It appears to be like like CeeDee Lamb goes to want a brand new celebration. The NFL despatched out a full 2025 guidelines report to every crew this week and that report included one main replace within the part about what constitutes an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty.
The NFL has been attempting to take violent celebrations out of the sport over the previous few years, which is a giant cause why nobody is allowed to have fun a giant play or a landing with a throat slash anymore. This 12 months, the league additionally added the ‘nostril wipe’ to the listing of banned celebrations.
This is a take a look at Rule 12, Part 3, Article 1(d) from the principles report (by way of Benjamin Solak):
“Any violent gesture, which shall embody however not be restricted to a throat slash, simulating firing or brandishing a gun, or utilizing the ‘nostril wipe’ gesture, or an act that’s sexually suggestive or offensive.”
When you’re questioning that the nostril wipe celebration appears to be like like, former Cowboys star Dez Bryant was sort sufficient to share a GIF of Lamb doing it in a sport.
When you’re questioning why that celebration is taken into account a ‘violent gesture,’ it largely has to do with the truth that it is a signal that is related to gangs, according to Urban Dictionary. That is proper, we broke out the City Dictionary.
The signal is mostly used to “scare off undesirable firm or to maintain sight of somebody. It would not all the time essentially imply homicide. Normally somebody is being robbed or focused for some act of violence.”
Lamb caught wind of the rule change on Wednesday night time and based mostly on his response, it sounds just like the Cowboys Professional Bowl receiver just isn’t thrilled with the choice.
The excellent news for Lamb is that he seems to have a brand new celebration in thoughts to take the place of his nostril wipe.
