There is a balance to be had here because there is a difference in celebrating and hot dogging. We had a player at Arizona last year that was flagged after a TD pass that caused him to end up at the fence. He slapped hands with ONE fan who was leaning down and was flagged for excessive celebration. That was a chickenchit call. But high-stepping, finger-pointing, booty-bumping showoffs deserve their flags. incidently, as I recall, the flag against Davis was reversed by the trailing ref who saw that Davis was trying to evade a tackler right on top of him.
Agree. All that diving and flipping and pointing fingers and head shaking seems to me no different than a batter showing up a pitcher after knocking a tater into the stands. Baseball, being the game that it is, has a way to address such behavior. Next at bat, dude's wearing a baseball earring or a seam tattoo. A little class goes a long way. I love it when the kids just hand the ball to the official and do their celebrating back at the bench.
Because it is illegal and the players no the rule. Every school gets hit by one of these penalties now and then and the coaches get pissed, not at the refs but at the players. One of the reasons we beat Oregon St was because of this, one of their players was hit with a personal foul and the kicker subsequesntly missed the 35 yard extra point.
