awww, so what level of control do you expect? a fist pump in the air? or rip off a helmet and fist pump to the face? I played football, at more than one level. I understand the emotion involved. Unlike you, the celebration doesn't excite me near as much as a bone crushing hit, or leaving some guy holding air on the way to the endzone. the game provides enough excitement for me, the rest is fluff.
Like I said, a dog can learn control in life or death situations. Certainly a grown man can remember not to make a throat cutting gesture while in the midst of a game.Train your dog. You can kick my dog in the face and if I tell them to down they will, and they'll tear into you with just as much enthusiasm, because they have learned control. Even LT, running around like a pack of crazed dogs, had a fair amount of self control. Unless you think it's above a grown man to have self control in the midst of a game.
awww, so what level of control do you expect? a fist pump in the air? or rip off a helmet and fist pump to the face? I played football, at more than one level. I understand the emotion involved. Unlike you, the celebration doesn't excite me near as much as a bone crushing hit, or leaving some guy holding air on the way to the endzone. the game provides enough excitement for me, the rest is fluff.
and as I said, there's a difference between types of celebrations, if your sensibilities can't decipher, well, i'm ok with that
Then quit replying. It's ok if you can't tell the difference between pumping a fist in the air to celebrate and pumping it into someone's face. Having a level of control during a game, has been, and always should be expected. If your brain is wired in such a way you have no control, then maybe a game isn't for you?
oh, ok. I must have misinterpreted your slights and jabs. Whatever mate, knock yourself out, maybe go watch dancing with the stars because apparently you really don't like football but love men dancing. You aren't here to agree to disagree, you're here to take passive aggressive shots and then slink back. So do it.
That's your take away point? I view my relationship with my dogs as anything but dominance over them. You know nothing about me. Spontaneous fun is fine, and encouraged, but so is a level of control over your emotions. I'm fine with 15 yards being tacked on to guys that take their helmets off. you know why? because we couldn't even take ours off in practice so we didn't. Surely a pro can handle that. they used to be able to take them off in spontaneous fun, ala Favre tossing a TD to Rison in a super bowl. But since then, it morphed from that to let me rip my own helmet off after every play to start jawing in someone's face. it wasn't about fun anymore, it was about being a classless, little self controlled *****.
as you've said 3 times now? you're done remember, move along. report yourself, i have no intention of doing so.
you can't talk of the dangers because you don't know. and you'd probably be very surprised to see how my "dominance" was attained. I do intend to maintain dogs that have a level of self control, I do not intend to hold them under my thumb with "dominance" I'm an alpha only because they trust me to give them direction and not for any other reason. anyway, if an animal can maintain self control, so can a person.
It would be like the ref. asking a boxer to stop hitting his opponent when his fist is already halfway to his face.
As I'm sure you know, they even made a statue for it!
Now if that had been in a football game?Here is what happens when we teach our kids to celebrate....too early
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Comparing dogs to people is like comparing apples to oranges.
Im not so sure about that.
it is comparing apples to oranges, that's the point. One has a more primitive brain with less impulse control that has enough to control itself and the other is a grown man who is being made excuses for because he's playing a game.
