The $60,000 touchdown celebration
by JasonB on Sep 16, 2009 5:19 PM EDT
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PrintRemember the little celebration led by Desean Jackson after Brent Celek caught a TD on Sunday? Well, Jackson and 5 other Eagles were fined 10k a piece by the NFL. Here's the $60,000 celebration.
The guy who got it worst here has to be Kevin Curtis, who barely participates... Jamaal Jackson, Kevin Curtis, Stacy Andrews and Alex Smith were also fined.
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Lmao
I love McNabb’s reaction: “THEY DIDN’T MEAN TO DO IT. HONEST!”
BS
I find those entertaining. Annoying when its the other team but otherwise entertaining. They should be able to celebrate that they scored a GD Touchdown. Its straight BS. Pisses me off just thinking about it!
In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard.
-Theodore Roosevelt
I actually think that if Jackson hadn’t done his falling down thing, they probably wouldn’t have flagged or fined them.
No
Fun
Leage
Let the beasting begin.
by TransplantedFan on Sep 16, 2009 10:34 PM EDT up reply actions
This is dumb
How is a little fun like that “detrimental” or what ever word they use to condone celebrations? I mean come on, show me one fan who agrees with fining players thousands for a celebration. and I mean, fining some of those guys who were barely part of it at all? i would be pissed if i was kevin curtis
Two thirds of the earth are covered by water, the other third is covered by Dawkins
BULLL
i wouldnt mind so much if they also find the two guys who clearly hit McNabb 2 yards deep in the end zone when he was already on the ground.
Kevin Curtis gets on his tippy toes and gets fined $10,000
But Braking a start QBs rib….. Nothing
Thats bull shit once again the comish does the wrong thing.
agreed
couldnt have said it better myself, whats hilarious is watched Godell on Jim Rome yesterday and he was talking about how the league is trying to look out for players safety but then declines to fine someone for a late hit in the endzone on a defenseless player kinda hypocritcal if you ask me
by Kleahy82486 on Sep 17, 2009 10:10 PM EDT up reply actions
The celebration rule is stupid
but its a rule. That being said, breaking said rule, is STUPID!
"I want to maintain my flexibility."
-Andy Reid
its going to get to a point where someone is going to get suspended
after x number of celebrations (maybe 2 or 3 a game) and this whole thing is going to explode
RIP JJ & HK
Let the future judge Michael Vick
RAWR!!!!!
jackson rolling on the ground in front of the ref and mcnabb’s reaction after the flag was hilarious
good music too it added a nice touch.
Fine them, fine, they broke the rule (even though it’s stupid), but fine the late hit, too (which is much more egregious and dangerous than any celebration).
No Fun League indeed.
If brady or peyton were hit late, Roger would fine the shit out them.
"Half this game is ninety percent mental."-Danny Ozark
so right..............
this is freakin bs, ur right, if it had been brady or peyton the uproar would be unimaginable throughout the media, plus ESPN would have probably dedicated a whole hour long show on the hit. But Mcnabb gets cheapshotted and no action is taken, i dont want to get racial but do u think it has something to do with the color of his skin? Of course it does and thats freakin sad.
by goldenbird09 on Sep 17, 2009 1:11 AM EDT up reply actions
why the hell
was that music chosen for that clip
"I think pro athletes should be forced to use steroids. I think we as fans deserve the greatest athletes science can create."- Daniel Tosh
If Football Had A Church , Brian Dawkins Would Be My Preacher. -NPK
yeah really
"I want to maintain my flexibility."
-Andy Reid
by BroadStBullies on Sep 16, 2009 7:56 PM EDT up reply actions
Just plain lame. That’s worth $60k and injuring a starting QB on a late hit isn’t even worth a flag? The number of ways this is stupid is baffling.
How is that detrimental to the game? Sure it was clearly planned, and given the rule worth a flag, but a fine? They didn’t hang around the end zone long, they didn’t jaw at or push any players on the opposing team, they didn’t interact with the fans -detrimental how?
The NFL needs a fan union as much as a player one – the number of ways we get shafted pisses me off. The NFL network? Local blackouts? State of the art stadiums (which is to say squeeze as much money out of a market as you can, regardless of fan experience, stadium atmosphere, tradition, etc.)? More commercial minutes per game every year? Rule changes based on offensive productivity and thus “excitement” for the highlight reels…long damned list.
I care less about end zone celebrations than I do about the rest of that shit.
by rockaintdeadyet on Sep 16, 2009 7:52 PM EDT reply actions
I kinda like the fines....
I won’t be popular here, but planned and over-dramatic celebrations would take over the game if it wasn’t for the fines. They are never extreme amounts (compared to what the players are making).
I see the entire thing as basically the league knowing they can’t stop them, but maybe just trying to contain them without eliminating them. Things are always special and fun, until they are overdone….
Fine the hell out of them!
Just hand the ball off the ref, and act like you’ve been there before.
Maybe if D-Jax can score more than 3 TDs in a season, this type of sh*t will get old.
Honest question
What was Jackson trying to convey with this artistic piece? When they got in the circle I was expecting maybe the “machine gun everyone to the ground” a la Any Given Sunday. Instead Jackson flops around like a fish pulled into a boat, and everyone has a giggle. Worth a flag? Yep. Worth a fine? Not really, although I like that someone pointed out that 5 grand to them is more like $5 to a working stiff. My bigger question is, why the statements of the No Fun League? Do these celebrations really add that much to your enjoyment of this game? Who among us watches a game and says the following: “oh, well that was a nice play that got us a deserved 7 points and OH MY GOD DID YOU SEE THAT!!! THEY PERFORMED A PREARRANGED CELEBRATION!!! NOW I’M OUT OF MY SEAT AND CHEERING!!!!” Are the celebrations what you look forward to on game day? I understand the whole release of emotions and all, but if anyone on my high school team pulled something like that my coach would make us run the next day ‘till we puked. It’s showboating that pulls attention to one player in what is the ultimate team sport. I think that watching this great game is not diminished when the player just spikes the ball, and I worry more about rule changes affecting the play of the game, not what happens when the clock is stopped.
Homer: Aw, twenty dollars! I wanted a peanut!
Homer's Brain: Twenty dollars can buy many peanuts!
Homer: Explain how!
Homer's Brain: Money can be exchanged for goods and services!
Homer: Woo-hoo!
by bigbluethruandthru on Sep 16, 2009 10:41 PM EDT reply actions
It’s not that touchdown celebrations are the best part of games. Obviously that’s not it. But they are fun for the fans and they’re fun for the players and they take 10 seconds out of a game which I frankly don’t want to end when I’m watching on Sunday afternoon anyway. I just don’t see why they are so heavily frowned upon by the league.
by Rumplestiltskin02 on Sep 16, 2009 10:48 PM EDT up reply actions
Your story about your HS coach pretty much sums up my feelings on this celebration issue. Let the coach deal with it. If the coach is upset with these celebrations let him fine players or punish them. The NFL unilaterally legislating it is pointless.
That's a fair point
I guess I just had teamwork drilled into me most of my life. I actually have alot less anger towards group celebrations like the one above then one guy trying to act like he scored the TD 1 v.11. I think a big part of my dislike was having to watch Irvin’s fairy dance and Neon Deion’s taunting and highstepping. Great players, but as a kid growing up I would have loved for someone to just smash into them and wipe the smugness off their faces.
Homer: Aw, twenty dollars! I wanted a peanut!
Homer's Brain: Twenty dollars can buy many peanuts!
Homer: Explain how!
Homer's Brain: Money can be exchanged for goods and services!
Homer: Woo-hoo!
by bigbluethruandthru on Sep 17, 2009 9:57 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm pretty sure...
they were imitating a grenade explosion on Desean.
Felix is better than Brian. You can call me FIBTB.
I have to agree with the critique
I am totally against badly choreographed performance art pieces. Terrible execution, bad timing and an inability to convey whatever message that was supposed to impart (we’re awesome – so I’m going to fall down like someone hit me with an anvil? I’m a narcoleptic and need a nap? We rock so we like to roll around on the endzone grass?) Even the whole grenade thing, if that, indeed was his artistic vision here…. not believable at all – he should have flung himself backwards before hitting the ground… but still I don’t get the message here. My teammate caught the ball and now he must kill me? Weak.
Nope nope nope. I give him a 1 on a scale of 10.
Now T.O. is a jackass and, yes, antics like his caused this rule – but his original pièce de résistance of standing on the Dallas Star: simple, clear and timeless: 10 points!
The fact that DeSean probably has an IQ of about 7 should be taken into account. He probably didn’t know it was a rule.
Wow, that was ignorant.
Astra Inclinant, Non Necessitant
by EagleGreeninMD on Sep 17, 2009 8:14 AM EDT up reply actions
I’m not really sure why anyone but DeSean was fined. Jamaal Jackson spiked the ball, but it looked like everyone but DJ was just kind of standing around watching.
(Maybe it was the fact that it looks like DeSean said something like “Hey watch this guys”, and they all listened to him?)
I wonder if I can bill Jeff Lurie and Peter Angelos for the years of therapy their teams are going to put me through.
Where does the fine money go?
When the NFL fines these players, what happens with that money? What organization is now $60k richer?
I think it goes into a general NFL charity fund. In fact, I believe I remember reading once that these fines are charitable writeoffs for players.
Tax law FTW
I’m not a tax law specialist… but wouldn’t these be a write-off for the NFL as a corporate entity? Who knows…
Alex Smith
I feel bad for him. I don’t know what his contract is, but it can’t be very high compared to some of the others. I think he’d miss the 5K more than most.
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