An Impossibly Smug Bob Costas Lectures America On Class, NFL End Zone Celebrations

Costas not allowed to have an opinion?  Has a point as well.

Costas, as usual, hits the nail on the head.  These overpaid big babies should know better, and the coaches do nothing to reel them in.  Imagine if a baseball player did something like that after a home run.  Scoring a touchdown has devolved into a game of one-upmanship of who can do a better stoopid dance.

Imagining a baseball game where the players are allowed to show emotion? Where a batter can look at his home run for more than 3 seconds without getting a ball thrown at his head? Holy shit I might actually watch! That’s what’s fun about the NBA and NFL (in the past). You can actually show emotion and celebrate. God forbid Chad Ochocinco picks up a pilon and pretends to knock in a putt. Lord Knows the children will be scarred for life if they see T.O. do a dance in the endzone. Nah, I’d rather watch baseball with its endless list of unwritten rules of etiquette. 

“Scoring a touchdown has devolved into a game of one-upmanship of who can do a better stoopid dance.”

Do you always post after being in a coma for the last 5 years? Your friends are messed up for not letting you know Paul Tagliabue is no longer comish.

There’s a big difference between showing emotion and celebrating with your teammates or fans, and running rehearsed skits in the endzone becuase scoring isn’t good enough; you have to show up your opponents and act like a jackass.  See, i find the sport itself entertaining enough (football or baseball) and i don’t need pre-planned garbage from these prima donnas that does nothing more than pad their resume for tv life after the football.  It really is sad when everything has to be about the individual and not about the team as a whole.  I also love when players from teams that are losing games by 21 points still do their sack dance or signal their own first down becuase all they’re tell anyone is that “too hell with whether we win or lose, LOOK AT ME”.  And a 15yrd flag obviously isn’t enough anymore,  becuase when the player doesn’t even care if the team wins or loses the game, what’s the point of a flag.  These guys need to be fined because the only thing that they pay attention to is their bank account.  I’d also start fining the coaches too, maybe then they’d sit these idiots when they perform like circus clowns.

Maybe he should save this material for his one season of Bob Costas Live. 

In team sports one of the biggest ideals is, “Don’t put yourself above the team.” These TD celebrations are all about ignoring that ideal. I can’t say as I blame them, though. Football is a tough sport where the average career, IIRC, is around 5 years. You have to get paid and paid quickly and it gets much easier to get paid depending on how much of a “Household Name” you are in the league. But, how will you do that if you are stuck on a perennial loser in a tiny market like Buffalo? Come up with an “awesome” TD dance and get on Sports Center!

I’m not a fantasy-head with football, I like my team, and follow the others at a bit of a distance. I have never heard of Stevie Johnson before this. For Stevie this is “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!” because now everyone has…..and that’s the point.

Fining coaches for the actions of their players. LOL. You make Robert Goodell sound like a libertarian.

That would be terrifying.

Costas early in the piece gives kudos to the invention of ‘spiking’ the football in endzone.  He never once ‘scolds’ the players for celebrations on par with that, but instead with celebrations that hurt the team with penalties, and wondered why the coaches aren’t more proactive about such ‘celebrations’.  He wasn’t smug at all.   Blaming it on the current generation of players is ridiculous. I grew up in the 1980′s and clearly remember the dreaded ”Icky Shuffle” in Cincinanti.  That was possibly the worse thing ever. 

Oh dude he’s totally smug. Look at the look on his face when the camera opens on him! He’s clearly enjoying the smell of his own farts (and yes, that’s my expert opinion).

If you think Costas did an elaborate celebratory dance, you obviously missed the whole point. Yes, he can be smug (not judging this-didn’t watch it) but that doesn’t make him wrong. I’d love to smash the self-righteous ‘tude right off Bryant Gumbel’s face most of the time he opens his mouth but he’s right on the money quite a bit. God forbid everyone acted like Barry Sanders when they scored (or just caught a pass-I’m talking to you as an Eagles fan DJack); then all we’d have to watch is f*cking football — wouldn’t that suck. Don’t get me wrong; I don’t mind a little celebration and I disagree with some of the stupid NFL rules, but there is a growing culture of exhibitionist oneupmanship that is starting to cost teams field position and even games. I know that if I was a head football coach I would completely lose my sh*t if I lost a game because one of my players couldn’t employ the self-control of a three-year old.