End zone celebrations/banning of fun bunch's celebrating.

skinpride1 · Post by **skinpride1** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 11:24 pm

I was just a kid back in the eighty's. I remember the awesome high five celebration by the posse in the end zone.I started to wonder why no one does this anymore in the NFL.I started doing some research on the posse,since I'm snowed in at home and I'm bored.After about a half hour of searching, I found the answer.I didn't think much of it either.One person was pretty much the reason of it's ending.I know who it is, but I was wondering if anyone else knows and there thoughts on it.I want you to think of all the endzone celebrating that goes on today,what is really to far and is a team high fives in the endzone really that bad?Did the nfl give into one mans :-({|=

(crying) because they were getting beat so badly back then.

Clinton Portis · Post by **Clinton Portis** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 11:52 pm

I remember Marcus Washington and Smoot did the Robot 2.0 and it was Coordinated Taunting.

Ridiculous.

ejay183 · Post by **ejay183** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 11:57 pm

Clinton Portis wrote:I remember Marcus Washington and Smoot did the Robot 2.0 and it was Coordinated Taunting.

Ridiculous.

actually that was the Ric Flair taunt, Washington said so in a postgame interview

Clinton Portis · Post by **Clinton Portis** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 12:23 am

Well looked like the robot to me

General Failure · Post by **General Failure** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 12:55 am

It depends on the feet. If there's stepping involved, it's the Nature Boy. If it's in one spot, it's the robot.

Clinton Portis · Post by **Clinton Portis** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 1:18 am

General Failure wrote:It depends on the feet. If there's stepping involved, it's the Nature Boy. If it's in one spot, it's the robot.

Sure.

General Failure · Post by **General Failure** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 1:24 am

At the basic level, of course. Obviously you have to take into account the freestyling of the player involved.

skinpride1 · Post by **skinpride1** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 2:23 pm

I think that this would be a good one for Welch.Do you know who the person was that cryed to the nfl and got the high five banned?

welch · Post by **welch** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 8:52 pm

I think that this would be a good one for Welch

I don;t remember. I just remember thinking that the Fun Bunch celebration was harmless, especially compared to spiking the ball after a TD ("Behave like you've scored before", was what the old coaches used to say), or the way that a defensive player would spread his legs over the QB after a sack. Then there was the equally bush-league "blowing smoke off the barrel of a pistol" that other people did after a sack.

If I had to guess about one single person, without doping research, I would guess it might have been Landry...the guy alway looked like he was sucking on a pickle. Long, drawn, sour face.

skinsfan1 · Post by **skinsfan1** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 9:32 pm

Any one got any clips?

skinpride1 · Post by **skinpride1** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 9:56 pm

Very good guess welch, everthing points to Tom Landry. The former coach of the dallas cowboys.He :-({|=

to the nfl about the posses high fives in the end zone.I would like to see some clips of the posses high fives,because I was only a kid back in those days.The good ole days.

welch · Post by **welch** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 4:43 pm

I don't have a clip handy, but I can describe it.

The Fun Bunch would circle in the endzone. The FB were the little receivers, the Smurfs, plus Rick Walker. So, that's Alvin Garrett, Virgil Seay, "Downtown" Charlie Brown, and Walker. Imagine the Redskin's Marching band playing hail to the Redskins.

The Fun Bunch would do a one-two-three and leap in the air, slapping five at the peak of their jump. Everybody laughing. No one, to make the point again, sneering, primping, posing, pointing toward the other team, etc.

All for the fun of it.

A similar celebration: remember the "Ickey Shuffle"? Ickey Woods was the main RB for the Bengals when they went to SB 23. A big guy, maybe smaller than Jerome Bettis, but probably about 245 pounds. After a TD, Ickey would take the ball to the Bengals sidelines, and do a silly discoordinated couple of dance steps, like a rhino dancing. Again, just for fun, with no posturing etc.

welch · Post by **welch** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 4:55 pm

I did a Google, and there it was, on Extremeskins: an interview with Doc Walker about the beginning and end of the Fun Bunch.

Of course, [former Dallas executive] Tex Schramm was on the Rules Committee at the time, and Don Shula, and eventually they had it outlawed ... which we thought was a tremendous tribute-that we could do something so well to irritate the hell out of them, and since they couldn’t stop it on the field, they had to stop it in litigation.

For several pictures, and a superb interview, see:

http://www.extremeskins.com/modules.php ... ocfunbunch

genuswine hoglover · Post by **genuswine hoglover** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 6:44 pm

I remember one of the Dallas Cowboy's defensive players trying to break it up in the endzone one year, mayber 1983. I think it was the "No, Danny No" game. It wouldn't surprise me if Tex Schram later complained to the NFL. Wasn't he a big shot on the rules committe or the competition committee.

herdskin · Post by **herdskin** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 8:06 pm

wasn't that the same game that Tony Dorsett threw the ball at Dexter Manley?

skinpride1 · Post by **skinpride1** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 9:07 pm

thanks Welch,I really enjoyed the interview from doc on extremeskins.I loved the pics of the fun bunch.I think it's one of the things that made the redskins so special back then.The high fives were a team thing and it wasn't all about one person,even though they started doing it for art monk.I love how the team talked about being close and supporting each other.The stuff I've read about that early skins team was how everyone got along and was real friends.The team was more than just a football team, they were a group that done things together.I wish that the skins of today could get that kind of tradition going.I think that the cowboys should have been the ones getting punished and not the skins,they were the ones trying to break it up in the end zone, but thats life.The high fives to me are all about pride.I love it,wish that I could see it today.