Stay on your feet. No more push-ups, sit-ups, boat-rowing, snow angels or worm crawls. The NFL rulemakers also outlawed using the ball as a prop, and other such "foreign or extraneous objects that are not part of the uniform."

They don't even show the behavior earning the penalty on TV anymore. To my extraordinary disappointment. The Eagles won yesterday, and I haven't seen Brian Westbrook bust a grove in weeks. And I really really enjoy the football-bomb-o-line-collapse move. And I haven't seen the moonwalk in years.

I have to wonder why the NFL would ban such grandstanding. Maybe it's something about remembering a sense of sportsmanship lost when salaries exploded and professional athletics turned into a billion dollar industry. And I *have* to wonder whether someone will make some snarky remark during the inaugural bash. Then again, perhaps not. No one's outlawed the "point to God" gesture yet, generally observed after a homer. And the end of political speeches.