Go ahead, admit it.
Forget for a minute if Michael Vick played for another team.
What about DeSean Jackson? This morning he's being toasted for a huge game against the Cowboys, rolling for more than 200 yards, 91 on one play.
But that' snot what people will be talking about this morning. Instead, D-Jax will have tongues wagging because of the way he ended that 91-yard romp.
After outrunning the Cowboy defenders, even though he certainly did not appear to be running at full speed, Jackson of course decided to put an exclamation point on his thrilling play.
He stopped at the 1-inch line, turned around and fell backward into the end zone. Nice, huh?
He picked up a penalty that was tacked onto the ensuing kickoff that didn't turn out to have any effect on the game.
If Jackson played on another team, we'd hate his guts. But he's wearing green and silver, so we reel in his antics.
The problem is that this kind of behavior is infectious. Witness what Jorrick Calvin did on a kickoff, where he was dancing around in the end zone on the pretense of killing off time on the clock, apparently unaware that the clock does not start until he comes out of the end zone.
I will never understand the need by NFL players to do this kind of nonsense. It has to do with making sure they appear on SportsCenter that night.
I always fall back on what an old coach once said in describing what you should do if you happen to be lucky enough to get into the end zone.
Act like you've been there before.
Listening, DeSean?
Forget for a minute if Michael Vick played for another team.
What about DeSean Jackson? This morning he's being toasted for a huge game against the Cowboys, rolling for more than 200 yards, 91 on one play.
But that' snot what people will be talking about this morning. Instead, D-Jax will have tongues wagging because of the way he ended that 91-yard romp.
After outrunning the Cowboy defenders, even though he certainly did not appear to be running at full speed, Jackson of course decided to put an exclamation point on his thrilling play.
He stopped at the 1-inch line, turned around and fell backward into the end zone. Nice, huh?
He picked up a penalty that was tacked onto the ensuing kickoff that didn't turn out to have any effect on the game.
If Jackson played on another team, we'd hate his guts. But he's wearing green and silver, so we reel in his antics.
The problem is that this kind of behavior is infectious. Witness what Jorrick Calvin did on a kickoff, where he was dancing around in the end zone on the pretense of killing off time on the clock, apparently unaware that the clock does not start until he comes out of the end zone.
I will never understand the need by NFL players to do this kind of nonsense. It has to do with making sure they appear on SportsCenter that night.
I always fall back on what an old coach once said in describing what you should do if you happen to be lucky enough to get into the end zone.
Act like you've been there before.
Listening, DeSean?
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