NFL End zone Celebrations
             Billy "White Shoes" Johnson was the first NFL football player to ever excessively celebrate a touchdown, introducing the "Funky Chicken". Often titled the "No Fun League", the NFL has been very strict about end zone celebrations, and wants all of the players to stop excessively celebrating. It seems as though the only people who dislike the celebrations are the owners, coaches, and the commissioner (Paul Tagliabue), because the fans love it! The fans are the "Middle Man" connection to the NFL's profits in the sense that the fans represent so much of the industry's income such as apparel, tickets, memorabilia, etc. NFL touchdown celebrations should be encouraged rather than discouraged because the NFL is an entertainment industry. With a decrease in fans, football would become a lot more like baseball, selling out of less and less games every year.
             There are some people who do not approve of the excessive celebrations and the "talk" that players are using more and more now a days. In all reality, if you take out a lot of the celebrations and FUN, then the spectators will slowly but surely lose interest. Which is the case with the MLB (Major League Baseball). According to SportsIllustrated.com, between the 2001-2002 season, attendance dropped 6 percent in the MLB. As a result, most teams are lowering ticket prices, which in the end, decreases income for the industry ("Teams" 2). Therefore, if you take away the celebrations and a lot of the fun, football will lose spectators, becoming more like baseball. What the NFL economy has to realize is that "Celebrations" and "Showing-off" is what is selling in today's economy, and the NFL's main concern should be to establish a very productive business.
             An example of "Excessively Celebrating" occured during week 15 of the 2003
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