Wait what? Rodgers barely does anything on Twitter.
It’s impressive, because all this was said in a press conference where a reporter literally interrupted him to ask if he cares, but Rodgers is the dick in your mind. If that’s not a troll question from a reporter, I don’t know what to tell you.
This is getting really annoying now. I can’t watch a broadcast without this ridiculous video game look getting in the way. I find it horribly distracting.
I don’t get it - are people upset about having shallow depth of field on some shots? That’s not a “video game look”, it’s a staple of photography and cinematography. Including sports photography. Almost every photo of an individual (rather than wide angle like a whole stadium) in sports is going to look like that.
Yes, but it hadn’t ever been used in live sports video broadcasts prior to last year. It is new in the sports world. Photos are different than live broadcast video. That’s what is throwing some people off.
Any time there is a big change, someone isn’t going to like it.
If this was 2020 or earlier, I’d agree that it would be reasonable to assume that something beyond the pale was said, or the zebras were looking to keep a chippy game from getting out of hand. But in 2021, it’s a “point of emphasis”, which means it’s going to get called a lot, and the player won’t need to have done anything special or egregious to get it called.
I don’t need advice on how to not have taunting called on me. I don’t play in the NFL. I object to this rule being over-enforced. Fans enjoy getting to see players show a little human emotion when they make a great play. Fans really fucking hate seeing a great play essentially nulled out by a ticky-tack penalty - especially one that didn’t affect the play. It’s reminiscent of a few years back when they would actually take touchdowns away from players in college for celebrating.
Well, I guess we’re arguing now, since you’ve chosen to get all shirty about it.
Firstly, it’s quite obvious when I said “So maybe just don’t do it [taunting] at all?” that I was not referring to you, since the previous sentence was “Taunting is 100% in player control.” So you’re overreaction about not needing this advice belies either a lack of reading comprehension or a choice to be unnecessarily aggressive. Neither of which is a good look for you.
Secondly, your argument about human emotion presumes that there is no enjoyable/emotional way to celebrate great plays without taunting, which is manifestly nonsense. There are literally dozens of great plays celebrated boisterously during any given game, none of which involve taunting, which is basically schoolyard bullying by adults. There’s no place for taunting on an NFL field and fans who don’t want to see “ticky-tack” penalties should advise their players to, you know, just not taunt anyone. Celebrate like a fucking grown-up. It’s the easiest solution in the world.
Finally, I find it eminently humorous that you of all people are making this argument 
I’m arguing how terrible this policy is from a fan perspective, and you are replying with what a player can do to prevent receiving the penalty. It’s 100% out of my control, and telling me whose control it is within is not really responsive to my objection.
Trust me, the irony has not been lost on me.
I rebutted your “fan perspective” argument in my second point above. Since it was so well written and persuasive 
, I’ll say it again: There are literally dozens of great plays celebrated boisterously during any given game, none of which involve taunting. If you accept that as true, then the policy is not the problem.
I wouldn’t say you rebutted it so much as offered your perspective. Which is fine, and you’re entitled to thinking you’d enjoy the game more if these scenarios were penalized. But I’d say that in 2+ decades of watching and following football and discussing it with other fans at bars and parties and games, the number of fans who actively want the NFL (or NCAA) to enforce these types of nannyish rules is pretty close to zero. I’m pretty comfortable saying your perspective, while valid, is a minority one.
While I am perfectly happy to be counted as an outlier amongst the typical NFL fan, I actually think we both want the same thing: exciting football without stupid penalties. We just disagree about who is responsible for the stupid penalties in this case. I think it’s the players and you think it’s the officials/NFL rulesmakers.
Loving the username / post combo. Just to be clear, does the name mean you don’t taunt others, or you don’t want others to taunt you?
Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.
Count me for not on the players.
Remember those dumb TD celebration penalties? The NFL finally backed off on those when they figured out septuagenarian and octogenarian billionaire owners probably don’t have their finger on the pulse of the common NFL fan.
This is in the same vein. It’s called the “No Fun League” for a reason.
To clarify, I don’t really think this is on the officials. I think they’re calling it how they’ve been ordered to do so. I think this is entirely on the league, and I can’t really say it any better than @Great_Antibob.
That said, I don’t think that game was well-officiated. I just think most of the most egregious (officiating) errors happened to favor my team, so I’m less likely to whine about them. It seems like games are more often than not poorly officiated these days. I’m not sure if using part-time officials is part of the problem, or if constant replay and super slo-mo and the like has created unrealistic expectations for humans making these calls in realtime with potentially obstructed views.
Let’s not read too much meaning into usernames…
I suspect that it’s mostly the latter. The fan at home (and the analysts in the booth) now have access to much better views of a play than they used to have, and those views are often much better than what the on-field officials have.
I also think that some of the rules changes in recent years, particularly those around legal vs. illegal tackling techniques, are really difficult for even experienced officials to adjudicate in real time.
He bet against Aaron Rodgers, playing the Lions, in Green Bay. I don’t care how shitty the Packers looked Week 1, you don’t do that, ever. The only team Rodgers has kicked the shit out of more is the Bears (Rodgers is personally now 10-2 at home vs Detroit and 11-2 at home vs Chicago). Thought way too hard on that one I think. At least he’s only out $25.
Probably more appropriate for the yet-to-be-started Week 3 thread, but Bears rookie QB Justin Fields will make his first NFL start on Sunday, as Andy Dalton will be held out with a knee injury (which the Bears say has him on a week-to-week availability, and does not seem likely to put him on IR at this point).
And, Miami QB Tua Tagovailoa has broken ribs, and has been ruled out for Sunday; Jacoby Brissett will be starting for the Dolphins.
Who wants to bet that if Fields completely blows it we’ll see Dalton made a miraculous recovery?