Comments on: Stokley: Thomas, Decker were mad that I stopped their celebration

By: mattacognition1

mattacognition1 — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 22:58:58 +0000

This ain’t your grandpa’s league folks. Celebrations equal TV facetime, facetime equals money. Don’t hate the player, hate the game. It seems to me like the league’s ratings and profits are perpetually skyrocketing. If you have a problem with the “buffoonery” then send a message to the league and stop watching. Yeah, I didn’t think so. Go complain elsewhere about how the league was better before the 24-7 media circus. An NFL messageboard on the web is probably not your ideal forum.
P.S.
If you read all the posts before mine then you have spent a good chunk of time contemplating an event that lasted all of 10 seconds. You know each of the players names involved too, huh?
Exactly.

By: thegreatgabbert

thegreatgabbert — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:16:48 +0000

They were “hopping” mad.

By: axespray

axespray — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:28:52 +0000

Dude showed some Bart Starr type of leadership… keeping his soldiers in line and focused on winning.

By: protagoras111

protagoras111 — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:25:45 +0000

Decker slides to avoid potentially big hits (see game against Texans). Now he has a coordinated TD celebration? Chump.

By: ttoptom

ttoptom — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:23:01 +0000

I have to agree with the main point of “educatedopinion2073″: I watched the Arizona/49ers game last night and one of the Card’s DT made a sack in the 4th quarter with the score down 24-3 and decided to strike a WWF pose. Really? Do you realize just how bad you suck?
Ego does not equal Pride.

By: CKL

CKL — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:17:49 +0000

Slim Charles says:
Oct 30, 2012 10:51 AM
I can’t wait till everyone over 60 dies so people stop complaining about TD celebrations.
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We old timers (I’m not close to 60, but this still applies) will be happy to comply if all you young’uns with your love for “swagger” (puke) and strutting around the field celebrating routine plays when your team is losing and trash talking to the media after losses do the same.

By: sagnam

sagnam — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:17:10 +0000

I’m in my 30′s and I think touchdown celebrations are stupid.

By: scotchrocks

scotchrocks — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:03:13 +0000

mack2x says:

“scotchrocks”- You seem to be easily amused

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I do enjoy a good laugh.

But my larger point is, that if you put scoring a TD in the context of the tens of millions (hundreds maybe?) of people that love the game, being one of the thousands that can actually do it, I’d celebrate each and everytime.

There’s also the point of Not For Long. So acting as if you are guaranteed the opportunity to score a TD again, seems to disregard how quickly a career can end.

*Marcus Lattimore head nod*

By: scotchrocks

scotchrocks — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:55:29 +0000

hadjiali says:

“And excessive TD celebrations are for children and classless buffoons who forget that football is the ultimate TEAM sport.”

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Just as I said before, hilarious.

Would it be less classless if the entire team was involved? Or would that make it even more excessive?

By: mack2x

mack2x — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:38:40 +0000

“scotchrocks”- You seem to be easily amused

By: granadafan

granadafan — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:34:52 +0000

“keeppounding says:
Oct 30, 2012 11:29 AM
I agree with Stokely and what he did. That being said. I think clever touchdown celebrations at very entertaining. Why not let them enjoy themselves. Again, I liked the leadership and what he did. I also would have enjoyed the celebration they wanted to try.”
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Why not let themselves enjoy themselves??? Because it would have been a penalty!! If you’re a donkey fan, how happy would you have been if the ref penalized them 15 yards for their “clever touchdown celebration” (your words)? Read your post again and see the fallacy of your argument. I don’t like the NFL’s stance on celebrations, but those are the rules.

PS, Stokley also saved those two knucklehead from Peyton’s wrath.

By: drewfl

drewfl — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:24:09 +0000

meh.. 2 young receivers just having a good time. I don’t see the big deal

By: winkeroni

winkeroni — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:16:55 +0000

Flags should be thrown only in the event that a celebration is awful. If a dude is gyrating like Elvis, throw a flag!!!!

By: hadjiali

hadjiali — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:16:08 +0000

@jesse

You obviously never watched Barry play. But you’re right about one thing: he wasn’t Sweetness or Emmitt. With due respect to those 2, Barry was better, plain and simple.

And excessive TD celebrations are for children and classless buffoons who forget that football is the ultimate TEAM sport.

By: dgforreal

dgforreal — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:12:04 +0000

He saved them from Peyton, I’m sure he would have ripped them a new one if they drew that penalty.

By: gpry

gpry — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:54:04 +0000

@tiedyeguy…Stokley a bully??? Ye must be a pansy Democrat

By: insanelomein2

insanelomein2 — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:52:28 +0000

If you’re still catching touchdowns from Tebow then sure do an elaborate celebration since good throws are few and far between.

If you’re catching touchdowns from Manning then no need to have a planned out celebration. Manning makes the mediocre look great .

By: tlmoon2112

tlmoon2112 — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:48:43 +0000

Maybe they should Tebow in the endzone next time and see how that works out.

By: jasoncnz

jasoncnz — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:45:53 +0000

Way to go Stoke! Hopefully those 2 kids learn alot from you!!!

By: grandmachine

grandmachine — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:37:33 +0000

I’ve seen him stop Brandon Marshall’s TD celebration against the Browns a few years back. My level of respect for Stokley soared. Every team should have a player like Stokley. Sure, he’s not the player like he was a few years ago, but a little veteran leadership and showing by example can go a long way for the young guys. There’s nothing with celebrating when scoring a TD, but you shouldn’t be jeopardizing your team by going over the top. We’ve seen it happen at it costs some teams a game.

By: theandy59

theandy59 — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:35:37 +0000

I love what Stokely did because he saved his team from a meaningless penalty. There’s a rule against that sort of thing, so whether you like it or not, the players need to follow it.

Having said that, I really have no problem with celebrations after scores; I can’t stand guys who spend as much time thinking about celebrations as they do about actually scoring (talking to you, Ocho), but the rest seems harmless. And if anyone didn’t think Gronkowski’s “little nut-cracker dude..” routine wasn’t hilarious, they need to lighten up a bit.

By: scotchrocks

scotchrocks — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:20:07 +0000

I always find the people that say that TD celebrations are “disrespecting the game” funny. I also find the folks that say “act like you’ve been there before” equally hilarious.

By: dillpx183

dillpx183 — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:18:06 +0000

they should start flagging for 1st down dances and dances for tackling someone behind the line of scrimmage. its not entertaining its stupid. College ball is just as entertaining without the circus crap.

Celebrations after a big hit on someonewho just caught a 25yrd pass also drives me nuts. Congrats you laid him out, too bad you were too worried about the hit (not tackle) that they just covered a 1/4 of the field on you. Idiots…

By: tindeaux

tindeaux — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:13:39 +0000

good job, brandon. keep it up. you are there for a reason.

By: jessethegreat

jessethegreat — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:13:25 +0000

A page from Barry Sanders’ book? Only reasons he never celebrated were because he barely reached the end zone and when he did, he was already out of gas from having spent half his time dancing behind the line of scrimmage. I’m sick of people putting Barry way up on this pedestal. He was no Sweetness or Emmitt. He is a quitter plain and simple.

By: billyboehemian

billyboehemian — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:10:57 +0000

Too bad he wasn’t there to stop Matt Prater from getting his tribal arm-band tat. Step it up, 14!

By: usmutts

usmutts — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:10:40 +0000

This was a good play by Stokley. The second best play of the weekend came after Jimmy Graham caught a meaningless garbage-time touchdown in the beatdown by the Broncos. He simply threw the ball down, went straight to the sidelines and sat down, leaving out his usual celebratory crossbar dunk.

By: arlingtonsynn

arlingtonsynn — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:06:03 +0000

Notice that at the end of the game when Jimmy Graham scored, he simply tossed the ball to the ref and didn’t do his crossbar dunk.

You don’t celebrate when down big or when up big.

Stokely just saved Decker and DT an ass reaming from Peyton.

By: qualityantiqueradios

qualityantiqueradios — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:03:08 +0000

I’m a bartender. I spike the shaker, twirl a lemon, and dance around the bar every time I make somebody’s drink properly.

By: joetoronto

joetoronto — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:48:27 +0000

“I mean, they were mad at me on the sideline for stopping them,” Stokley told Mike Klis of the Denver Post. “It’s tough being a dad sometimes, you know?”

This is a classic example of why you need veterans on your team.

Those two donkeys are probably still wondering what they did wrong.