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You know, you just can't enjoy the NFL without all these celebrations. /sarcasm.

If they banned every TD celebration known to man the NFL would still be the most popular sport in America by far.

Yes, I'm calling you out... If you ever used the term "no fun league" you are a clueless boobonic moron who should probably stick to watching the "Real Housewives of Bumphukanywhere" and give up watching football. You just ain't man enough for it.:p

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I blame it on the members here that did not participate in the hot chick MOJO. I'm talkin to you OldMaid :)

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Originally Posted by Danno (Post 585558)

Im pretty sure the players coined the phrase "no fun league" and we hear current and former players use the phrase all the time. Personally I like TD celebrations. The Fun Bunch, the Ickey Shuffle, Chad Johnson, T.O. were all entertaining to me.

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I get it... some have to be take out of the game for safety and all but I can't see how some of them are allowed and some aren't...

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Originally Posted by Srgt. Hulka (Post 585483)

That's because Barry Sanders was just fun to watch, touchdown or no touchdown. Jimmy Graham is not that fun to watch run. It's fun to watch him catch a ball three feet over the defender's head, but running...meh.
I have to agree though, a good old fashion spike is good enough for me.

I totally disagree... once he has the ball and makes a turn I can't wait to see who he is going to try and run over...

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Originally Posted by teddybarexxx (Post 585642)

all you people that keeps talking about liability is full of crap! players have been lambeau leaping for decades and no one thought enough about the players liability or health! like one other person said in their post what if he leaps and gets hurt either leaping into the stands or jumping down? let me tell you the fail-cons goal post wasnt secured in the first place! how many times have j graham dunk the football after a td? how many goal posts were tilted? oh i thought so none, zilch, natta and any other word associated with the #0. this is ridiculous on sooo many levels and everyone is trying to find justification for this hidious rule.

Mr. Potty Mouth, for 23 years players didn't have to wear a helmet, for 40 years football helmets didn't have face masks, then one day someone realized that was not a good idea. Then 16 years after the face mask was implemented someone decided that allowing players to grab it (except for the ball carrier) was not such a good idea. Six Years later someone decided ball carriers should be protected also.

You may consider rethinking your logic and approach.

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I think the less the NFL uses the word "liability," the better for it.
Its like your girlfriend using the word meunstration. You know she does it.
You just dont need to think about it.

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Originally Posted by teddybarexxx (Post 585727)

player safety and player celebrating is a total different beast! like i said before if dunking a football is such a health risk to the nfl and the nfl players then stop players from leaping into the stands where you're more at risk to harm not only yourself but to the fans in the stands. so again this is not about you (the fan) nor the health and safety of the player this is about finding a way to undermind the players individuality! for years end zone celebration has caused controversy especially when the league became more and more african american dominated. hate to use the old race card but since you brought up history that's a fact. the league first started with the taunting rule that's where the t.o and chad johnson's of the league was penalized because the antics they did some felt were taunting so players dont do what i like to call the extreme celebration any more. now its more of a 5 sec dance or a football spike or a lambeau leap or the dunk. maybe this is one more thing to some how undermind the saints organization. idk but no one can explain to me how one incident i repeat one incident where j graham dunked the ball and tilted a goal post cause a rule change?? again why not investigate whether the fail-cons had the goal post secured in the first place because if your saw the dunk it wasnt like he shaquil oneal the darn thing. c'mon!

I agree the penalty on dunking is ridiculous compared to jumping in the stands. The NFL is inconsistent at best when it come to player safety and discipline, along with a slew of other issues and problems.

But I disagree with your argument that this is racially motivated per se. The NFL has consistently poo-pooed touchdown celebrations going back way further than T.O. and Ocho Cinco. A lot of modern celebrations date back to the "Fun Bunch" and so many others from late 70's and early 80's. They were mixed race groups celebrating TD's. The NFL killed them which led to the short surge in the USFL years ago.

Without race involved, the NFL has consistently poo poo'd post scoring celebrations for a long time. Personally, when I saw the Graham dunk in the Georgia Dome last year I asked myself "I can't believe they still let him and others do that."