"Hand grenade" Celebration

BktBallRef

Be prety hard to call fouls on 11 players. I'm for flagging the guy who tossed the grenade.

SC Ump

tjones1 wrote
Charging all 11 players with an USC or just A88?

You carry 11 flags with you? 🙂

Also, if I'm doing the math right, 🙄 I guess B could take seven of them on the try (which would be from A's 6 & 3/4th yard line) and use the other five on the kick off (which would be from K's 1 & 9/16ths yard line.)

With_Two_Flakes

It wouldn't go BANG if A88 hadn't pulled the pin. I figure it's his fault so he gets the flag.

Gotta stamp this out amongst players, grenades are reserved for the officials assessor to throw at the crew in his write-up if they huddle up when they shouldn't - "one grenade could get you all!".

Robert Goodman

Is proximity of the players of the same team a decisive factor as to whether they've joined the celebration and hence made it excessive? Or just the fact that they all knew what to do?

JRutledge

After I stopped laughing, I would probably just flag the kid that scored the TD. He started the act. 😉

Peace

JugglingReferee

tjones1 wrote
Not sure if you are familiar with this one or not. This is where a player "pulls the pin" on the football throws it in the air and then the remaining players fall down when the ball hits the ground.

A88 scores a touchdown.

The remaining 10 players join in on the celebration. A88 "pulls the pin." The remaining fall down.

Charging all 11 players with an USC or just A88?

CANADIAN RULING:

We'd just assess 1 OC penalty.

A stretch would be to assess 2: one for A88 and one for the other actions.

Welpe

Robert Goodman wrote
Is proximity of the players of the same team a decisive factor as to whether they've joined the celebration and hence made it excessive? Or just the fact that they all knew what to do?

The fact that it was choreographed and not a "spontaneous celebration".

bigjohn

as is taking a knee to pray and pointing a finger to the sky!

Welpe

bigjohn wrote
as is taking a knee to pray and pointing a finger to the sky!

If you say so. 🙄

bigjohn

Pointing to the sky and praying are just as choreographed as anything else!!!

Call them all or none!

Welpe

Yes of course, they are exactly the same. 🙄

bigjohn

Prep celebration rules questioned - washingtonpost.com

ajmc

bigjohn wrote
Pointing to the sky and praying are just as choreographed as anything else!!!

Call them all or none!

This is the type ridiculous logic that could ruin a great game and is currently trying to rip our nation apart.

Welpe

bigjohn wrote
Prep celebration rules questioned - washingtonpost.com

What's your point other than trying to create a 100+ post whizzing contest?

GoodwillRef

bigjohn wrote
as is taking a knee to pray and pointing a finger to the sky!

Are you going to flag this?

Not in my game...!

bigjohn

What if A88 just throws the grenade and no one goes down? Is that still a flag? Where do you draw the LINE!!!!

One finger in the air is fine, unless it is the wrong finger! 3 fingers and the kid is number 3 do you flag that? Chest bumps?

GoodwillRef

bigjohn wrote
What if A88 just throws the grenade and no one goes down? Is that still a flag? Where do you draw the LINE!!!!

If A88 just throw a grenade and nobody fell down I probably wouldn't know it was a hand grenade. Take a knee to pray real quick is not an unsporting act IMO! We all must dry our own lines in the sand.

bigjohn

The rule has nothing to do with sporting act, it is about drawing attention to oneself!

mbyron

GoodwillRef wrote
We all must dry our own lines in the sand.

That's my thought (well, I used "draw" in my thought, but still...). Sometimes, you just have to officiate. :shrug:

GoodwillRef

bigjohn wrote
The rule has nothing to do with sporting act, it is about drawing attention to oneself!

IMO this is getting pretty ticky-tack. We don't want to over-officiate.