I know that this is going to be hard to believe if you've only been watching football for the past two or three decades, but there used to be a thing called Good Sportsmanship which meant, among other things, that you didn't act like an asshole when you made a good play or scored a touchdown.
The first game I remember watching was the Ice Bowl. Strangely enough, after Bart Starr scored the game winning touchdown in one of the most memorable games in the history of the NFL, he did not leap to his feet and begin twerking.
I miss those days.
As much as I still love football . . . which is quite a bit . . . every time a big play is made or a touchdown is scored, I just look at the fool(s) dancing and think, "Please stop that." It's not only ungentlemanly . . . it's unmanly. We've got rules against unsportsmanlike conduct; why doesn't that include this kind of thing?
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