He paid the price...</p> <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'></p> </p> Terrell Owens said Wednesday he was fined "a good chunk of money" — which he later defined as thousands of dollars — for a celebration that included him using the goal post and football to poke fun at the New England Patriots' spying scandal during Dallas' 37-20 victory over Miami this past Sunday. A league spokesman said the fine was $7,500. "It wasn't even the fact I used the goal post as a prop," Owens said. "They said I used the ball."</div> </p> </p> Source</p>
Ive never like "ME" players and thats what these celebrations are about, but fining TO means nothing....as weve been told, "Terrell has 25 million reasons" why this fine is meaningless
I think the opposite is true(and maybe its based on what McNabb mentioned, that there are less of them)....the Gramaticas took a lot of critisism for their displays and Shockey is always a target....
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (GMJigga)</div><div class='quotemain'> </p> haha when I first saw it I thought it was an allusion to "The TO show" he mentions from time to time. Didn't associate it with the patriots until I read it somewhere else! </p> </div></p> That is a fantastic edit- the end goes almost seamlessly into the beginning. </p> </p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (GMJigga)</div><div class='quotemain'>Black showboaters get more criticism than white showboaters! </div> </p> That's funny.</p> I don't think I can watch it for too long without getting vertigo.</p> </p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (TucsonClip)</div><div class='quotemain'>Honestly, I think that is one of the funniest TD celebrations of all time. I just burst out laughing when I saw that...</div></p> MetooThings always look funnier in .gif format though, although I just like his eyes while hes pretending to film, cracked me up.</p> </p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (DolfanDale)</div><div class='quotemain'></p> <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Swish)</div><div class='quotemain'>I agree with GMJigga. Excessive celebration is a penalty because it is taunting and it delays the game, not because it helps a team win a game. If the Bengals had danced and taunted after every single play yesterday and gotten away with it, would they have beaten the Browns? No. If they were pass interfering on every single play and got away with it, would they have beaten the Browns? Most likely, yes. Touchdown celebrations are penalized because it slows down the game and also taunts the other team. When guys started using props like the Joe Horn cell phone, that's when the league thought it was going too far and implemented the rule. I honestly wish the league wasn't so hard on people who do touchdown dances because I love watching it. Football is about entertainment and guys like Chad Johnson are exciting and fun to watch. The fact of the matter though is that dancing and celebrating doesn't give a team an unfair advantage over their opponent and to say that all penalties are cheating is just wrong.</div></p> The Bengals-Browns game is a bad example because the Bengals were playing catch up all afternoon. I think if you let one team taunt and don't let the other then that gives the other team a realadvantage. You'll either see the team getting taunted get riled up or break and football fans would lose either way. Games should be decided by skill and not because one team could take advantage of the other teams' emotion. Personally, I don't think Turd Orifice's celebration had a real affect on this game because the Cowboys clearly beat the Dolphins, but if it had been a close game that ended up being decided by an emotional personal foul, then I would be really upset. As for the celebrations themselves, they are really starting to feel contrived and idiotic at this point. I miss Billy "White Shoes" Johnson and his simple, but effective, knee wagging dance.</p> </p> </div></p> Billy "White Shoes"? His endzone moves were lame. If the game had been decided by an "emotional personal foul" (TO's dance) than the Dolphins would have been the softest football players in the league. A funny TD dance should affect no one (at least not negatively), walk it off.</p> </p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (huevonkiller)</div><div class='quotemain'></p> <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (DolfanDale)</div><div class='quotemain'></p> <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Swish)</div><div class='quotemain'>I agree with GMJigga. Excessive celebration is a penalty because it is taunting and it delays the game, not because it helps a team win a game. If the Bengals had danced and taunted after every single play yesterday and gotten away with it, would they have beaten the Browns? No. If they were pass interfering on every single play and got away with it, would they have beaten the Browns? Most likely, yes. Touchdown celebrations are penalized because it slows down the game and also taunts the other team. When guys started using props like the Joe Horn cell phone, that's when the league thought it was going too far and implemented the rule. I honestly wish the league wasn't so hard on people who do touchdown dances because I love watching it. Football is about entertainment and guys like Chad Johnson are exciting and fun to watch. The fact of the matter though is that dancing and celebrating doesn't give a team an unfair advantage over their opponent and to say that all penalties are cheating is just wrong.</div></p> The Bengals-Browns game is a bad example because the Bengals were playing catch up all afternoon. I think if you let one team taunt and don't let the other then that gives the other team a realadvantage. You'll either see the team getting taunted get riled up or break and football fans would lose either way. Games should be decided by skill and not because one team could take advantage of the other teams' emotion. Personally, I don't think Turd Orifice's celebration had a real affect on this game because the Cowboys clearly beat the Dolphins, but if it had been a close game that ended up being decided by an emotional personal foul, then I would be really upset. As for the celebrations themselves, they are really starting to feel contrived and idiotic at this point. I miss Billy "White Shoes" Johnson and his simple, but effective, knee wagging dance.</p> </p> </div></p> Billy "White Shoes"? His endzone moves were lame. If the game had been decided by an "emotional personal foul" (TO's dance) than the Dolphins would have been the softest football players in the league. A funny TD dance should affect no one (at least not negatively), walk it off.</p> </p> </div></p> You've never seen a defensive player react negatively to an touchdown celebration? If you haven't, then I got two words for ya. Brock Marion. When Marion was a Cowboy and Turd was a 49er, Marion shoved Turd off of the mid-field star. If eleborate endzone celebrations and taunting were legal, then Marion would have been the one penalized for shoving Turd. Would that be fair? Did anyone blame Marion for shoving Turd? I think that, in the heat of a football game, players sometimes react to taunting without thinking first. That's why I think taunting should be illegal. As stupid and contrived as Turd's celebration was in this game, I didn't think that it had the same taunting impact that dancing on the star had, but my point, which you totally missed, what that I would hate to see a really good game decided by a penalty because a player reacted to taunting.</p> </p>
Thats true, but you can see how spiking the ball on 'The Star' hold deeper, more traditional meaning than the simple stuff we're talking about in the endzone.</p>
[quote name='DolfanDale']</p> [quote name='huevonkiller']</p> [quote name='DolfanDale']</p> [quote name='Swish']I agree with GMJigga. Excessive celebration is a penalty because it is taunting and it delays the game, not because it helps a team win a game. If the Bengals had danced and taunted after every single play yesterday and gotten away with it, would they have beaten the Browns? No. If they were pass interfering on every single play and got away with it, would they have beaten the Browns? Most likely, yes. Touchdown celebrations are penalized because it slows down the game and also taunts the other team. When guys started using props like the Joe Horn cell phone, that's when the league thought it was going too far and implemented the rule. I honestly wish the league wasn't so hard on people who do touchdown dances because I love watching it. Football is about entertainment and guys like Chad Johnson are exciting and fun to watch. The fact of the matter though is that dancing and celebrating doesn't give a team an unfair advantage over their opponent and to say that all penalties are cheating is just wrong. [/QUOTE]</p> The Bengals-Browns game is a bad example because the Bengals were playing catch up all afternoon. I think if you let one team taunt and don't let the other then that gives the other team a realadvantage. You'll either see the team getting taunted get riled up or break and football fans would lose either way. Games should be decided by skill and not because one team could take advantage of the other teams' emotion. Personally, I don't think Turd Orifice's celebration had a real affect on this game because the Cowboys clearly beat the Dolphins, but if it had been a close game that ended up being decided by an emotional personal foul, then I would be really upset. As for the celebrations themselves, they are really starting to feel contrived and idiotic at this point. I miss Billy "White Shoes" Johnson and his simple, but effective, knee wagging dance.</p> </p> [/QUOTE]</p> Billy "White Shoes"? His endzone moves were lame. If the game had been decided by an "emotional personal foul" (TO's dance) than the Dolphins would have been the softest football players in the league. A funny TD dance should affect no one (at least not negatively), walk it off.</p> </p> [/QUOTE]</p> You've never seen a defensive player react negatively to an touchdown celebration? If you haven't, then I got two words for ya. Brock Marion. When Marion was a Cowboy and Turd was a 49er, Marion shoved Turd off of the mid-field star. If eleborate endzone celebrations and taunting were legal, then Marion would have been the one penalized for shoving Turd. Would that be fair? Did anyone blame Marion for shoving Turd? I think that, in the heat of a football game, players sometimes react to taunting without thinking first. That's why I think taunting should be illegal. As stupid and contrived as Turd's celebration was in this game, I didn't think that it had the same taunting impact that dancing on the star had, but my point, which you totally missed, what that I would hate to see a really good game decided by a penalty because a player reacted to taunting.</p> </p> [/QUOTE]</p> </p> That's not even on the same level. TO was trying to show up Dallas when he was a 49er (that was still a great celebration though), with this celebration he was just making fun of the Pats, lol, why would the Dolphins care about them? Let's focus on current events.</p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (huevonkiller)</div><div class='quotemain'></p> If the game had been decided by an "emotional personal foul" (TO's dance) than the Dolphins would have been the softest football players in the league. A funny TD dance should affect no one (at least not negatively), walk it off.</div></p> I am inclined to agree w/ HK, but, Saban did once question Z Thomas' manhood, so there may be something to the alleged softness of the phins. After all, Nick knows ethics. He learned them from Belichick? lol.</p> Seriously, I have following this topic for awhile and here's my 2 cents.</p> Penalties are assessed for knowingly breaking the rules, which could be construed, as cheating or trying to gain an unfair advantage via fraud or deceit like spying.</p> According to the list of synonyms provided by Real deal, penalties could be considered cheating.</p> Dale is right; the celebrations are poor sportsmanship. Every day, these knuckleheads @ WR & CB make the NFL more and more like the NBA. To which I say, knock it off.</p> Unlike WWE & TNA, 97% of the morons who are “professional” athletes just want a look at me moment. It makes me long for the days of Ickey Woods or (gag) the mile high salute.</p> The monologues and non-physical parts displays in wrestling are all part of the show and the whole thing should not be taken seriously. That being said, I’d rather watch Triple H mock Vince McMahon than watch some 3<sup>rd</sup> stringer rip off his helmet for making what should be a routine play on a kickoff. </p> I agree w/ o.i atlhawksfan. TO’s celebration IMO is nothing ocho cinco couldn’t have come up with….. in 8<sup>th</sup> grade.</p> <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">As for excessive celebration being psychological? No. It’s just egocentric which leads me back to TO; everything he does is to promote himself and that’s the bottom line.</div> </p>
