NFL "Player of the Year" 2013...

[Ryno12]

Personally, I can live with end zone celebration.

This was definitely funny and a little pathetic, but I find excitement and celebration to be part of the game if its tasteful and doesn't get into taunting.

Yeah, I agree. I enjoy Pro football. I'm not a freakshow fanatic that knows all the stats. Just a Sun afternoon, beer drinking kinda fan. Whenever I see someone pull this kind of stuff, I just say to myself "Ha, Ha you knucklehead. That's what you get." Unless it's the Packers, then I get pissed & start bitching at the TV.

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[Gutshot John]

Used to be a diehard Steelers fan, and this season's bad start notwithstanding I've totally given up on professional football. It's just too much money and too many overpaid assholes (Ben ****ing Roethlisberger). I grew up with Chuck Noll who pretty much instituted the endzone celebration rule in the NFL and he was a class act. His famous quip was "act like you've been there before."

The people who obsess over fantasy football make it even worse. I'm sticking to college ball from now on.

Professional sports has become another sad symbol of how crass this culture has become.

Hockey so far seems somewhat immune but I'm sure that will change. I've always hated the game basketball.

[Pork Chop]

Hockey so far seems somewhat immune

That's because it's completely irrelevant.

[SteyrAUG]

"act like you've been there before."

Sums it up nicely.

I'm sure there was a time when professional sports were "mostly" populated with respectable individuals who didn't try and act like "rock stars." But that hasn't been the case for a long time and I have no time for the Kanye Wests who can run fast and catch a ball.

[Jer]

As a Bronco fan this pissed me off to no end to see him do that. I clowned Desean Jackson of the Eagles for the same thing years ago as I can't stand show boating. This guy had done some good things to this point but this one move lost a LOT of respect from me.

[Jer]

He's a rookie player that just bagged an interception off the Superbowl Winning Chump Joe Flacco, it would have been his first TD as a NFL player. Got a little excited.

Whats with all the hate towards professional sports here lately? They are paid the amounts they are because we as fans pay to see them play.

If you don't like pro sports then don't watch and don't bitch, easy enough.








And yes, I'm a Bronco's fan.

Apparently not that big of a Bronco fan because he's not a rookie... this is his second season.

[CarlosDJackal]

Professional Athletes, especially NFL players, are nothing more than overpaid cry-babies. This is why I refuse to spend any of my hard-earned cash on any game or memorabilia.

[jwfuhrman]

Apparently not that big of a Bronco fan because he's not a rookie... this is his second season.

Still a rookie in my book.

[Jer]

Still a rookie in my book.

Yeah... except he's not.

[Safetyhit]

As a Bronco fan this pissed me off to no end to see him do that. I clowned Desean Jackson of the Eagles for the same thing years ago as I can't stand show boating. This guy had done some good things to this point but this one move lost a LOT of respect from me.

While I'm still an Eagles fan to a large extent, the likes of a Jackson and Vick on the team accompanied by free agency in general makes it feel like 100 years from the glory days of the late 80's/early 90's. Still with the new coach tonight's game is one of the more anticipated around here in some time.

As far as the blatant haters, personally I ignore them when the rhetoric goes beyond acknowledging that there a few bad apples in the group and rises to sheer viscous disdain for professional sports in general. Often, but not always, this stems from personal insecurity.