Taunting

[RavenMad31]

I did an 11 hour shift at work today, looking forward to 15 tomorrow. All I wanted to do was to get home and catch some Thursday night football. I get home, settle in and one of the first plays I get to see is Carlos Hyde trucking some guy for a first down. He gets up, flexes and BAM! 15 yards for taunting. I turned it to the baseball game where my only rooting interest is for the Indians to embarrass the Red Sox. The NFL is getting so damn ridiculous with this and it seems to be getting worse every week. I have never in my life turned off a game like that. My patience with the NFL is starting to wear thin.

[bwgood77]

That is a little ridiculous. I think you can overdo it, and I didn't see it, but they should be able to have a little bit of fun. Though I will say I prefer the humble guys like when Fitzgerald had a great TD he just immediately flipped the ball to the ref about a step into the end zone.

[Otis Driftwood]

If he had stood up, stood over the guy and flexed... that's taunting. What Hyde did last night wasn't taunting.

No Fun League...

[DirtybirdGA]

As for the bow and arrow, I thought I saw someone other than Norman do it, and I don't think there was a flag, but I just saw it on a a replay going to break, I think.

[RavenMad31]

That is a little ridiculous. I think you can overdo it, and I didn't see it, but they should be able to have a little bit of fun. Though I will say I prefer the humble guys like when Fitzgerald had a great TD he just immediately flipped the ball to the ref about a step into the end zone.

I think you can overdo it by delaying the progress of the game and there is a penalty for that. It's a five yard slap on the wrist. If it isn't causing a delay of game and they are keeping their clothes on, there isn't much they could do that would bother me and I'd more than likely find it entertaining.

[bleu]

I absolutely hate it. I think that a few players like Vontaze Burfict and OBJ overdid it at times last year, and the NFL must have sent down a memo to the refs to really crack down on it. I get what they are going for, and no, we shouldn't have players standing over each other and causing unnecessary problems, but they're certainly not doing it the right way.

[bondom34]

I used to dislike them more in the TO days. I think there were times he went too far but man these fines now are weak. Its entertainment.

[Dirk]

It's terrible.

The more heated games get... the more entertaining they become.

Let players have emotions.....................

With that said, in Hyde's case, that was a bit ridiculous. It was 'delayed' and as soon as he did it, I knew it would be a 15 yd penalty. With how rules are, you just can't risk penalties during drives... and that one changed the game.

You can't even celebrate with teammates if it's "choreographed". You can't go to the ground celebrating... you can't use the ball to celebrate...

It's not only that though, the refereeing is so inconsistent. The 49ers against the Cowboys were up, the game dramatically changed when the Cowboys were gift wrapped a 1st down because a 49er pushed Prescott when he was still up and it wasn't easy to hear the whistle. It was egregious, but the ref threw the flag and dramatically changed the game.

It's way over the top... but what can you do? The NFL is used as the 'moral compass' of society, so political correctness dictates that they can't give a bad example.

[bleu]

The NFL is more concerned about celebration penalties and taunting than it is with cases of domestic violence. Goodell needs to go.

[studcrackers]

it's a joke and it gets worse every year, i really dont give a damn hat players do. frankly i think what Joe Horn or Randy Moss or TO did back in the day was hilarious.

it's even worse in college. georgia lost on that hail mary last week because of some horsesh*t celebration penalty when georgia got a celebration penalty because the bulldog players were going apesh*t when they scored on a 40 yard td with 19 seconds left.

let these f*ckin people celebrate doing their jobs well

[magnumt]

I did an 11 hour shift at work today, looking forward to 15 tomorrow. All I wanted to do was to get home and catch some Thursday night football. I get home, settle in and one of the first plays I get to see is Carlos Hyde trucking some guy for a first down. He gets up, flexes and BAM! 15 yards for taunting. I turned it to the baseball game where my only rooting interest is for the Indians to embarrass the Red Sox. The NFL is getting so damn ridiculous with this and it seems to be getting worse every week. I have never in my life turned off a game like that. My patience with the NFL is starting to wear thin.

News came out this week that NFL ratings are down for the first time in who knows when. Something like 10%+, or so. Great job Goodell!

--Mags

[Otis Driftwood]

I did an 11 hour shift at work today, looking forward to 15 tomorrow. All I wanted to do was to get home and catch some Thursday night football. I get home, settle in and one of the first plays I get to see is Carlos Hyde trucking some guy for a first down. He gets up, flexes and BAM! 15 yards for taunting. I turned it to the baseball game where my only rooting interest is for the Indians to embarrass the Red Sox. The NFL is getting so damn ridiculous with this and it seems to be getting worse every week. I have never in my life turned off a game like that. My patience with the NFL is starting to wear thin.

News came out this week that NFL ratings are down for the first time in who knows when. Something like 10%+, or so. Great job Goodell!

--Mags

Nothing that streaming won't solve...

[RavenMad31]

I did an 11 hour shift at work today, looking forward to 15 tomorrow. All I wanted to do was to get home and catch some Thursday night football. I get home, settle in and one of the first plays I get to see is Carlos Hyde trucking some guy for a first down. He gets up, flexes and BAM! 15 yards for taunting. I turned it to the baseball game where my only rooting interest is for the Indians to embarrass the Red Sox. The NFL is getting so damn ridiculous with this and it seems to be getting worse every week. I have never in my life turned off a game like that. My patience with the NFL is starting to wear thin.

News came out this week that NFL ratings are down for the first time in who knows when. Something like 10%+, or so. Great job Goodell!

So they are blaming a presidential election between two of the least popular candidates in at least my lifetime? Yeah, okay.
Granted, a couple of the prime time games I've caught have been duds, such as LA-SF and Pitt-KC, but that can't explain a ~10% drop.
Could it be that petty attempts at player discipline and the inconsistent way it is enforced/enacted aren't very popular with viewers? Could it be that instead of fixing the definition of a catch to clarify and simplify it, they wasted the time and energy to fix the extra point? Do you remember anyone ever complaining that watching football would be great if it weren't for the way they went about the extra point? Or, could it be that when players can't have fun playing the game, it doesn't make it very fun for us to watch the game?
God, Roger Goodell is such an ass.