Apparently Suh got fined again

[manchild98]

for a throat slash gesture in the Tampa game. I didn't notice it. That gesture has been banned for 14 years already? Wow.



That's because the NFL has fined Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh $7,875 for making a throat-slash gesture in the team's Week 12 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

After a tackle of Bucs running back Bobby Rainey for a three-yard loss in the game, an overexcited Suh made the gesture ? which was banned by the NFL in 1999.

Suh now has been fined three times this season for a whopping total of $139,375. He was fined $100,000 for an illegal low block against Minnesota Vikings center John Sullivan after a turnover in Week 1, and later $31,500 for a roughing-the-passer foul against Cleveland Browns quarterback Brandon Weeden in Week 6.

 

[Monster]

No Fun League strikes again.

I'm so sick of celebrating and taunting being illegal. College...sure. High School...definitely. But a pro league where players are given 8 and 9 figure contracts? Fuck off, NFL.

 

[Mitchrapp]

Celebrating is fine but taunting should be illegal.

 

[sggatecl]

He didn't do it in the general direction of any players at all. But I remember when I saw him do it, I said out loud that he'd get fined.

 

[Thumb]

I wonder if the amount of his fines have even exceeded the money he got to do the high dive show on TV last summer?

 

[manchild98]

Celebrating is fine but taunting should be illegal.

This is about to happen real soon. I definitely seem them adding this rule.


When Seahawks receiver Golden Tate began waving at Rams safety Rodney McLeod at the 25-yard line on Tate?s way to an 80-yard touchdown, the official threw the flag before Tate had even crossed the goal line. But even though Tate committed a penalty before he scored, the touchdown still counted.

Next season, a player who does the same thing may negate his own touchdown.

NFL head of officiating Dean Blandino said on NFL Network that he thinks the Competition Committee will explore changing the NFL?s taunting rules to make them more similar to the taunting rules in the NCAA. In college football, if a player commits a taunting penalty on a touchdown, the touchdown is called back and the 15-yard penalty is enforced from the spot where the taunting began.

?A lot of people felt that the touchdown shouldn?t have counted [but] a taunting foul is always treated as a dead-ball foul, meaning whatever happened during the play counts, and the foul is enforced on the next play, which would be the kickoff,? Blandino said. ?In college, this action would take back the touchdown. Tate started taunting at the 25-yard line. The college rule, that?s enforced at the spot of the foul, so they?d go from a touchdown to first-and-10 at the 40, which would be a gigantic penalty. The NFL rule, it?s a dead-ball foul, it?s enforced on the kickoff. But I?m sure that?s something that the Competition Committee will look at in the offseason.?

Taking away a touchdown for taunting seems awfully harsh. Then again, there?s a simple way to avoid that happening: Don?t taunt.

 

[cheeno]

He didn't do it in the general direction of any players at all. But I remember when I saw him do it, I said out loud that he'd get fined.

Same, I though he'd get fined. I remember when they made it illegal too.

 

[Monster]

Celebrating is fine but taunting should be illegal.

why? I don't see the point. You can't stand over someone you just knocked the fuck out and call him a pussy? This is not what this country was founded on!!!

 

[mhughes0021]

100000 for a low block is srsly dumb....I would sue the nfl.

 

[cheeno]

why? I don't see the point. You can't stand over someone you just knocked the fuck out and call him a pussy? This is not what this country was founded on!!!

 

[Mitchrapp]

why? I don't see the point. You can't stand over someone you just knocked the fuck out and call him a pussy? This is not what this country was founded on!!!

Call him it as he's walking away but why stand over him? Or do a slashing gesture or put the football in someone's face after making a play. That's just bad sportsmanship. Do a Barry / CJ and make a play and give the ref the ball..

 

[schles192]

Call him it as he's walking away but why stand over him? Or do a slashing gesture or put the football in someone's face after making a play. That's just bad sportsmanship. Do a Barry / CJ and make a play and give the ref the ball..

I agree for offensive players, when people pop up and do the first down gesture it looks stupid but on defense have fun and celebrate but not at the expense of your opponent.