Outrage! What nerve the National Football League has to rob us of yet another super-awesome-fun-wicked football tradition! The NFL just won’t be the same without players having the freedom to dunk the ball over the goal posts following a touchdown.
Wait, yes it will.
I’ll admit that the NFL’s rulebook has grown obese. I’ll admit that the “No Fun League” has become overwrought with tedious penalties, because this is a league on a power trip — one which wants to control every facet of the product. It’s annoying, only because it’s excessive and unnecessary.
They didn’t need to outlaw goal post dunks, but why do we really care as much as we do? Are we really going to miss this?
Wouldn't it make more sense to just penalize the offender if a dunk hurts the cross bar.. instead of outlawing something fun?
— trey wingo (@wingoz) March 25, 2014
Wingo’s a good dude and a great TV host, but seriously? Seeing a guy slam a football over a metal bar after scoring is something you define as fun? I guess it might be somewhat fun for the celebrator himself, but I’d hope that he’s already had quite enough fun SCORING AN NFL TOUCHDOWN.
Too much real shit is happening in this world for me to care that NFL players are no longer able to use balls as props in order to showboat after scoring.
The touchdown itself should be as fun as it gets. Anything after that is just ego and gravy. Get over it. Put up six points and act like you’ve been there before. The NFL will never outlaw raising your hands in the air and pumping a fist. Try that on for size, just once. Let the scoring play itself be the physical highlight of your day, rather than the over-the-top reaction to said play.
The NFL is clamping down on touchdown celebrations, and I couldn’t care less. If you’re a true football fan, neither should you.
