Celebrations?

Serious questions:

Why was AJ Green allowed to kick a ball into the stands after a TD without being flagged?

Why were Burfict and four bengals allowed to run all the way down field and into the tunnel after an INT without being flagged?

Why was William Gay flagged for dancing after a TD?

Are there actual rule book reasons why their celebrations are ok and ours are not?

 

They simply missed the call on AJ last time around. If multiple players get in on celebrations it can be ruled "excessive". Regardless we need to take a page from Heath's playbook and Walter Payton's as well and "act like we've been there". At least wait til you get on the sidelines to do that stuff. This is not the time to draw stupid penalties.

 

I agree. The Green punt was an oversight, but it was a little hard to miss the Burfict Thug Squad chugging down the field and into the tunnel. Maybe the league has some elaborate definition of what precisely constitutes a celebration - though apparently Bengal players delivering or taking the football out of the field appears not to qualify. Either way, all we can do is take care of our own business. I was furious when Gay did that stupid dance AGAIN, and got tagged AGAIN.

 

I mean the Burfict convoy should have at least been delay of game right?

 

Our celebrations have got to stop, it is really classless.

 

Show no emotion, don't get excited when you make a big play? Might as well get robots to play then.

I agree with the overly excessive stuff that draws penalties, but these guys have good cause to be excited when they do well.

 

Once again...Gay wasn't the one flagged!

Dupree came up behind him and did the dance for about a second and the ref threw the flag! I don't see the Bengals fans complaining about a nonsense call that cost them 15 yards at a key game changing moment that didn't actually count anyway......

 

why did we get flagged for celebration in the endzone, when it was rulled not a touch down anyhow. Then we should have the penalty removed as well.

 

GODdell needs to just change the rules back to the way they were.. The only prohibitions should be props other than the football, taunting, and excessive. 15 yards because two guys are dancing is just silly.

 

I have been asking this for two days! How does one get an excessive celebration penalty on a touchdown that didn't happen??

 

Dude, he is right. No one is saying act like a robot. But all this GROUP Nonsense...which IS Illegal and in the rule book is nonsense. What Antonio does sometimes, and our defensive players do after a big play is just childish.

 

Yeah that touchdown didn't count, but the penalty for celebrating does.we don't get to take back the penalty for celebrating just because the touchdown didn't stand doesn't work that way.

 

I agree with change the rules back. However Everybody knows that it's a penalty when 2 players dance in the endzone, so how can a professional NFL player like Dupree and others continue to do it. This is just stupid to continue to get penalized for the same thing.

 

LOL at your profile pic!! My sister and I burst out laughing when they showed her on national tv

 

Yeah, but Dupree's just a kid that doesn't know any better, so I blame Gay

 

http://www.steelersdepot.com/2016/01/watch-bengals-rb-jeremy-hill-fought-karma-and-guess-who-won/

 

You would think that running 75 yards clear across the field, through the endzone, through the tunnel, around the bend, and all the way to the locker room, while picking up a convoy along the way, would fit under the definition of "excessive celebration", but apparently not.

 

I thought that only applied to TD's.

 

Yes, they do, but they have to stop costing us 15 yards. They need to find other ways to show emotion without it hurting us on the field.

 

Yeah, I thought for sure it was going to be nullified, but I guess that's not the way it works

 

I guess the reasoning is based on other dead ball penalties. Consider, for example, a play gets called dead for a false start, but an LB runs in and slams the QB anyway. That's still a penalty, even though the play hasn't happened.

The lack of a call on Burfict is a mystery. My only guess is the officials allowed for the emotion of the situation. Not right, though.