Rose would probably be ‘banned’ today) and I had the feeling that when he attempted to bunt up the 1st base line that he wanted to run up Hamels’ back in the process.
THAT is payback, especially when his pitchers can’t retaliate.