Bengals' Joe Burrow has the perfection reaction to Zay Flowers' taunting penalty
It's a rare occurrence when Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow tweets (they're still tweets to me. I don't care what the website is called now.) It takes something notable for him to open the app nowadays.Baltimore Ravens rookie wide receiver Zay Flowers getting called for a taunting penalty in the AFC Championship game did just […]
It's a rare occurrence when Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow tweets (they're still tweets to me. I don't care what the website is called now.) It takes something notable for him to open the app nowadays.
Baltimore Ravens rookie wide receiver Zay Flowers getting called for a taunting penalty in the AFC Championship game did just that.
The flag came after Flowers hauled in a deep pass from Lamar Jackson late in the third quarter. Baltimore's offense had been suffocated by the Kansas City Chiefs for most of the game leading up to this play, and Flowers let his emotions free after finishing the 54-yard play.
By letter of the questionable law, Flowers' actions fit the qualifications of a taunting flag, which is a 15-yard penalty from the end of the play.
Burrow—and the majority of football fans for that matter—isn't debating the specifics of the rules in place. He's proclaiming the rules shouldn't exist in the first place.
Taunting restrictions are in place for the sake of promoting good sportsmanship, but these moments are impossible to regulate. Flowers just made a huge play for his team and did something that in no way harmed his opponent. What's worth penalizing about that?
Divisional rivalry be damned, Burrow speaks for football fans everywhere here.
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