{"id":39693,"date":"2004-04-22T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-22T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/04\/22\/nfl-cracks-down-on-grandstanding\/"},"modified":"2004-04-22T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-22T07:00:00","slug":"nfl-cracks-down-on-grandstanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20040422-00\/?p=39693","title":{"rendered":"NFL cracks down on grandstanding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/\">National (US) Football League<\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/story\/7221738\">  adopted a 15-yard penalty for pre-planned celebrations<\/a>,  such as last year&#8217;s  &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2003\/football\/nfl\/12\/14\/horn.cellphone.ap\/\">phone call from the end zone<\/a>&#8221;  or 2002&#8217;s  &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/nfl\/news\/2002\/1018\/1447904.html\">autographed  football<\/a>&#8220;.  Apparently, the existing monetary fines weren&#8217;t having much  of an effect on players with multi-million-dollar contracts.  (Surprised?)  So now the league is going to hit them where it hurts: On the field.\n  I found it odd that the players weren&#8217;t penalized under existing rules  for having unauthorized equipment on the field.\n  So does this mean that teams will be penalized for keeping  champagne on ice in anticipation of winning a championship?  That certainly counts as a pre-planned celebration, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>  Perhaps teams which win a championship game now must &#8220;spontaneously&#8221;  send somebody out to the local liquor store to buy a few cases of bubbly  once the game ends.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National (US) Football League adopted a 15-yard penalty for pre-planned celebrations, such as last year&#8217;s &#8220;phone call from the end zone&#8221; or 2002&#8217;s &#8220;autographed football&#8220;. Apparently, the existing monetary fines weren&#8217;t having much of an effect on players with multi-million-dollar contracts. (Surprised?) So now the league is going to hit them where it hurts: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-39693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>The National (US) Football League adopted a 15-yard penalty for pre-planned celebrations, such as last year&#8217;s &#8220;phone call from the end zone&#8221; or 2002&#8217;s &#8220;autographed football&#8220;. Apparently, the existing monetary fines weren&#8217;t having much of an effect on players with multi-million-dollar contracts. (Surprised?) So now the league is going to hit them where it hurts: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}