Not a FED rule...yet

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Robert Goodman

That's what an audience looks at, but it's no better or worse than the taunting that goes on at all other positions (and off the field) all game long. So I suspect NCAA there of making rules for audiences rather than players.

The NCAA or any rules organization can create whatever rule they want to for whatever reason they choose to. Taunting at that level is a major problem in the NCAA's eyes and they want it to stop. This has led to other problems and why we have all kinds of rules for pre-game activities and players coming off the bench is because things that were not rules were once allowed and it leads to problems. If this will make it stop when you start taking away obvious scores away from teams and costing games. Now in my experience this is not a problem at the HS level because I cannot recall too many times where a player does anything before they get across the goal line.

Peace