Alright, it’s official. The “Excessive Celebration” penalty has jumped the shark with the call just made against Green Bay. Totally, completely pathetic. I can’t believe the NFL didn’t take the zebra’s aside and order them not to call that penalty during the game. Simply amazing.
We need a full-fledged fan revolt against the most ridiculous penalty every devised for football. Really. If Florio wants to try and exert some clout, he should get on that bandwagon now.
UPDATE: YES!!! Packers 31 Steelers 25
I don’t know if it’s one of the greatest, but it was a great game to watch. Two evenly matched teams that brought their best games for 60 minutes against one another. Hard to ask for more than that. Fantastic. Plus the Steelers lost- the best I could hope for from this one.
Nothing better than knowing there’s a bunch of depressed Steeler fans stomping around tonight. Now I don’t have to listen to Harrison talk about how he beat the league; or how Roethlisberger overcame all his adversity and all the other silly BS storylines the sports media was working up.
As far as the commercials go, easily the Volkswagen commercial with Mini-Vader was the best one. The first couple of Pepsi Max commercials with the can off the noggin routine were good, but Mini-Vader takes it. The force was strong in that one.
UPDATE II: Here’s a link to that Volkswagen commercial: