Sunday’s win at the Green Bay Packers,<\/a> Dowdle was penalised for unsportsmanlike conduct.<\/p>\nThat resulted in a 15-yard penalty, pushing back the extra-point attempt, and although the kick was missed, the Panthers clinched a 16-13 win with a field goal as time expired.<\/p>\n
According to ESPN, 27-year-old Dowdle has also been fined $14,491 (\u00a311,095).<\/p>\n
The call against Dowdle disproved a supposed NFL rule demonstrated in a Key & Peele comedy sketch in 2013.<\/p>\n
The NFL’s list of prohibited acts includes taunting, any violent gesture such as simulating a gun and “prolonged or excessive celebrations or demonstrations by an individual player or multiple players”.<\/p>\n
In the Key & Peele sketch an American football referee, played by Jordan Peele, would throw the penalty flag for a ‘three-pump’ celebration by Keegan-Michael Key’s character Hingle McCringleberry, but two pumps was deemed acceptable.<\/p>\n
Key responded on social media, saying: “Rico! Man, you got robbed – you only did two pumps. I’m sorry, man. Now we’re gonna have to write a new sketch.”<\/p>\n
Carolina coach Dave Canales said on Sunday: “We’ve got to make sure that we understand the rules. I might have to call up Keegan-Michael Key to get clarification on that part of it.<\/p>\n
“But from what I understand, any kind of movement that way, any weapons, or all that stuff is going to get flagged. We’ve got to be smarter about that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carolina Panthers running back Rico Dowdle has been fined for an “excessive celebration” featuring two pelvic thrusts. After…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-265168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}