Rodgers and his "move"

[The Leaper]

I love the belt...harkens back to a time when pro wrestling wasn't COMPLETELY over the top yet and had loads of star power...Saturday Night Main Event anyone?

Football is ENTERTAINMENT. This is a sport where guys are trying to take each other's head off. Emotion rules, so trying to bottle it up seems counterproductive to me.

[Patler]

I love the belt...harkens back to a time when pro wrestling wasn't COMPLETELY over the top yet and had loads of star power...Saturday Night Main Event anyone?

Football is ENTERTAINMENT. This is a sport where guys are trying to take each other's head off. Emotion rules, so trying to bottle it up seems counterproductive to me.

That's my point. If it's GENUINE, I have no problem with it. But most are just scripted performances that they do on cue from themselves. It's not emotion, it's acting.

[swede]

I love the belt...harkens back to a time when pro wrestling wasn't COMPLETELY over the top yet and had loads of star power...Saturday Night Main Event anyone?

Football is ENTERTAINMENT. This is a sport where guys are trying to take each other's head off. Emotion rules, so trying to bottle it up seems counterproductive to me.

I grew up trying to figure out how the hell Verne Gagne could be Champion of the World with a physique like my dad's.

[CaptainKickass]

back to a time when pro wrestling wasn't COMPLETELY over the top yet and had loads of star power...Saturday Night Main Event anyone?

You gotta go back even further - to the really old school wrestling to get away from "Completely Over The Top". Saturday Night's Main Event aired from 1985 to 1992.

I recall watching Verne Gagne's All Star Wrestling on channel 18 (UHF) out of Milwaukee before "WWF" was even a mutter.

An amateur and professional wrestling legend, Verne Gagne's career covers the entire period of wrestling from the "real" to "fake" to "entertainment" eras. Gagne won two NCAA wrestling championships while at the University of Minnesota, and was a member of the 1948 Olympic Wrestling team for the United States. He soon turned pro and became champion of the new American Wrestling Association (AWA). He was a nine-time heavyweight champion in the AWA, winning his first title in 1960, and retiring as champion in 1981.

In fact Saturday Night's Main Event was the real catalyst for what became the "Over The Top" professional wrestling we know today.

At the time of the original airing it was a rare example of professional wrestling being broadcast on an over-the-air commercial television network after the 1950s. It coincided with and contributed to the apogee of the "second golden age" of professional wrestling in the United States. In a time when weekly programming consisited primarily of established stars dominating enhancement talent, Saturday Night's Main Event was made up entirely of star vs. star bouts.

[CaptainKickass]

Forgot to include my point above.

I stopped watching "Wrestling" when it became hokey/or I realized it was hokey.

I don't want the NFL to become a shell of itself for the greedy sake of "entertainment".

[Gunakor]

But most are just scripted performances that they do on cue from themselves. It's not emotion, it's acting.

If football is entertainment, I have no problem with the players putting on a show. I don't like every scripted celebration I see, but I like the fact that the players can do them. Regardless of the particular celebration or whether I like it or not, some fan somewhere is gonna dig it. Keep celebrating guys. It's good for showbusiness.

[Pugger]

Well, those of you who have been here for a while will know what I think. I don't like it, but I don't like any of the scripted moves of any player. Not Barnett's, not Mathews' not Jenkins'. While I find it less objectionable than most, I don't even like Drivers shimmy and first down signals. They are so intent on celebrating that you get a dummy like Finley last night celebrating and indicating "First Down!" when he's two yards short.

I was a Barry Sanders fan. Handing the ball to the official is the epitome of elegance and sophistication!

I'm sort of indifferent about Woodson's "handshake".

I'm kind of with you, but we are dinosaurs. The game has moved on. (If you really want to know how I feel, I think it's a generational "look at me" thing), Now, I just hope they keep taunting out of the game. As far as celebrations go, it's okay.

The handshake is one of the few 'celebrations' that I find have any class these days. We could have used a few more of those Monday night...

[Fritz]

I want to see McCarthy throw a folding chair onto the field, Aaron Rodgers run out from the tunnel with Hank Baskett's wife on his arm, and Vince McMahon as the ref.

[mraynrand]

I want to see McCarthy throw a folding chair onto the field, Aaron Rodgers run out from the tunnel with Hank Baskett's wife on his arm, and Vince McMahon as the ref.

How about Deanna Favre V Jessica McCarthy, half-time, at the Metrodome!

[MOBB DEEP]

mess is gay to me

but i can admit if brett or vick da great did it i would make excuses for it in my mind

thunder dan is correct imo

[MJZiggy]

Celebrate a touchdown, celebrate an INT or forced fumble any way the refs let you get away with. For anything else, predetermined celebrations are just too "TOish" for me.

He just scored on NFL replay so I saw the replay in real time. It's just so quick--I don't think it's a big deal. And he does it after a TD.