Excessive celebration!?! Are you kidding me

You are correct sir !

 

Awesome!!!

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This is what I think of for the term:

 

No. Just get your a$$ into the endzone and THEN celebrate/showboat.

You're right, he earned every one of those yards--and punters and kickers don't get into the endzone much (unless they play for LSU that is), but rules are rules. It's a rule that has ZERO TOLERANCE and NOT left for interpretation by the official. It should have been made clear before the season started: They see it, they'll call it.

It's a stupid rule to begin with--after all, football is a physical, intense and highly emotional game. Always has been. Always will be....unless they keep making these sill rules changes.

But, like I said, it's a rule. No one has to like it, but Wing should have just gotten in butt into the endzone. You're a punter, dude! It's easy to taunt when you're protected 99.9% of the time from the opponent laying you out the entire game.

 

Lot's of talk about "excessive". The CBS play-callers, you know who they are, said that the rule's intent was to require some sort of "egregious" behavior. Let's assume that is true. Then we must define egregious.

I'd like anyone to explain to me how that was "egregious". As mentioned throughout this thread, in real time, you can't even see it.

 

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT_TGuoLdmk"]LSU Punter Brad Wing Fake Punt for TD before penalty - YouTube[/ame]

 

Except that's not actually what they called. That's just what the talking heads on TV spewed...and seemingly everyone takes as fact.

The call was taunting. The rule is in this thread. It doesn't even mention the word egregious.

 

I do not doubt for a minute Wing will get another chance make a TD. Les will pull the trigger before it's all said and done this season. Hopefully against the Gumps.

 

That is yet to be seen. At the end of the season, we can review how often this penalty is called and under what circumstances. I didn't like the call but we won by 30 so I'm not losing any sleep over it and I smile every time the media replays that run. This is a totally subjective penalty, I don't see how you can say it's not left for interpretation.

Isn't diving into the endzone when no defender is around a case of taunting? to me it is - see, subjective. I'll be expecting a flag anytime a runner looks over his shoulder and raises his arms on the way to a TD.