(11-12-2021, 09:48 AM)Mikey Wrote:

(11-10-2021, 12:37 PM)Jag88 Wrote: This is a violent, contact sport. I guess they should quit being "hoodlums" and stop being so excited

I get excited when something I work hard toward is realized. I've never felt the urge to do a pelvic thrust in an all-hands meeting calling for a championship belt around my waist while screaming IN YO FACE at my coworkers.

You can high-five a teammate and head back to the huddle with the same level of excitement. I promise you beating that OT for another sack is gonna drown their spirits more than any other choreography you can imagine would.

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(11-10-2021, 02:11 PM)Jag88 Wrote: I just dont want to see refs using taunting penalties to decide games. This is football. Intimidation and trash talk is part of the fun of game.  They arent robots. This isn't baseball. That's part of the mind games that go on in an exciting extremely competitive sport.

Wanna know the easiest way to avoid taunting penalties deciding a game?  

Your first point isn't a valid comparison.  Of course you're not going to taunt and scream IN YO FACE at your own coworkers.  In that scenario, those are your teammates.  I would imagine if you were competing with another company for some piece of work, and it became contested and was up for grabs - I can see some people being excited to the point of doing some of those things - and add in the fact that football is a violent athletic game, that tends to make it more likely to want to celebrate.  While I never played at the NFL level (obviously), there certainly was trash talk and some celebrating/taunting in the sports that I did play.

This isn't to say that I'm in favor of taunting, I guess I'm actually kind of ambivalent about this whole topic. I probably land on letting them play, and have fun.  But I know there has to be a rule to keep some order and prevent things from getting out of hand.  The issue becomes when that rule isn't applied consistently or fairly by the officials.  The answer shouldn't be to just eliminate all celebrations so they aren't seen as taunting.

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