No Dance for YOU!!! No Celebrations

[Durango53]

FBN NFL Meetings
By The Associated Press

02:13:03 AM (ET), Thursday, March 30, 2006
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Dance all you want after a touchdown, gentlemen. Just do it alone.

Spike the ball or, if you have the hops, dunk it over the crossbar.

Anything else - forget it.

Touchdown celebrations have gotten more and more original lately, from Chad Johnson's putting the football to Steve Smith changing a diaper to Terrell Owens using the ball as a waiter's tray. Those players will need to go back to work on new ideas within stricter parameters after NFL owners voted 29-3 Wednesday to limit such histrionics.

``I'm looking forward to seeing what Chad will come to celebrate with now,'' Indianapolis coach Tony Dungy said after the vote. ``He's pretty original and I'm sure he'll come up with something. It's a challenge to Chad in the offseason.''

The genesis of the rule change adopted as the NFL meetings wrapped up came from the players' union itself. Last month at the NFL combine, a group of players told competition committee chairmen Rich McKay, general manager of the Atlanta Falcons, and Jeff Fisher, coach of the Tennessee Titans, they believed the celebrations were getting too elaborate.

``The players wanted defined limits of celebrations,'' Dungy said. ``They really pushed for that.''

The owners obliged, with Dallas, Philadelphia and Tampa Bay voting no.


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What a joke.

[Royce]

Really. So stupid.

[a_ndrew3000]

I really only watch the NFL for the dancing.




They just lost one viewer.

[rockin500]

blame it on the players, not the owners. besides, some of the crap was becoming ridicilously overboard.

[Chisox73]

This is exactly why they call the NFL the No Fun League.:no:

[Durango53]

I agree with you Ray that you have to blame it on the players and that it is becoming overboard. The players should have taken care of the problem on the field.....

Also I blame the highlight shows and showing of the dances over, over and over. Dont show them and people quit and no problems.

[Royce]

The players are supposed to be entertainers, and they entertain us by doing what they do; don't make them stop. The NFL sucks.

[rockin500]

The players are supposed to be entertainers, and they entertain us by doing what they do; don't make them stop. The NFL sucks.
the players were the ones who requested it. the owners just complied.

[Royce]

The league stilll made them stop. The few TD scorers that have the most entertaining celebrations can't stop the league from making this rule.

[rockin500]

again, you are missing the point. this came about because a large group of players went to league officials to crack down on celebrations.

not to mention getting pressure from college and high school coaches/AD's.

[Royce]

I'm not missing any point. A small group of players, for example, Chad Johnson, Terrell Owens etc..., cannot stop the league from making this ruling based on the opinions of others.

I really doubt Chad Johnson went to league officials to ask them to cut down on TD dances.

[rockin500]

i give up. you choose not to see the point.

[Royce]

I see the point. You're saying most players wanted the rule established and also other people.. I'm saying, yes, I know that but players like Chad Johnson now lose their freedom to entertain the fans. In this case, I guess majority rules, and players like him will have to abide by the rules. I do not like the ruling, players should be allowed to do whatever they want in the endzone if it is entertaining.

If that's not your point, I guess I don't see it then.

[rockin500]

ok, i see what you are saying now. but isnt that the way things are most places? majority rules? the fact is some people like dances, but many more people dislike them.

[Royce]

I think most fans like them. Sure the DBs don't like getting showed up but they can dance all they want when they deflect passes. Majority doesn't always rule in all cases when a certain party has more power. The world would be better place if it did.

[a_ndrew3000]

I'm glad they got rid of it. :thumbsup:

"Act like you've been there"

[Durango53]

Sure the DBs don't like getting showed up
Then they should do something about it to stop them themselves

[00_Agent]

Well, the NFL is doing everything they can to get themselves back into the conversation of racism if you ask me. I'm surprised people haven't brought it up the way they did when the NBA came up with their dress code, but it should be around the corner.

Personally, I think the celebrations are getting overboard, but whoever said that if Sportscenter and shows like that didn't show them they wouldn't go on was spot on.

Besides that, it is just a sport. I know that the fact that they make a lot of money and a lot of people watch puts them in the limelight, but they are only playing football, it's not like we have Vladimir Putin pulling a sharpie out of his sock at UN meetings to sign treaties with. How seriously are we willing to take this? Before you know it, they aren't going to be able to do anything. They already have ridiculous uniform enforcement.

Anyway, to sum up - they are getting ridiculous, but at least they don't slow the game down to a grinding halt (ahem, instant replay), and if the networks and ESPN would only show the good ones, not everyone would be doing it. They don't really bother me so much that I would outlaw them. (Attica, attica, attica...)

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[slinger2424]

I look at it this way, I love to watch spots for it's entertainment value. I spend a ton to go to a game to be entertained. If I drop several hundred dollars to get some decent seats, paying the players salary and lining the owners pockets, shouldn't I be entertained?

Dances go way back, even the Icky Shuffle. I mean c'mon people, lets not lose site of where the NFL has come from. I don't think you should go over the line and attack the other team (example, degrading the Dallas star by Mr. Owens (his new team-I'll never understand) that was just disrepect)

So lets see how long this one lasts. I personally hope not long. We'll all see.

[Yankeesfan27]

Well, the NFL is doing everything they can to get themselves back into the conversation of racism if you ask me. I'm surprised people haven't brought it up the way they did when the NBA came up with their dress code, but it should be around the corner.

Personally, I think the celebrations are getting overboard, but whoever said that if Sportscenter and shows like that didn't show them they wouldn't go on was spot on.

Besides that, it is just a sport. I know that the fact that they make a lot of money and a lot of people watch puts them in the limelight, but they are only playing football, it's not like we have Vladimir Putin pulling a sharpie out of his sock at UN meetings to sign treaties with. How seriously are we willing to take this? Before you know it, they aren't going to be able to do anything. They already have ridiculous uniform enforcement.

Anyway, to sum up - they are getting ridiculous, but at least they don't slow the game down to a grinding halt (ahem, instant replay), and if the networks and ESPN would only show the good ones, not everyone would be doing it. They don't really bother me so much that I would outlaw them. (Attica, attica, attica...)

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Completely agree. I remember the day this happened. PTI talked about it. And the guy that was subbing for Tony. Sayed that it was "Old white men stopping young black men from having fun. And you know. As much as you'd hate to make it a racial issue, he's 100% right.

Chad Johnson is the most fun WR to watch. Because of his TD dances, etc. Plus the fact that he's the most underrated WR in the game. But thats an entirely different story. Steve Smith is also the same way.

And then theres Owens. But, I think we'll just let him be for now.

On terms of the DBs. Everytime they make a nice play. They to do a dance. Whats the damn difference? If somebody makes a game changing play whats the big f*cking deal? I just don't get it.

And like Durango said. If the DBs don't like getting showed up. Then f*cking do something about it. Don't go whinning like a damn baby.

[Royce]

They should be able to whine; Wideouts want pass interference when the DB breathes on them.

[00_Agent]

I will agree that the wideouts are a bunch of babies...especially in the last few years it seems like, they start crying if someone is even close to them, sometimes even when they make the catch they're complaining.

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[a_ndrew3000]

Racism? :confused:


Oh....I get it....The rule only applies to the black players.....right...

When I watch football, I also want to be entertained. I want to be entertained by FOOTBALL! If I wanted to watch football players dance, I'd watch "dancing with the stars".

[Royce]

How does race get involved in this...

[Dward00]

Because only black players dance in the end zone. White players are like: nah....this is retarded.

I think dancing in the end-zone is retarded too. I see no purpose to it, and no reason why anyone should be upset by this.

Yea there's been black ppl who don't act retarded in the end-zone.......like Barry Sanders......but tell me the last time you saw John Elway break-dance in the end-zone.

Now Deion Sanders could dance, but wtf is this stuff that Chad Johnson, and Terrell Owens is doing? It's like not cool at all............it really is border-line retarded. I mean when you see them do their stuff does it make you laugh? If it does.....it probably conjures up a truly homosexual laugh.

:hmm: