Steelers tell AB to stop with celebration penalties

We are not good enough to give up potential run backs ...We are missing some key players on ST'S and if we keep kicking longer than we should we are going to get 1 run back....The NFL should not have a problem with it, but they do so AB should not do it knowing it's going to hurt the Team...

 

First of all....I think it's a bunch of bs anyway about his celebrations. The refs should concentrate more on getting the calls right during the game then after a score. And second, decastro penalties have hurt this team more then all the celebrations of Brown. The reason why the league get away with this bull is because fans and players allow them to. First it was Deebo...then it was Ward...and now its Brown.We have become a weak fan base and this league has been watered down to almost no substance. Stand up and back your your team...your players. All throughout Brady's battles with Goodell....their fans never turn on him and he was in the wrong. There....my vent is over

 

good post
a nice view

 

Rules? Really?! The steelers always take the road. We do play the cards that we are dealt. If there was some consistency in the game then I wouldn't have a problem with " the rules". I've seen players that have celebrated the same way or worst the AB and never even generated a flag ..let alone a fine. Hand slapping your teammate is a penalty now...really? I believe in playing by the rules but being harassed is a whole different thing

 

Ben says he feels that Brown is unfairly targeted during higher profile games as opposed to less televised games. so there is that.

 

bottom line

just don't do it
hand the ball to the ref
and
obviously

get ready to

GO FOR TWO

 

yeah, until they change the rules, just hand it off. They may let you get away with it a few times, but they're going to pop you on it at the most inopportune time!

 

the most recent penalty was on Bell not Brown

 

If the refs. really want to make the games great they need to officiate better than opposed to being the deciding factor of the game.



Part of the issue now with refs. is that they can now dictate a game more than ever before. Yes, they were able to do this previously, but not to the degree they can now.

 

I don't know how NFL.com recorded it in their play-by-play, but the referee called it on "numbers 84 and 26."

 

Actually after looking at the video it was choreographed which is a unsportsman penalty, so I have changed my mind that it was bells fault, AB was guilty as well...

http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2016...brown-leveon-bell-steelers-colts-thanksgiving

 

I looked at the video and still Don't deem it worth of a flag. Maybe Brown should've tossed the ball to the ref before celebration?! Still ridiculous!!

 

I say they should just do it on the sideline. Problem solved. Willy Gay got stupid penalties like this too last year I believe it was. He got on the ground and crawled to Joey Porter for one of his picks and he got flagged on his next pick as well.

 

No. He laid down on the field and started belly crawling over to Joey Porter. I can't remember who was calling the game but they even talked about how stupid of a penalty it was for Gay to do that. Might have been Dan Fouts but I can't remember.

 

Yep...one of my best friends is the white hat for high school in my County.

Besides my son's play etc...he loved that he would just hand the ball off.

That said...I think it's a stupid call if it's not excessively long and arrogant so to speak.

I didn't think any of his were.

 

My son is 9 and really fell in love with the NFL this year. He was in the living room the other night showing me multiple new celebration moves/dances that he has been coming up with. I told him that the best one he hasn't even shown me yet. He said, what is it? I told him throw me the ball. He did, I walked back and gently handed it back to him. He looked at me like I was from a different planet.

I told him it's the best one ever. It's called, act like you been there before.

 

There was copious dancing in the end zone, and I think other players joined in. I was cracking up, but the refs weren't.

 

I'm really not fussed with the celebrations, I am a fully signed up member of the 'No Fun League' theory. What I have an issue with is twerking. YOU ARE A GROWN MAN!!! Twerking is for Beyonce and 9 year old girls who want to be Beyonce

 

I like AB's game as well as I have any Steeler superstar in the past 40 years, but
I wish he would tone down on the celebrations. He is too good of player to be acting
like that. Give the ball to the ref and get ready for the next play.

 

IMO the rule is stupid, but it's the rule and these guys need to knock it off.
I know what Brown and Bell did was against the rules, but really that shouldn't be a flag. I think the league takes a look at the rule in the offseason.

 

While these fruits are in the end zone tip-toeing thru the tulips, they should be required to put on ballet tu tu's. The cheerleaders could hand them out.