Most annoying ritual in sports
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How about players not wearing their mouth piece. Holy crap, enforce the rule or get rid of it. Same with knee pads.
I like the playing of the national anthem, not so sure everyone sees it as faux patriotism, but I know that many certainly do.
I agree that it is not AT ALL necessary to play before any sporting event other than international competitions, but it has become as ingrained in the "spectacle" of sports as booing a bad call.
On a side note, even as an alumnus, I think we could ditch the band playing "The Bells of Iowa State" during pregame.
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It’s a lot cuter when your 5 year old flips off the Hawkeyes. Maybe just work on that?
But if you don’t have a small child, pay for your food first and make sure to select no tip on the POS machine. Then you can flip them off as you walk away.
There's an absolutely hilarious gif somewhere of the Buddy Hield era OU team trying to do a floorslap in unison, except Ryan Spangler is seconds behind the other 4
It's hilarious when the Hawks do it because you know there is no defense to back it up. It comes across more as chimps hitting the floor in rage.
They are used as training flight time for pilots. So it was money being spent anyway. It's not really extra money paid by the sporting venue or even the tax payers unless it is one of the special event teams.
This. If they enforced it at the NFL/D1 level we wouldn't be fighting it in HS.
Reminds me of the Ken Trickey era in ISU basketball when we were awful. Herkle Ivy would hit a shot from way outside and then run back with his hand pointing #1 high above his head....and we'd be down by 30.
The only one that comes to mind is when a defender (NFL) intercepts a pass and then the entire defense runs to the end zone. Like, you've intercepted a pass before, get off the ******* field you look ridiculous.
I didn't think there was a mouth guard rule in the NFL.
The knee pads thing has gotten really bad though. Either enforce it or eliminate the rule.
This is one of my "old man yells at cloud" moments...
The celebrating in all sports is so over the top. People make a basic play and its cause for celebration dances. Get back to the huddle and do your job. Or situations where the team screws up, but a "big" thing happens at the end. Defense gives up a 20 yd run, but the LB made a HUGE hit to make the tackle. Everyone celebrate!
For the record, I am fine with staring at home runs, TD dances, celebrations after a big play on defense, etc. It's the celebrating after doing the basic things that drive me crazy.
Maybe we should demand pregame playing of all possible allegiance songs--nation, state, city, university, and so on. If we're gonna indoctrinate, let's go all in.
14,567 step handshakes in softball. Then watching a ground ball go right between the 2nd baseman’s legs. Maybe should’ve worked on that instead of the handshake.
It was largely a SWC tradition, which is why the former SWC schools seem to be the ones that do it.
Texas Primer: Football Hand Signals
From “Hook ‘em, Horns” to “Peck ‘em, Owls,” the Southwest Conference is football’s most hospitable habitat for hand jive.
