Cost of stupidity? $12,154.

[Patler]

Davante Adams was fined $12,154 for his dunk over the crossbar after his TD.

I have to admit, that act of stupidity really bothered me. I saw it coming, and said, "Don't do it!" even before he left his feet. This was a big game. He is not a rookie, or a newbie to playing or scoring. With the 15 yard penalty, he could have been responsible for going a long way to negating the advantage obtained from his TD. I hope he bought Mason Crosby a nice dinner for the near perfect kickoff that followed, and the coverage team for holding the Lions to the 29 yard line.

[Fritz]

Davante Adams was fined $12,154 for his dunk over the crossbar after his TD.

I have to admit, that act of stupidity really bothered me. I saw it coming, and said, "Don't do it!" even before he left his feet. This was a big game. He is not a rookie, or a newbie to playing or scoring. With the 15 yard penalty, he could have been responsible for going a long way to negating the advantage obtained from his TD. I hope he bought Mason Crosby a nice dinner for the near perfect kickoff that followed, and the coverage team for holding the Lions to the 29 yard line.

I have mixed feelings on this. On the one hand, I agree completely. Those dumb moves can cost a team a game. I remember several years ago, the Packers had just stopped the Forty-Niners (I think) late in a playoff game on a key third down in Green Bay territory, when a Packer defensive lineman - I can't remember who - blatantly hit the runner or receiver who was five yards out of bounds. Unsportsmanlike conduct, first down, Niners score a touchdown, win playoff game.

On the other hand, while I don't like the self-aggrandizing showing off prevalent in the early 2000's, I did not know you couldn't even dunk the football in joy.

Tightrope to walk on this stuff. But yes,if you know it's not allowed, don't do it, idiot.

[texaspackerbacker]

I don't know exactly how much Davante makes a year but let's say it's about $2.5 million. That means the fine hits him about the same as a $243 fine hits some Good Normal American making $50,000 a year. Being approximately in that situation a few times, I'd say it's not financially fatal but it is damn annoying. Hell yeah, he shouldn't have done it - more because of the 15 yard penalty when we hadn't quite put away the game. I would stop short of calling it "self-aggrandizing" though. It was more like exuberance for the team, I think.

[woodbuck27]

He is a Professional Football Player and should give up any delusion of being a Pro Basketball Player.

There is no accounting for what over emotion can do against a man.

[Fritz]

I don't know exactly how much Davante makes a year but let's say it's about $2.5 million. That means the fine hits him about the same as a $243 fine hits some Good Normal American making $50,000 a year. Being approximately in that situation a few times, I'd say it's not financially fatal but it is damn annoying. Hell yeah, he shouldn't have done it - more because of the 15 yard penalty when we hadn't quite put away the game. I would stop short of calling it "self-aggrandizing" though. It was more like exuberance for the team, I think.

I agree, Tex. I meant the general self-aggrandizing stuff - pretending to pull a cell phone out and call your mom, preening and pointing to yourself. I should have made clear that I did not think Adams's move was in that category.

[KYPack]

The goal post dunk has been illegal since Jimmy Graham (then Saint) bent the crossbar in a game vs the Falcons in '14. That brought out the boys with the level and the ladders to fix things up. Then it mustered the rules geeks to render the move illegal that off-season. If it stops a game, yeah, make it a penalty and fine the fool that did it.

[Fritz]

You can see that I don't keep up on much of this NFL nonsense any more.

KY, the problem with your solution to the Graham incident is that it's simple and logical, and this is the NFL we're talking about here.

[pbmax]

Clearly Mike McCarthy has his team on too high an emotional level when they get ready to play the game.

[Maxie the Taxi]

Lombardi is rolling over in his grave reading this thread.

[Patler]

Clearly Mike McCarthy has his team on too high an emotional level when they get ready to play the game.

Might be true for the first half against the Lions. They had a lot of penalties that half, some that seemed to be lack of concentration, focus.

[Fritz]

Lombardi is a damn talented corpse.

[Maxie the Taxi]

[Patler]

On the other hand, while I don't like the self-aggrandizing showing off prevalent in the early 2000's, I did not know you couldn't even dunk the football in joy.

Sure, you didn't know, but a man who spends his days trying to score touchdowns in the NFL should know what types of things the rules allow and what they don't allow. To me, not knowing it would bring a 15 yard penalty is just as bad as doing it.

[woodbuck27]

Clearly Mike McCarthy has his team on too high an emotional level when they get ready to play the game.

For sure ... as MM is always Jacked !

[Maxie the Taxi]

^^^He looks meaner with the beard. lol