Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 23, 2021
NFL’s unfair, unrealistic, unnecessary taunting penalties befuddle Bears
Gipson drew a 15-yard penalty for taunting after the Bears got a stop on third-and-five against the Bengals in Week 2.Amid everything the Bears are navigating as they change quarterbacks, reshuffle the defense and prepare for a road game against one of the NFL’s better teams, they’ve been devoting a portion of their week toward something ridiculous.
In a sport that asks players to break their bodies for every momentous yard, they can lose 15 of them just for clapping. The NFL’s new taunting policy demands that in the most vicious sport, players walk away from the play as though they’re in a library, and the Bears were flagged for violating it in each of their first two games.
