roygbell said:
HoustonAg2106 said:
If you read the article it sounds like this is only a penalty if your doing it in the face of another player and taunting them.
Finally, someone read the damn article. Have been watching this thread since the start. Someone suggested some OU fans ought to chime in and explain why we let it happen. I started to but then thought it would be more fun watching you aggies thrashing around and not having a clue as to what you were talking about.
You really have to understand how this mess all started on he hook'em sign penalty. On two separate plays in different times of the WVU game at Texas two players WVU players went out of their way to flash the upside down horns sign right in the face of the Texas players. That is how it all started.
It was a "taunting" foul by the officials. And, that is the explanation of the conference officials at this year's media days. It will be flagged when it is a done in an unsportsmanlike manner as in throwing it down in the face of the opposing team.
It isn't a big deal ... and finally someone actually read what the story and explained it correctly.
If you read the guidance from the officials they say that the only way you can guarantee not getting a flag is if you do it when you get back to your own bench. I would also add that you have likely never played football if you consider this the height of taunting. Again, we all need to be reminded by none other than Emanuel Acho a former Longhorn.
"If you can't throw the Horns Down, what can you do?" he said. "It's the most polite disrespect that you can do in the game of football. It's not a kick in the nuts."
There is an insane amount of taunting going on out there that does not include a hand gesture that nobody cares about because the F-Bombs and the comments about the opponents mother does not make it into the broadcast. Why do we have to single out a harmless hand gesture as the most egregious example? It is the rivalry that makes these games significant. Let's not try to sanitize it to the point where nobody is offended and eventually nobody cares.