Football Question

The flag is thrown for "excessive" or "prolonged" celebration. Spontaneous display of excitement, like spiking a ball, is OK (unless the spike is directed at a player of the opposing team). Organized group celebration or anything choreographed using foreign objects/props is subject to the penalty. Now, you also cannot celebrate while on the ground. So no more break dancing.

umm, no. this aint college.

Actually, you're not supposed to use the football as a prop during your celebration (TO using the ball to resemble a video camera) .  With that being said, spiking the football should be a penalty.

What's the reason? I really enjoy college sports.

And, spiking the ball at any time is an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty in college football. MUCH tighter rules on stuff like that.

But how then will the kiddies learn to imitate their heroes and grow up to be obnoxious wankers on the sportsfield??

Either you can use the football as a prop during TD celebration or you can't.  I consider spiking the ball a TD celebration!  It should be a penalty.

I suppose some of it is because my dad didn't watch it much.  I suppose some of it is I don't watch it much, but I don't see the same competitiveness that I can usually see in pro sports, unless it's a major game (like the playoffs).  Or maybe I'm just watching the wrong season games.  

Believe it or not, I'm a very aggressive and competitive person when it comes to sports, and I guess I like to see that when watching it, too. 

I'm not saying that there aren't any college athletes that are competitive.  I guess I just don't see enough of it.  On the other hand, I'm not saying all pro athletes are competitive.  Moss is a great player, but he's also a good example of this.  If he didn't want to play, he basically didn't.  There were just some games that he lacked a competitive drive, yet, at the same time, he had tons of it during other games.