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State Championship lost due to taunting
Topic Started: Dec 7 2011, 05:51 PM (343 Views)
Copper
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I kind of like the anti-taunting rule, but this is crazy - check out the video in the link.

In Massachusetts the High School football State Championship is known as the Super Bowl - my high school has won it's share.

http://www.nesn.com/2011/12/cathedral-high-school-loses-super-bowl-on-very-questionable-penalty-call-for-celebration-taunting.html

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Cathedral High School Loses Super Bowl on Very Questionable Penalty Call for Celebration, Taunting

by Michael Hurley on Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 10:49AM

The message, apparently, is this: We want kids to go out, enjoy playing sports, enjoy competing and try to win a state championship. We just don't want them to soak it in -- that's outlawed.

That's the case with Cathedral High School and Matthew Owens, who scored what should have been the Super Bowl-winning touchdown over the weekend, capping off what should have been an undefeated season and securing what should have been the school's first-ever Super Bowl victory. However, as the Boston Herald reports, the touchdown was nullified because Owens raised his hand over his head for about one second in celebration as he ran toward the end zone (watch the play in the Video of the Day section). A new Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association rule, instituted this year, "bans any celebratory or taunting behavior by someone scoring a touchdown."

It might be safe to say that rule needs to be reworked. Despite the rule being followed to the letter of the law, Cathedral was obviously disappointed by the penalty call.

"[The game] got taken away from us, and what else can you do," Cathedral coach Duane Sigsbury told ESPN.com after the game. "If you're going to take away from a kid being excited because he just made the play of his life, shame on you."

It would be easy to pile on the official who threw the flag, but it likely wasn't easy for him, either. It is not up to the official to agree or disagree with the rulebook; it's simply his job to enforce it. Nevertheless, the 18-year-old's father, Kenneth Owens, as you can imagine disagreed with the call.

"He goes to a Catholic school where they are taught that their God is in the sky," Owens' father told the Herald. "So I know when he raised his hand, he was thanking his Lord for what happened to him today. Football is a team sport. There's lot of kids that are hurting today."

They're hurting because they're not robots, and they feel emotions, just like Owens felt as he experienced the glory that every high school athlete dreams of tasting once.



Mayor Menino doesn't like it

http://www.nesn.com/2011/12/boston-mayor-thomas-menino-blasts-miaa-as-frustrated-athletes-for-celebration-rule-that-cost-team-su.html
The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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Too strict of a rule, perhaps, but he should've at least waited until he crossed the goal line where it might have been overlooked. Instead he does it at the 25-yard line. For a second, I thought he might've been celebrating a little too early, like this guy:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UD0QtUeXbI
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Copper
Dec 7 2011, 05:51 PM
"He goes to a Catholic school where they are taught that their God is in the sky," Owens' father told the Herald. "So I know when he raised his hand, he was thanking his Lord for what happened to him today.
uh huh.
Pfft.
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Nothing makes me sicker than people with authority righteously wielding it in ways they're too simple to realize are horrible.
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I'm lost on this one.

What great social message was conveyed that will make these young people "better" by this decision??

Nuts.

(I do confess that for the NFL, I cringe whenever a touchdown is made, and the guy acts like an idiot with dancing or prancing, something obviously rehearsed in front of a mirror)
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Certainly seems a little over the top to call a penalty on that, but I do agree the celebrating nonsense needs to stop, and I guess they feel it has to start at this level. He must have known he shouldn't do that, so I don't have a lot of sympathy. You play a game, you play by the rules.
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Dec 7 2011, 09:23 PM
What great social message was conveyed that will make these young people "better" by this decision??
That sport is a complete waste of time, and that God doesn't give a toss about it either.

If society would just remember that, I think we'd all be a bit better off.
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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Horace
Dec 7 2011, 08:54 PM
Nothing makes me sicker than people with authority righteously wielding it in ways they're too simple to realize are horrible.
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Dammed liberal refs!
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I'd recommend a 5-second rule on celebrating. I like to see people enjoy the moment and celebrate, as long as it is not a big drawn out production. I also enjoy taunting, chipping, barking, mouthing off. Makes sports great.
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