I think you guys are missing the point here. It isn't about getting rid of celebrations or even about selective celebrations. It's about stopping potential long stoppages of play. According to the article "knocked the goal post askew while dunking in Atlanta" has already happened and if you've ever been to a basketball game when the idiot hangs on to the rim and breaks the glass you would understand.
I don't like Goodell either but I've read most of the responses here and I wonder if anybody actually read the whole article.
Just saying.
Whether or not they lengthen the goalposts or not, it's still happened once and with players getting bigger and stronger all the time it will probably happen more in the future.Angry Ram thinking it's only their excuse:
The article said they are *considering* making the goalposts longer and therefore more top heavy. Which = glass shattering. Which hasn't happened yet. I try to understand the NFL's reasoning on most everything, but I just can't see reasoning over a 1 time occurrence and knee jerking to that.
Yes, but they would probably consider that using the ball as a "prop", lolz.
I don't get it...
I'd love to see the classic shuffle one time before I die.... (I'm 23 lol)
Whether or not they lengthen the goalposts or not, it's still happened once and with players getting bigger and stronger all the time it will probably happen more in the future.
That's only part of the issue here IMO. The posts seemed to be objecting to where the rule modification was coming from that the modification itself.
I'm old school about celebrations. When I first started watching football you just didn't make overt shows of celebrations. Frankly, I liked it that way. It seems to all border on "me" and taunting today. I see this rule change as a positive thing. Who wants to be at a game when it stopped because they have to try and fix the goalposts or align them again. In bad weather. That seems to lost in the dislike of Goodell.
Of course, there are a lot of good reasons to dislike him.
I had/have no difficulty with either of these until I just found out the possible consequences of doing it. I also liked emphatic dunks until I had to sit through my first backboard replacement (we didn't actually sit through it because we eventually left before they finished replacing it). Now that they have actually voted to increase the length of the goalposts it's even more imperative they get this right. Of course they could simply do a better job of constructing the whole apparatus but that's not something I'm knowledgeable about.Angry Ram getting to the details:
Now I'm talking about dunking. But run toward it and laying it up? What's wrong with that ala Tony Gonzalez?
I have a problem comparing the ease of and continued probability of tearing down backboards vs goalposts.I had/have no difficulty with either of these until I just found out the possible consequences of doing it. I also liked emphatic dunks until I had to sit through my first backboard replacement (we didn't actually sit through it because we eventually left before they finished replacing it). Now that they have actually voted to increase the length of the goalposts it's even more imperative they get this right. Of course they could simply do a better job of constructing the whole apparatus but that's not something I'm knowledgeable about.