I’m growing up. I’m not sure how I feel about this. Here’s the progression of how I digested the information of the NFL banning the touchdown celebration of slam dunking the goal posts.

– This rule is stupid! The NFL is getting on my nerves. They really are the No Fun League.

– What’s the point of banning this celebration? I really don’t understand.

– Oh, Jimmy Graham did break a goalpost last year and it caused a delay. Ok, I get it. If the NFL doesn’t want the problem, then why not just penalize the team if a player breaks the goal post? Maybe, a fifteen yard penalty or hell that team just won’t get to try for an extra point — that’ll really get folks attention.

– I continued to stew in anger towards the No Fun League and then the day while listening to Colin Cowhered, Uncle Colin enlightened me…..

– He stated on his radio show that the NFL didn’t make up this rule to take the fun out of the league. They made the rule to protect the league. Sure you could use my idea and not allow the team to kick an extra point of their player breaks the goal posts. Perfect, right? Hell, throw in a 15 yard penalty too. The world is a better place and the fun is back in the NFL. No….because what if….what if….that broken goal post falls. It’s most likely going to fall forward into the field of play, but what if falls sideways or even backwards? It’s going to possibly fall on fans. Imagine the lawsuits that the player, his team and the NFL are going to face.

So let me think like an owner and not a player for a second. Sure, the dunk celebrations look cool. They’re funny when Veron Davis gets hung on the crossbar. But when Jimmy Graham goes early 90s Shaquille O’Neal and breaks one of those bad boys that’s anywhere from 400 – 1800 pounds falling on fans.

Yeah…let’s ban the slam dunk celebration. Players are only going to get bigger and stronger and sooner or later the inevitable of the goalpost falling into the fans is going to happen.