Starting next season refs will penalize NFL players who dunk over the goal post. This is an expansion of the league’s desire to eliminate personality and props from player’s touchdown celebrations.
NFL’s head of officiating, Dean Blandino explained the new interpretation of the NFL rule on the “Dan Patrick Show” on Tuesday.
There has been a rule in place against using the football as a prop in celebrations. Penalizing dunks is an enforcement of the existing rule, as opposed to a new rule on the books explained Blandino.
“We grandfathered in some, the Lambeau Leap and things like that. But dunking will come out,” said Blandino. “Using the ball as a prop or any object as a prop, whether that’s the goal post, the crossbar, that will come out and that will be a foul next season.”
