Sportsmanship
Sportsmanship
Many adults and children have seen it. The player who chargers the mound after they get hit with a pitch, the touchdown celebration after a touchdown catch, or the basketball coach who doesn’t like the call the referee made and goes in a yelling outburst. Thanksgiving is known for many things including eating food, seeing your family, and then finally watching a few games of football. Every year the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys play on this date special day. Year after year regardless of who wins or loses, they always show good sportsmanship especially because they know that a crowd who usually doesn’t watch football every week is watching that day, including little children. This year, there were two cases where there were players who showed real bad sportsmanship. Detroit Lions defensive tackle, Ndamukong Suh, could take full responsibility for one. The 2010 Defensive Rookie of the Year was penalized and ejected from the Thanksgiving Day loss to the Packers for stomping on the arm of guard Evan Dietrich-Smith. This is a prime example of what “not to do”, especially when there are fans that idolize this game. National Football League (NFL) committees released a statement saying that, “The on-field conduct exhibited by Ndamukong Suh that led to his ejection from yesterday’s game was unacceptable and failed to meet the level of sportsmanship we expect from our player”. The actions of Suh were followed by another case where bad sportsmanship was shown, this time by a much less dangerous act. After catching a touchdown, Buffalo Bills wide receiver Steve Johnson took a shot at New York Jets wide receiver Plaxico Burress. After catching the touchdown, Johnson pantomimed shooting himself in the leg, clearly mimicking Plaxico Burress, who shot himself in the leg at a nightclub and was later put in jail for carrying a gun.
Although both of these actions are considered to be unsportsmanlike, they are on different levels. In professional
Many adults and children have seen it. The player who chargers the mound after they get hit with a pitch, the touchdown celebration after a touchdown catch, or the basketball coach who doesn’t like the call the referee made and goes in a yelling outburst. Thanksgiving is known for many things including eating food, seeing your family, and then finally watching a few games of football. Every year the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys play on this date special day. Year after year regardless of who wins or loses, they always show good sportsmanship especially because they know that a crowd who usually doesn’t watch football every week is watching that day, including little children. This year, there were two cases where there were players who showed real bad sportsmanship. Detroit Lions defensive tackle, Ndamukong Suh, could take full responsibility for one. The 2010 Defensive Rookie of the Year was penalized and ejected from the Thanksgiving Day loss to the Packers for stomping on the arm of guard Evan Dietrich-Smith. This is a prime example of what “not to do”, especially when there are fans that idolize this game. National Football League (NFL) committees released a statement saying that, “The on-field conduct exhibited by Ndamukong Suh that led to his ejection from yesterday’s game was unacceptable and failed to meet the level of sportsmanship we expect from our player”. The actions of Suh were followed by another case where bad sportsmanship was shown, this time by a much less dangerous act. After catching a touchdown, Buffalo Bills wide receiver Steve Johnson took a shot at New York Jets wide receiver Plaxico Burress. After catching the touchdown, Johnson pantomimed shooting himself in the leg, clearly mimicking Plaxico Burress, who shot himself in the leg at a nightclub and was later put in jail for carrying a gun.
Although both of these actions are considered to be unsportsmanlike, they are on different levels. In professional