One can get mighty cocky at the top.
The NFL is once again making it more and more difficult for fans to support them as they continue their ways of ticking us off. Penalties for the n-word? I am sure the Native Americans are thrilled that their racist slur remains attached to a Washington D.C. franchise. Potentially eliminating the extra point kick? Expanding playoffs? Team in London? More non-Sunday football on the way? And this is already in addition to all the ridiculous things you can’t do when tackling a quarterback or any offensive player for that matter. The 2000 Ravens would have died instantly in this current NFL.
The NFL has been trying to avoid their lawsuits and earn back some of their money by watering down the contact aspect of this contact sport and then attempting to make the NFL season beefier without touching the regular season. Roger Goddell and friends are altering and constantly making little changes to the beloved game at a very alarming rate, and we can only fear what might go down next.
Wait, no more goal post dunks?
Why?
What other celebrations are we going to ban while continuing to support the just-as-time-consuming Lambeau Leap? And I am not against the Leap, but what I am saying is that we need to allow these football players to breathe. Let them dance a little. Let them taunt a little. Let them show some sort of emotion. The career of an NFL player is far, far, far shorter than that of a hockey, baseball, or basketball player---let them cherish the few moments that they can reach the end zone.
Rumor has it the ban happened because of the delay of game when one of the players altered the positioning of the goal post after “dunking” it. What is the problem with just applying a penalty if he delays the game after the dunk? What is the problem with just letting them dunk and not hang around too long? Seriously, just let them dunk.
We already removed the excessive celebrations (even though soccer thrives incessantly on these and never really suffer on ratings), removed the props, removed the taunts, removed most of the dances, and pretty much eliminated nearly every aspect of emotion once those hard-earned six points are scored. But now we are hitting a new low with the elimination of the goal post dunk, a nice harmless celebration that doesn’t offend anybody. Next thing you know, we will start penalizing those that unnecessarily throw their bodies into the end zone too.
The NFL wants the players to become emotionless robots that churn out a football game without issue for us to watch and analyze and bicker over Fantasy stats, nothing more, nothing less. The NFL wants to remove the flavor from the players, reduce the personality to the bare minimum. Collect the money, move on, and churn out new players from the Draft after the old players can’t take the action anymore. Can you honestly name 5 players for the Kansas City Chiefs off the top of your head? Can you name even 3 players on the Jacksonville Jaguars roster? You can’t because the league doesn’t want anyone to stand out in the least bit.
The NFL wants to be a moneymaking monotone machine devoid of any emotion. If you don’t believe, check out all the rule changes in the last 5 years. They only want the quarterbacks to stand out. Even though it is hands-down the most successful of the sports franchises, they are slowly killing away at the quality of their product, and who knows what might happen if they continue this path.
Seriously guys, stop it, you are ruining football little by little.
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