The NFL encourages that, with the allowing of choreographed celebrations (stupid).
Favre’s last throw as a Packer was an interception that cost the game,.
Come to think of it, that was also true with the jets and the Vikes, Hmmm.
Rodgers’ last throw was an interception that cost the game.
He said, concerning Love as QB, that he wanted to continue to play as long as there was a chance of winning. Does that mean we can finally get rid of him for good? Packers have one SB under him (yes, it was a great one!) Should have at least three.
Thank you for your input. have a cookie, and let the adults talk. That’s a good boy!
Jarran Reed was drafted by Seattle and I watched him since he was a rookie, he played a few years for the Hawks. He was never spectacular but was very serviceable as a pass rusher and I always liked him. This was a bad move on his part and shameful. That could have seriously hurt Swift.
As for Quay Walker, the only defense I can offer (and it’s a tepid one) is that he’s extremely young. He’s a 22-year-old rookie and has some growing up to do. And it does happen. There are players with behavioral issues who grow up and become decent. Geno Smith is one of those people.
But what Walker did was definitely inexcusable. Especially to a trainer trying to see to an injured player. I’d ask Walker how he would feel if he was seriously hurt, and needed immediate medical attention to avoid losing a limb or dying, and some hothead on the other team interfered with the guy by pushing him over and intimidating him.
I so agree with this. You guys are paid really good money to play this game. You are supposed to be the best at it, so if your job is to make a first down, or a touchdown, and you actually do one of those, there should be no celebration, thats your effin job. If you are on defense and make a tackle, way to go, but that is what you are supposed to do. As Lombardi said, act like you’ve been there before.
You seem to completely ignore the players who are “best at” stopping them from doing those things.
This is football, not bowling. It’s a sport where you’re in direct competition with someone actively stopping you.
Note that players on defense who get a sack, make a great stop, get an interception, they celebrate the same. Because it’s really difficult and it’s not a routine thing.
If they weren’t accomplishing exceptional feats, this wouldn’t be a spectator sport. This is a form of entertainment.
Next you’ll say there shouldn’t be Academy Awards because every actor, director, and so on are just doing their job.
This has nothing to do with showboating. This is just out-of-control aggression. Aggression can be a virtue, for a football player, but only if it’s controlled. Uncontrolled, the player is more of a liability than an asset. And if Walker can’t control his aggression, then he needs to find a line of work where he can stay calm.
And there are at least three Packers involved in this? One who hit the guy so hard he needed the medic, one who menaced the medic, and one who actually attacked the medic? That sounds to me like the whole Packers organization has some serious problems that need fixing.
I’m not forgetting it at all, and I still believe there is way too much showboating. There are about 16 games per week, and in each game probably 4 or 5 sacks per game. Touchdowns, 4 or 5 per game. Same with field goals. So it is not an unheard of occurrence.
As for the academy awards, it’s a once a year thing. So if the NFL wants to have end zone, and sack dances at the end of the year, I’m all for it.
Yet they don’t celebrate for all of them. Not even most of them. They’re somewhat rare these days. I didn’t see many big celebrations in the games I watched yesterday, nothing beyond your typical throwing your hands in the air and high-fiving sorts of celebrations.
But I’ll repeat… This is entertainment. They are selling a product to customers. Those customers want the celebrations. And the NFL found itself in a position where they had to relax rules prohibiting them because fans protested too much. They are a part of the game, and part of the draw to the game.
And I have to laugh at the suggestion that people don’t normally celebrate doing their jobs. Sure they do. All the time. They throw parties at the completion of a project, or even just getting together for drinks at the end of the day. I even sometimes give a little celebration at my work when I solve a particularly difficult problem. This seems like whining for the sake of whining.
Yeah, I’m not a football fan, but I do lots of other stuff, and every group I’m in tries to celebrate small victories.
I came to this thread because I wondered how a football player got pitted. And he certainly deserves it. But I wonder if he might be a casualty of the sport. Too many steroids, too many blows to the head? 22 is kinda young for football-injury-related brain damage to manifest (and it does often manifest as lack of impulse control, among other things) but he’s not too young to have androgen poisoning.
I don’t find them hilarious or entertaining in any way. But I also don’t like the music they play at the stadiums. I’m clearly not in the NFL’s target demographic.
Not necessarily. Chris Henry was a wide receiver for the Bengals from 2005-2009; he died at age 26 when he fell out of the back of a truck during a domestic dispute with his fiancee. He’d had numerous run-ins with the law, due to substance abuse issues as well as assaults, dating back to his rookie year (when he was 22), as well as issues with unsportsmanlike play while he was playing college ball at West Virginia.
After his death, an autopsy revealed that Henry was, indeed, already suffering from CTE, though it’s impossible to know the extent to which that was a factor in his legal and behavioral issues.
Well, the Steelers pretending to perform CPR after a sack was pretty offensive and tasteless, coming a week after Damar Hamlin had actual CPR performed on him.
Agreed. It’s one extreme to another with the NFL. At one point, you could barely show you were happy when you scored without fear of a flag. Now, they can do choreographed celebrations.
Athletes are young, enthusiastic, and work hard. They should be excited and happy when they make big plays, but not up to the point where it hurts the team. Earlier this year, I saw a player score what probably should have been the winning touchdown with under a minute left. In his exuberance, he took off his helmet while still on the field and drew a 15 yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty that was assessed on the kickoff. The result was that their opponent got very good field position and was able to tie the game with a field goal as time expired. They later won in overtime.
My feeling is, be happy, high five it, etc, but save the rip roaring celebration for when you’ve actually won the game.
That was the Panthers I believe. I watched it as it happened. Celebrating is fine but don’t be stupid about it.
I’ve also seen players taunt as they score, drawing a penalty, or even worse, showboating as they got to the end zone. Where they slow down or dance or something before going in. And then get blasted before crossing over, either being tackled short or even getting the ball knocked loose.
Celebrate after you succeed, and do it in the rules.
Oh, wow, I just checked and discovered that, had they won, the Panthers would have ended the season tied with Tampa Bay. TB did have a better conference record, though, so they still would have won the division.