A Bad Celebration

Tell me it ain’t so Jason David.  You didn’t do that dance. Much has been maligned by big time football players celebrating on big plays. So much so that excessive celebrating can draw a penalty on the resuming play. To this rule I often looked at with chagrin. The league needs a little color to it and celebrating does away with the blase’. But the dance Jason David performed this Sunday in New Orleans of all places has got to go.  Let’s start the funeral procession now.  I’m not a player or a coach of football in any capacity. Just an ex-college sports producer and a devoted fan who likes to watch a good football game.  I was quietly minding my own business enjoying a division rivalry between my hometowns Atlanta Falcons against my fantasy football playing Reggie Bush of the New Orleans Saints, when I was shocked into bad football interrupted. On the Atlanta Falcons opening drive Jason David a corner back for the New Orleans Saints intercepted a pass thrown by falcon quarterback Matt Ryan. After he was downed by tackle, he was all but footloose, as he resulted to doing that dance, in celebration of his interception.  Now I understand why he was doing the dance. Mr. David is one of those cornerbacks that get picked apart on Sunday, like two tithes and an offering in church. It’s all about the choices you make and Jason David made the wrong one. It was too cute and too corny and unfortunately too well done. I mean next time how about a good ol fashion New Orleans’ line dance, that would be good for local color, or a TO praise to the almighty in the middle of the field, that would have sufficed. There are a hundred roads you could have chosen. But please do away with that dance, just like the skinny neon tie it needs to stay buried away and never brought back. I’m hesitant to think what he dons after the game, maybe pleated slacks and pointy toe Stacy Adams. No shags allowed Mr. David stick to shagging the occasional football and leave the celebrations on ice.