This is a job I am paid to do. The mailman delivers the post. Do you ever see him celebrating? - Mario Balotelli
Best celebration ever as told by Sam Huff. He spent the game tackling and berating Jim Brown with screams of "You Stink!" for most of the game. Brown take a run at Huff and creams him, then walks into the end zone with the game winner. He just turns to Huff and asks " how do I smell from here?"
Reminds me of a story from Notre Dame - somebody asked Jerome Heavens why he just handed the ball back to the referee. He said - This Is Notre Dame - we score all the time. The worm was a little much for me. Sydney Le Roux's priceless.
If other teams don't like us celebrating our goals - they should try harder to prevent us from scoring.
All I saw was tired smiles after the last score today. Rapinoe didn't even jump on Morgan. Just gave her a pat. Lesson for New Zealand on how to deal with celebrations.
Is US celebrating arrogant and over the top? Yes and no right? They have not won the gold, but they at least have a silver.
I envision the greatest goal celebration ever thusly: - X bursts through box top box - hurdles a challenge - rounds the sprawled keeper - as he lands, gets DOGSO fouled from behind, breaking or dislocating his ankle - ball pops loose, defender plows into his own keeper - X hops on one foot to 8m post - hops off his foot and helicopters into the empty net - with his other foot clearly dislocated and a red stain seeping into his sock - he does a one-foot hopping airplane through the box, doing slow slalom S-turns between the 2 defenders and gk (toward the endzone on the other side, where the stretcher is already waiting for him) - defenders and goalkeeper just watch him sullenly, can't even cry about their own minor injuries - and X is out 6-8 months for the bone(s) to knit - doing the airplane from his wheelchair I would consider that to be not arrogant at all
As an American, I'm used to it. America is always going to be subject to double standards, jealousy and criticism, but when it is just silly like this it is pretty easy to dismiss. America does something that is essentially commonplace, as illustrated by various examples mentioned or supported by video in this thread, yet America is singled out as being wrongdoers. Hard to take that seriously.
Not really and if the other teams don't like it, they will just kick them as retaliation if they are angry. So not a big deal really.
As far as Sayers goes, this is factually incorrect. Celebrations in the NFL basically surfaced in the seventies-- they were very rare before then. Occasionally you would see a spike or something, but the standard was to turn and hand the ball to the ref. But that has to do with tackle football and has next to nothing to do with soccer.