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Call this the Paul Pierce rule. I don't think organized crime is in sports, right Stern.

now will the officials throw the flag and then reiterate these signs for the stadium crowd when they call the penalty?

No place in the game for these types of things. Just play the game.

"now will the officials throw the flag and then reiterate these signs for the stadium crowd when they call the penalty?"

nah, would assume it will be handled behind the scenes. like a dress code fine. although suspensions for a repeated violation might not be out of the question. probably a slap on the wrist fine 1st offense, 1 game suspension 2nd time, etc.

Not everytime someone flashes a hand signal is it a gang sign.. in fact 95% of the time it's not. Most of the time it's just repping the town or neighborhood where they grew up and has nothing to do with a gang.

Caption should read, " I just craped my pants!"

Good move as these players can celebrate but quit doing the
gang bang signs as kids will think thats cool, and it hurts society.
3 game (minimum)suspension would kill the signs....

This is good, There's no need to glorify organized violence/crime in a game watched by millions of children.

Just don't go thinking that the North American Sign Language hand signal for 'I love you' is in any way satanic or gang related.

Happiness is a warm gun (Happiness bang, bang, shoot, shoot)
Happiness is a warm gun, mama (Happiness bang, bang, shoot, shoot)
When I hold you in my arms (Oo-oo oh yeah)
And I feel my finger on your trigger (Oo-oo oh yeah)
I know no one can do me no harm (Oo-oo oh yeah)
Because happiness is a warm gun, mama (Happiness bang, bang, shoot, shoot)
Happiness is a warm gun, yes it is (Happiness bang, bang, shoot, shoot)
Happiness is a warm, yes it is, gun (Happiness bang, bang, shoot, shoot)
Well, don't you know happiness is a warm gun, mama? (Happiness is a warm gun, yeah)

The NFL is turning into the THUG league.

Quit drafting/hiring players who hurt the NFL's pure image (HAHAHAH!!!). Is the middle finger salute a gang signal or does it merely mean that your team is #1?

Bill O' Nerous | 07/16/08, 08:23 AM

Quoting song lyrics is so impressive.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. This has been going on for far too long.

This will turn into a mess by the end of the day....mark my words.
I researched some "signs" I have seen; ok I asked my teenage boys, and some of them were pretty vulgar and quiet often derogatory to women. Now my kids and I don???t freak out over this stuff, I live in an environment where crude jokes are the norm so that is not my point. I will say that flashing some relatively obscure ???sign??? to a multi-million person audience for shakka (pun intended) effect is quite childish. I don???t know what labels to place on these players except maybe juvenile.....
Let???s see where this goes today.....should be interesting

interesting the ????? appearing from text brought in from MS Word 2007; put in quotes or apostrphes please

smh, now the comissioner wants to clean things up...Is it me or does Goodell looks like the highlander? "There can only be one"

I agree