12-14-2015, 03:42 PM
Seeing William Gay dance for what seemed like an eternity with teammates, get a penalty, and then proceed to dance with more people got me thinking about excessive celebrating in the NFL and wondering what others though about it.
Let me begin by stating that I am primarily of the mindset that if you don't want such things to happen you shouldn't give your opponents a chance to celebrate at all. Additionally, I find it a bit hypocritical when fans criticize players for celebrating when NFL fans tend to go ape, jump around, pelvic thrust the air, and do all manner of celebrating when their team gets a sack or TD despite the fact that we as fans didn't actually accomplish anything like said player did.
I also expect defensive players, or o-linemen etc. who rarely score to go overboard (Carson Palmer spiking the ball and ending up on the ground looking like he tore both ACL's after a rare rushing score was pretty embarrassing, for example). I also differentiate between celebrating and dancing. The Lambeau Leap, AJ Green kicking the ball into the stands, the dunk over the goalpost, the spike, doing some short little thing after getting a sack, and so on are different in my mind than busting into a choreographed dance routine. I don't mean to sound like I hate dancing (I'm not John Lithgow, or anything), but it is interesting that sitting through an NFL game involves a solid 10 minutes of dance routines and about as many dance numbers as a Macy's parade. Also, I'll admit I was a fan of the Ickey Shuffle (I was 7), but if he did it every time he had a good run, or if every player did it I can assume it would have gotten pretty old. The NFL probably wants to cut out the dance numbers so there is more time for commercials, anyways.
But on a related note, Antonio Brown is the only player I can think of off the top of my head who regularly goes out of his way to risk injury when he gets a clear shot into the endzone. Friends of mind who are Steelers fans would rather he didn't put himself at risk like that, but ehh, they know that's part of the mindset that makes him good. Perhaps if he joins Bill Gramatica in the celebration hall of shame he will scale it back, but the amount of praise and attention the ball-crusher move got makes me think he's going to have to up his game...maybe do a backflip and land on his head or something, before he is asked to scale it back.
Welp, that's my take. If this thread is a hit I will boogaloo like a madman.
Let me begin by stating that I am primarily of the mindset that if you don't want such things to happen you shouldn't give your opponents a chance to celebrate at all. Additionally, I find it a bit hypocritical when fans criticize players for celebrating when NFL fans tend to go ape, jump around, pelvic thrust the air, and do all manner of celebrating when their team gets a sack or TD despite the fact that we as fans didn't actually accomplish anything like said player did.
I also expect defensive players, or o-linemen etc. who rarely score to go overboard (Carson Palmer spiking the ball and ending up on the ground looking like he tore both ACL's after a rare rushing score was pretty embarrassing, for example). I also differentiate between celebrating and dancing. The Lambeau Leap, AJ Green kicking the ball into the stands, the dunk over the goalpost, the spike, doing some short little thing after getting a sack, and so on are different in my mind than busting into a choreographed dance routine. I don't mean to sound like I hate dancing (I'm not John Lithgow, or anything), but it is interesting that sitting through an NFL game involves a solid 10 minutes of dance routines and about as many dance numbers as a Macy's parade. Also, I'll admit I was a fan of the Ickey Shuffle (I was 7), but if he did it every time he had a good run, or if every player did it I can assume it would have gotten pretty old. The NFL probably wants to cut out the dance numbers so there is more time for commercials, anyways.
But on a related note, Antonio Brown is the only player I can think of off the top of my head who regularly goes out of his way to risk injury when he gets a clear shot into the endzone. Friends of mind who are Steelers fans would rather he didn't put himself at risk like that, but ehh, they know that's part of the mindset that makes him good. Perhaps if he joins Bill Gramatica in the celebration hall of shame he will scale it back, but the amount of praise and attention the ball-crusher move got makes me think he's going to have to up his game...maybe do a backflip and land on his head or something, before he is asked to scale it back.
Welp, that's my take. If this thread is a hit I will boogaloo like a madman.
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