The NFL has long been called the "No Fun League." That's not going away. On Wednesday, the NFL held a media briefing ahead of the annual league meetings in Palm Beach.
NFL Vice President of Football Operations Troy Vincent opened the meeting with a talk about how the NFL is looking to crack down or pay more attention to taunting penalties as well as violent and obscene gestures.
The league is concerned that in 2024, there were a lot of players who knowingly crossed the line, and the league was not too happy about it.
Make no mistake that this is not just a Jameson Williams thing, but considering that Williams was fined twice for a total of $45,022 during the 2024 season for celebrations like the one below and the Lions are the team that we cover, it feels important to bring up that the league is about to crack down a little more on stuff like this.
While this is funny and Williams is a funny guy, the league is not laughing at this or the Marshawn Lynch homage he did against the Jaguars earlier in the season.
In addition to this, there have been some violence-inspired taunts like players pretending to be shooting guns at their opponents that the league is likely to take very seriously.
Vincent did not go into detail on any instances, and he did not name any names. He also did not go into any detail on the league's plans to educate their players on what type of celebrations will or won't be tolerated or what the league plans to do about it in terms of fines or increased penalty yardage. We could learn more about that in Florida next week.
Until then, we know that the NFL plans to be on top of this stuff, and Williams, along with the rest of the league, is going to be on notice.
