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[WashedUp]

Apparently this is an NCAA rule, but I have never seen it enforced. Anyone care to comment?

It's a new rule this year and the only person I know that was penalized for it is LSU's punter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2ivK1pt1aY

As far as I'm concerned,no amount of celebrating by a punter is excessive.

[Gray Fox]

I saw it in a Texas high school game by the "other" team.

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[speedybigboy]

Touchdown celebration penalty costs Mass. team a state title
By Cameron Smith

When he raised his fist on his way to the end zone, Boston (Mass.) Cathedral High quarterback Matt Owens thought he was celebrating the score that would hand his school a surprising Super Bowl title. Instead, he was doing the one thing that could keep them from it: Earning a penalty on a play where there was nothing but green turf between himself and the end zone.

"The state uses NCAA rules and regulations for its football competitions, and The College Football Officiating guidelines state the following in regards to unsportsmanlike conduct on a play that results in a touchdown: If the ball is alive when the player makes a taunting gesture, then the penalty is enforced at the spot of the foul - and the key outcome: no touchdown."

Read more here:  http://rivals.yahoo.com/highschool/blog/prep_rally/post/Touchdown-celebration-penalty-costs-Mass-team-a?urn=highschool-wp9491

Apparently this is an NCAA rule, but I have never seen it enforced. Anyone care to comment?

I find the anti-celebration rules to be ridiculous.  The penalty on that high school kid was even worse.  He didn't taunt or even look at the opponent, he raised his hand in the air.

And Washed Up, I would consider ANY amount of celebrating by a punter excessive, 

[Gig Harbor Cat]

Not a problem K4-- Happy to take care of watering your plants, but this time it wont be with ole Blue !!

[BearcatFan]

Touchdown celebration penalty costs Mass. team a state title
By Cameron Smith

When he raised his fist on his way to the end zone, Boston (Mass.) Cathedral High quarterback Matt Owens thought he was celebrating the score that would hand his school a surprising Super Bowl title. Instead, he was doing the one thing that could keep them from it: Earning a penalty on a play where there was nothing but green turf between himself and the end zone.

"The state uses NCAA rules and regulations for its football competitions, and The College Football Officiating guidelines state the following in regards to unsportsmanlike conduct on a play that results in a touchdown: If the ball is alive when the player makes a taunting gesture, then the penalty is enforced at the spot of the foul - and the key outcome: no touchdown."

Read more here:  http://rivals.yahoo.com/highschool/blog/prep_rally/post/Touchdown-celebration-penalty-costs-Mass-team-a?urn=highschool-wp9491

Apparently this is an NCAA rule, but I have never seen it enforced. Anyone care to comment?

What harm does such "celebration" do? Will the feelings of players on the opposing team -- or their fans -- be hurt? Will they be "offended?" If you don't want to see such "celebration" then stop the other team from scoring!

This fist raising is not even "celebrating" in my book.  Ridiculous...

Get over it!

OTOH, I'm a proponent of "act like you've been there before" when scoring a TD, and I agree with the fining of Bills' Steve Johnson for mocking Plaxico Burress shooting himself in the leg as a gesture of celebration.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Agreed.  Except the 'fist raising' IS celebrating, which SHOULD be fine; it is 'taunting' which deserves a penalty.  The kid is just about to win the state title - what fully human kid (or adult, for that matter) wouldn't celebrate?!   (If he had held the ball out towards the defender pursuing him, THAT is taunting and deserves a penalty; penalizing him for what he did is beyond ridiculous.)

[D O.C.]

Is bad publicity better than no publicity?

http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20111208/SPORTS08/112080317/Wesley-seeks-end-all-purple-final

[Tuxguy]

               

[BearcatFan]

Congrats to Jamiere Abney for being named to the "Stars & Stripes" team for the 2011 Tazon de Estrellas

http://www.willamette.edu/athletics/news/archive/2011/12/09_FB_Abney_Tazon_de_Estrellas.php

[BearcatFan]

Is bad publicity better than no publicity?

http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20111208/SPORTS08/112080317/Wesley-seeks-end-all-purple-final

Wait...  isn't any publicity good publicity?

Nate Dixon might disagree...

[desertcat1]

that was cold BARECATFAN....  SHAME ON YOU..

But , i guess you just don't understand what it is like to get to the second round of the playoffs

Go Cats
Go Big D

[desertcat1]

Can Wesley be the PURPLE PEOPLE EATER'S AGAIN TODAY ?  GOOD LUCK 

[BearcatFan]

that was cold BARECATFAN....  SHAME ON YOU..

But , i guess you just don't understand what it is like to get to the second round of the playoffs

Go Cats
Go Big D

Not for a few years, anyway   

[RedandPurple]

FYI:
Wesley 7 Mount Union 13 2nd. 13:29 

Live Streaming on ESPN 3. The link is on the D3 Football home page. It's also on pay per view.

Okay here is the link:    http://www.d3football.com/scoreboard/composite?view=15