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Originally Posted by Skipaway
Actually, name a team sport where this kind of retaliation is acceptable? You can't.
I already named a team sport where this kind of thing doesn't result in retaliation: baseball. The link I provided above talked about how in Japan they can celebrate homeruns by doing cartwheels, and how Japanese players had a hard time understanding why in American baseball players have a hard time accepting celebrations by players of the opposing team.
In American football, touchdown celebration is common. Other than the league trying to limit it, it's never a norm for the other team to retaliate. Same for soccer. Even in basketball, it's not the norm to retaliate.
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Who said thing one about it being acceptable? It's not acceptable to throw at a guy in retaliation. That doesn't mean it's not going to happen. If a guy wants to do cartwheels following a home run, be my guest, but I think he best be prepared to face the consequences.
Celebrating a touchdown is fine, but if the player directs that celebration directly at an opposing player(such as blowing him a kiss) you're wrong to think some form of retaliation isn't going to occur. Why do you think College football has excessive celebration penalties in place? It's to help the officials keep a game from getting out of their control.
Retaliation is accepted in hockey. Sure you get a penalty, but you're not thrown out of the game unless you go too far.
I think the reason you think these other sports don't have retaliation going on, is the fact that when it happens in other sports, it's not as obvious as someone hitting a batter with 90 mile an hour fastball.