It's easy these days to bash the NFL, because, well, it's the NFL. Market saturation and a bland, corporatized product has turned it, too often, into the football version of a visit to the dentist.
But here's one thing the Shield got right: It relaxed the restrictions on end-zone celebrations.
The No Fun League apparently got tired of being called the No Fun League, and so, like the soulless corporate entity it still is, it decided to mandate the return of fun. ("OK! You can have fun now!" one imagines Roger Goodell saying, rather sternly.) Thus the return of choreographed group celebrations in the end zone, and thus the return of the one thing that's actually still, well, fun about the NFL.
And so here, a few weeks back, were the Seattle Seahawks celebrating a score by playing an impromptu game of Duck, Duck, Goose in the end zone. And here was someone else, apparently in an homage to the baseball playoffs, celebrating with a pantomime of a pitcher pitching and a batter hitting a home run. And here, last night, were the Kansas City Chiefs celebrating a Travis Kelce TD by pantomiming a sack race.
Which Kelce won, of course, as the guy who scored the touchdown.
What gray, dour soul could possibly not love that?
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