Redskins great Joe Theismann is coming down hard on Garner’s Brandon Banks for celebrating an apparent touchdown prematurely in the Redskins final preseason game Thursday night.
Theismann said, “Is it so hard, at this day and age, to run the ball into the end zone? I mean, I don’t think football has changed that much where you don’t want to score touchdowns. It’s so simple. It’s SO simple. I mean, you know, why don’t you run, you know what, if you run around and hand it to an official you don’t have to worry about something like this. It’s stupid. It’s stupid hot-dogging.”
One sports reporter takes exception to those comments. Chris Chase wrote, “Theismann’s not wrong, he’s just way too self-satisfied. We get it; Banks should run fully into the end zone before celebrating. He knows it, we know it, it’s fairly obvious to everybody. There’s no need to beat it into the ground.”
I tend to agree with Theismann – if we don’t vigorously denounce and look down upon such things, we can expect more of it. That’s what social sanctions are all about.