DALLAS, TX - OCTOBER 14: Baker Mayfield
Nowhere are the popular “Hook’em” and “Horns Down” gestures more prevalent than at the annual Red River rivalry game in Dallas every October.
For several years now, Big 12 officials have warned that they are cracking down on the Horns Down hand gesture when used on the field to taunt Longhorn players. But the verbal warnings have not always been enforced through action.
According to Big 12 director of officials Greg Burks, conference officials, the conference is going to get a lot more serious about penalizing teams for taunting an opposing player during the course of a game, and he made specific reference to the use of the the Horns Down hand signal.