Got him on my team. Back at draft time, some scribes called him iffy for reasons I don't remember. Maybe those were the SF guys who worried about his connection around then to Kaep. I got slightly worried last week (against Indy), but have relaxed about that.
Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Golden Tate waved bye-bye 25 yards before he crossed the finish line on a 80-yard touchdown reception Monday night, a move that the NFL says may have severe consequences in the future.
How severe? Dean Blandino, the NFL’s head of officiating, told the NFL Network that the league’s Competition Committee could consider changing the rule about taunting to one more closely lining up with the college rule.
The NFL rule treats a taunting foul as a dead-ball foul whereby the play counts and the penalty is enforced on the next play. The college rule would have nullified the touchdown, and would have been enforced at the spot of the foul.
I'm ambivalent about changing the NFL taunting rule. On the one hand it seems severe, but on the other, the college game employs it and no one is up in arms about it, and it really seems to control taunting.
What say you?
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Thu 7 Nov, 2013 12:42 pm
o-KAY then...
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Wife tasered after Bears-Packers bet
The Green Bay Packers' loss to the Chicago Bears was particularly painful for one Packers fan who was tasered
by her husband, who is a Bears fan, to settle a bet after Monday's game.
John Grant, 42, of Tinley Park, Ill., told police that he and his wife made the wager as they watched the game
at a bar in Mayville, Wis., but his wife told police that she didn't think her husband would follow through with it.
After the Bears beat the Packers 27-20, Grant and his wife, who police say had both been drinking, went outside
to an alley next to the bar to smoke cigarettes. Grant tasered his wife twice in the buttocks while she filmed it
with her cellphone camera.
Mayville police chief Christopher MacNeill said the woman was laughing during the first two taserings caught on
video, but when Grant tasered her a third time in the thigh, this time not on video, she apparently considered
that over the line. An argument ensued that led to the woman calling the police.
"You can't make this stuff up," MacNeill said. "It takes the rivalry to a whole new level."
MacNeill said at first the woman said Grant tasered her without her consent but after the officer viewed the
cellphone video and saw her laughing, he determined that he did not have enough evidence to arrest Grant
for battery. Grant was charged with felony possession of an electronic weapon.
Grant made his initial appearance in court Tuesday where they advised him of the charges, and he was given
another court date that has not been released.
MacNeill, who has been tasered before as part of police training, said: "I don't think I would volunteer to be
tasered if my team lost."