Has college football officially taken the fun out of the game with stupid penalties for celebrating?
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Is it just me, or has college football gone too far with the way they decide what’s a penalty and what isn’t? I thought college football was a game. I thought games where supposed to be fun. So why is it that players get penalized for celebrating in the endzone after scoring a touchdown?
Is it just me, or has college football gone too far with the way they decide what’s a penalty and what isn’t? I thought college football was a game. I thought games where supposed to be fun. So why is it that players get penalized for celebrating in the endzone after scoring a touchdown?
yes and so has the nfl. Especially the NFL. I miss the antics of Chad Johnson excuse me I mean Chad Ocho Cinco.
Have you watched the NoFunLeague lately?
I think it’s pretty ridiculous myself. Rules are rules, but this is the sort of thing that could affect the outcome of the game. So far, not so good in that respect. Plus, one of the things I love about college football is the emotion. So much for that.
No they havn’t gone to far…
DUDE! You don’t know how bad it pisses me off.
DD
Like, We all know Chad Johnson likes to celebrate after a touchdown, And it was amusing but now it’s all blah and borring :/
except when he wore that jacket that said “future hall of famer”
No, and here is why.
Disciplined, non-gangbanger players listen to their coach do not celebrate until they get in the locker room.
As soon as the Washington player scored, he should have handed the football to the nearest official. Throwing the ball in the air behind the back, he might as well of spiked it, same penalty. TV announcer Barry Tompkins whined about this call, the referees only were doing their job.
What the Washington players did was an unsportsmanlike act. The players CHOOSE to break the rules, the referees do their job and make the call.
Tyrone Willingham has only himself to blame. If he instructed and drilled his players as how to act on the field, this would not have happened.
The extra point was blocked anyway, wouldn’t have mattered if the placement was on the 10 or on the 25 yard line.
College football is a game, it is fun. The old line is act like you have been there before. Shake the hand of your teammate and move on.
I know the thumbs down are coming, but the players CHOOSE to break the rules, referees do their job by making the call.
did u see the Washington vs. BYU game? oh jesus. when jack locker ran in for a TD he just threw the ball over his shoulder and that was called “unsportsmanlike conduct” BULLCRAP and it cost them the game too.
BYU was overrated.
I don’t know about the NCAA, but the Pac-10 officials sure did by screwing the huskies. BYU has no business being in the top 15 and Washington should’ve won that game.
It sucks for Washington. As much as people complain about it after a loss, a referee’s call very very rarely influences the outcome of the game. This did. And for such a stupid reason. Was it celebration? Yes, in the most basic sense of the word. The guy flipped the ball over his shoulder. He didn’t spike it, he didn’t spin it, he didn’t use it as a prop or anything of the sort. Then he and his teammates embraced one another because they had created a spectacular play. There was nothing taunting or premeditated about what they did, which should be the basis of a call like that.
The argument has already been made that since the kick was blocked, the call really didn’t matter. But moving that far back changes a lot of things. The kick has to be lower in order to travel farther, and should the coach want to try a 2-point conversion instead of a PAT, the penalty completely takes that out of the equation.
At the end of the day, you can’t say BYU doesn’t deserve to be No. 15 because every game has shit calls. What’s important is that at the end of the day, Washington still had the chance to tie the game and BYU came up with a good block to seal the win.
Personally I’m glad that this type of tomfoolery is being addressed by the NCAA and NFL. Football is a team sport, the running back ran in the ball (or the receiver caught the ball, depending on the situation), but with a weak offensive line, that would not have been able to happen. The only acceptable form of celebration is to high-five your teammates after handing the ball to the referee, but even then, it takes away a little from the good old fashioned sportsmanship. They didn’t need to taunt the other team during the game back in the leather helmet era (which is what showboating essentially does), so why would they need to now? Easy, they don’t.