Yeah, the NFL really started cracking down on them in the 80s and 90s, but I guess they finally realized they weren’t a big deal and fans enjoyed them. You can still get in trouble for using props, like I said, or if they’re lewd or vulgar (someone simulated taking a dump in the endzone once . . . that will still get you penalized and fined). But dances, solo or group, choreographed or spontaneous, spiking the ball, spinning the ball, etc., are all fine.
I went down a bit of a rabbit hole on the history of this in the NFL. Homer Jones, a wide receiver for the New York Giants, is credited with the first post touchdown end zone celebration, spiking the football, in 1965. He’s even the one who decided to call it a “spike”. Interestingly, he did that because players like Frank Gifford and Paul Horning had been celebrating touchdowns by throwing the ball at the opposing team’s fans in the stands, which caused the NFL to enact a rule in 1965 that would fine players for throwing the ball into the stands. Jones didn’t want to get fined, so he came up with throwing the ball hard into the ground. The first end zone dance celebration was by Elmo Wright a few years later. The NFL didn’t ban “excessive celebrations” until the Washington Redskins started doing a group high 5 in 1983. It’s funny that something so tame by today’s standards triggered a rules change.
Broomhill FC have announced that the club has dissolved.
Originally founded as Broomhill Sports Club in 2004, then as BSC Glasgow in 2014 and Broomhill FC in 2021, the club played in the Scottish Lowland League last season.
However, they will not be involved from the upcoming season with the termination of a groundshare agreement with Dumbarton, “continued frustrations in securing support for our own facility,” and sustainability measures to run the club cited as reasons for the club coming to an end.
According to court documents obtained by MMA Fighting, Shin alleges she has endured “extreme psychological abuse” at the hands of her son, with Penn accusing her of being an imposter who “killed his family” and assumed his mother’s identity. Shin told a Hawaii court she believes her son suffers from Capgras syndrome, a rare psychological disorder that often causes people to falsely believe those close to them are imposters masquerading as family or friends.
While there is no single known cause, brain injuries and neurodegenerative diseases are believed to be among the potential mitigating factors, along with schizophrenia or other mental-health conditions.
A football team from a small town in the Netherlands with a population under 4,000 will be playing in the Eredivisie next season, against giants like Ajax, Feyenoord and PSV Eindhoven.
Congratulations to SC Telstar, and I wish you luck.
yeah, those darn kids are to blame… Maybe, just maybe… there is something deeper happening in the world and we should actually try to figure out what’s happening rather than just assume it’s a bunch of hooligans, DW…
Sure, but the tensions in society are absolutely fertile ground for weaponizing the violence of the jocks… let’s not forget that soccer hooliganism has been a recruiting ground for nationalist movements, for example during the war in Bosnia. The question is how are those jocks directed and when do they go from annoying local problem to foot soldiers of genocide. We should also think about young working class men being blamed for social problems caused by the neoliberal economy. I think it’s important to remember such things as the Netflix series Athena, which explored social unrest as a byproduct of social and racial inequality…
Often times jocks seek to weaponize such divisions in order to get an outlet for violence, but there are underlying problems being swept under the rug being ignored.
Maybe, just maybe… there is something deeper happening in the world and we should actually try to figure out what’s happening rather than just assume it’s a bunch of hooligans, DW…
