{"id":252017,"date":"2025-10-26T04:53:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T04:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/252017\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T04:53:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T04:53:06","slug":"jaxon-smith-njigbas-goalpost-dunk-draws-a-14491-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/252017\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaxon Smith-Njigba’s goalpost dunk draws a $14,491 fine"},"content":{"rendered":"

The goalpost can be used as a prop. As long as the goalpost is not touched.<\/p>\n

Seahawks receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba dunked the football over the crossbar after scoring a touchdown on Monday night against the Texans. Because he touched the bar, he was flagged \u2014 and he was fined.<\/p>\n

The price tag: $14,491.<\/p>\n

Although the No Fun League decided several years ago to become the Some Fun League when it comes to celebrations, the goalpost is a no-no \u2014 mainly because Saints tight end Jimmy Graham once moved the apparatus<\/a> when dunking the ball.<\/p>\n

In the future, JSN should consider a finger roll. If his fingers hit the yellow bar, the NFL will be dipping its fingers into his pockets. Again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The goalpost can be used as a prop. As long as the goalpost is not touched. Seahawks receiver…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-252017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}