Horns Down Gesture Will Now Draw a Flag

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Lawrence Wright said:
In fairness, refs have been relaxing the celebration penalty calls for several years now, a notable exception being if you mimic a dog taking a piss on a fire hydrant after scoring a late TD in the Egg Bowl.
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Yes, they've been relaxing them, which is a good thing. But now the Big XII officials are going to call out a specific celebration because the Horns' feelings are hurt.
 
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bamawriter said:
Yes, they've been relaxing them, which is a good thing. But now the Big XII officials are going to call out a specific celebration because the Horns' feelings are hurt.
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Meh, players will just wait until they get back to the bench and still do it. The backlash will have UT opponent’s fans doing it non-stop.

This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but I get where you’re coming from. The Big XII wouldn’t care if players trolled Iowa State or Kansas on the field.
 
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They're gonna a substitute gesture. So, is there a gesture for tits up?
 
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WTF??????
The wussafication of our world.
Is this a flag as well???

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So if you keep it somewhat horizontal it's not a penalty?

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I feel like I recall one of our players getting a penalty for doing the gator chomp. I could be mistaken?

Edit: Yep, Jon Kelly. It’s literally a vertical hand clap. You can’t flag someone for clapping. If you don’t want the other team to celebrate then keep them out of the end zone. Everything is offensive nowadays. I can’t even say “sir” or “ma’am” without someone thinking it’s offensive.

Tennessee penalized for gator chomp because the NCAA are cops

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VolPack22 said:
I feel like I recall one of our players getting a penalty for doing the gator chomp. I could be mistaken?

Edit: Yep, Jon Kelly. It’s literally a vertical hand clap. You can’t flag someone for clapping. If you don’t want the other team to celebrate then keep them out of the end zone. Everything is offensive nowadays. I can’t even say “sir” or “ma’am” without someone thinking it’s offensive.

Tennessee penalized for gator chomp because the NCAA are cops

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That was the beginning of the end...
 
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It’s texass football, where the fans don’t show up until the late 1st quarter and leave early third quarter when their team is losing to Iowa State or some other Big Dumpster Fire also-ran.

Geez, I wonder why A&M left that crap conference.
 
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So if Tennessee adopts this as our "official" school gesture,

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Anytime an opposing player makes it such as on a first down, fumble recovery, etc., it's a 15 yard penalty?
 
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Zebras should focus on just getting game calls right instead of BS like this. From targeting to holding, they've shown themselves to be incompetent boobs. Just do your damned jobs and forget this frivolous crap.
 
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I don't think the issue is throwing a flag for the Horns Down gesture. As pointed out above doing a mock Gator Chomp, or any sort of taunting gesture to an opponent, brings out a flag.

The issue is Texas specifically calling attention to and complaining about it over the years, and it becoming such a big deal that the Big 12 officiating coordinator gets specifically asked about it and says "Yes, if you do Horns Down that will be a foul." I don't recall Florida, or any other school, bringing specific attention to taunting gestures they have received from opponents and saying "Hey Mr. SEC Director of Officials, make sure you throw a flag for that."
 
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05_never_again said:
I don't think the issue is throwing a flag for the Horns Down gesture. As pointed out above doing a mock Gator Chomp, or any sort of taunting gesture to an opponent, brings out a flag.

The issue is Texas specifically calling attention to and complaining about it over the years, and it becoming such a big deal that the Big 12 officiating coordinator gets specifically asked about it and says "Yes, if you do Horns Down that will be a foul." I don't recall Florida, or any other school, bringing specific attention to taunting gestures they have received from opponents and saying "Hey Mr. SEC Director of Officials, make sure you throw a flag for that."
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Historically the unauthorized Gator chomp by opponents comes with a curse. We want our opponents to do it on the field, whether a flag is thrown or not, because in many cases it comes back to bite them in the ass.

It all started with Sebastian Janikowski chomping UF’s bench in 1997 when FSU was #1 and headed towards the national title game. We wound up winning by a FG in what was easily the greatest game ever played in The Swamp.

See also several Ohio State players after Tedd Ginn made a house call on the opening kickoff in 2007. We went on to crush the Bucknuts for our second national title.

Michigan’s Chase Winovich did it in the Peach Bowl a few years ago just before we blew the game open.

It’s bad juju for our opponents.
 
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Lawrence Wright said:
Historically the unauthorized Gator chomp by opponents comes with a curse. We want our opponents to do it on the field, whether a flag is thrown or not, because in many cases it comes back to bite them in the ass.

It all started with Sebastian Janikowski chomping UF’s bench in 1997 when FSU was #1 and headed towards the national title game. We wound up winning by a FG in what was easily the greatest game ever played in The Swamp.

See also several Ohio State players after Tedd Ginn made a house call on the opening kickoff in 2007. We went on to crush the Bucknuts for our second national title.

Michigan’s Chase Winovich did it in the Peach Bowl a few years ago just before we blew the game open.

It’s bad juju for our opponents.
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I believe Erik Ainge did it after throwing a TD pass in the 2006 game to take the lead. Thought it was terrible juju then and still do now.

I'm all for doing it after the game, after you've won (like Grant/Admiral did in basketball), but doing it during a game, especially doing it during a competitive game, is just asking for humiliation.
 
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05_never_again said:
I believe Erik Ainge did it after throwing a TD pass in the 2006 game to take the lead. Thought it was terrible juju then and still do now.

I'm all for doing it after the game, after you've won (like Grant/Admiral did in basketball), but doing it during a game, especially doing it during a competitive game, is just asking for humiliation.
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Yep, forgot about that one.
 
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Lawrence Wright said:
Historically the unauthorized Gator chomp by opponents comes with a curse. We want our opponents to do it on the field, whether a flag is thrown or not, because in many cases it comes back to bite them in the ass.

It all started with Sebastian Janikowski chomping UF’s bench in 1997 when FSU was #1 and headed towards the national title game. We wound up winning by a FG in what was easily the greatest game ever played in The Swamp.

See also several Ohio State players after Tedd Ginn made a house call on the opening kickoff in 2007. We went on to crush the Bucknuts for our second national title.

Michigan’s Chase Winovich did it in the Peach Bowl a few years ago just before we blew the game open.

It’s bad juju for our opponents.
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Greatest game ever played in the swamp and not even close:

December 1, 2001 Gainesville, Florida #5 Tennessee34 #2 Florida32
 
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