rlier this season, emulating James chalk toss after scoring a touchdown. Mistake. The first segment, pictured above, was fine. What happened next -- visible on this NFL.com video -- was not. By sprinkling a handful of chalk on the ball, Pryor was using it as a prop in the celebration. The play was not

The NFL reached Peak No Fun League this season, the result of another attempt to crack down on the kind of insidious, soul-draining behavior that threatens to undermine the fabric of the game. In other words, spontaneous joy is out. So are most forms of celebration and darn near every ounce of shade players toss at one another. Taunting penalties have spiked, at one point up more than 200 percent compared with last season. Unsportsmanlike conduct penalties have risen, and ejections have nearly tripled last seasons total.How to make sense of a world scared straight? For your convenience, ESPN offers this handy tool. Flag or no flag? You make the call. Well tell you if youre, uh, right.Josh Norman, Washington Redskins | Bow and ArrowNorman pretends to shoot a bow and arrow. Hes holding neither a bow nor an arrow, but you get the point. Think of him as a modern day Robin Hood. He steals from the rich and gives to the poor. This is a penalty because it is close enough to a machine-gun salute that is explicitly banned in the NFL rulebook. Penalty? Yes!Antonio Brown, Pittsburgh Steelers | End Zone TwerkingEverybodys doing the twerk, including Brown. But thats a big no-no. Nobody twerks in the NFL. Nobody. In the view of league officials, its a sexually suggestive dance that involves gyrations, both of which are explicitly banned in the NFL rulebook. Thats a penalty every time.?Penalty? Yes!Emmanuel Sanders, Denver Broncos | The CartwheelA cartwheel is dramatic and draws attention to the individual who is, well, cartwheeling. But surprise! Its not illegal according to NFL rules. (Wait until next year. Ha!) Sanders didnt violate any of the known restrictions. It wasnt prolonged or excessive. It wasnt sexually suggestive. It had no gyrations, and the only parts of his body that touched the ground were his hands and feet. Good job, good effort! Penalty? No!Golden Tate, Detroit Lions | Lets Go Lions!The Lions added a cheerleading squad this season, and all Golden Tate wanted to do was support it. So after a touchdown earlier this season, he jumped into the mix, borrowed a pair of poms and joined in the dance. No penalty! He was on the sideline, after all, and outside of the field of play. He was free to do darn near anything that didnt spur an all-around brawl. Penalty? No!Andrew Hawkins, Cleveland Browns | The RobotAndrew. Hawkins. Decided. He. Wanted. To. Be. A. Troll. (Good. Natured. Of. Course.) So. He. Acted. Like. A. Robot. After. Scoring. A. Touchdown. The. Browns. Receiver. Placed. The. Ball. On. The. Ground. Like. A. Mechanical. Robot. Then. He. Walked. To. The. Sideline. It. Was. Funny. And. Completely. Legal. Because. No. Other. Teammates. Jumped. In. Well. Done. And. Point. Well. Taken. Penalty? No.Vernon Davis, Washington Redskins | The Jump ShotDavis is 6-foot-5 and has played a little basketball in his time. Back in the day, he celebrated touchdowns by dunking over the crossbar. When the NFL outlawed that, he pulled back to shooting a little fadeaway jump shot. But as he found out this season, the fade is a foul too. It uses the ball and the crossbar as props -- the football standing in as a basketball, the crossbar as a hoop -- and thats a penalty. Penalty? Yes!Terrelle Pryor, Cleveland Browns | The LeBronPryor paid homage to Cleveland legend LeBron James earlier this season, emulating James chalk toss after scoring a touchdown. Mistake. The first segment, pictured above, was fine. What happened next -- visible on this NFL.com video -- was not. By sprinkling a handful of chalk on the ball, Pryor was using it as a prop in the celebration. The play was not penalized, but Pryor said he was fined -- an indication officials should have thrown a flag as well. Penalty? No!Stefon Diggs, Minnesota Vikings | Diggin ItDiggs likes to go Gravedigger when he scores. You know, because his name is Diggs and thats part of the word Gravedigger. Lo and behold, its perfectly legal and will remain so as long as he doesnt use the ball as a shovel, and no other players join in on the fun. Penalty? No!Blake Bortles, Jacksonville Jaguars | Kickin ItNFL players can spike and spin a ball, as long as they dont do it toward an opponent. The same goes for a punt. So when the Jaguars QB celebrated a touchdown by punting the ball into the crowd at Londons Wembley Stadium, Bortles was neither penalized nor fined. Who knew? Penalty? No!Terrelle Pryor, Cleveland Browns | Ooops!After making a big catch in Week 2, Pryor appeared to be flipping the ball to an official as he returned to the line of scrimmage. But the ball hit an opposing player, and the nearby official judged it to be taunting. Penalty? Yes!Animations by Andrew Colin Beck Cheap Basketball Shoes For Sale . PAUL, Minn. 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Kickoff at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa is scheduled for 7 p.m. ET (ESPN).Now that we are back in SEC play, I think its time to build on that; build on the momentum, Saban said. If we want to be the team that we are capable of being, I think its important for everyone to buy into that and do that. The SEC is a tough league, and every game you play in this league is an important game as this game will be against Kentucky.Kentucky marks the first of four straight SEC games before Alabamas bye week.Saban is hoping to get a couple of people healthy, including running back Damien Harris, the Tides leading rusher with 345 yards and an impressive 8.6 per carry average.The injury update is Damien Harris is still day-to-day, Saban said, adding that wide receivers ArDarius Stewart and Robert Foster also are considered questionable this week with knee injuries.Harris is a freshman from Richmond, Kentucky, just a short hop from the Wildcats campus in Lexington and very well known to Kentucky coach Mark Stoops.Damien looks very good, just like we knew recruiting him and watching him play right here in Kentucky, Stoops said. Hes just like youd expect. Hes a very talented guy and he looks very explosive, the great vision, the great jump cuts that you see out of him, thats what you see on film.The Wildcats are 2-2 (1-1 SEC) overall after a 17-10 victory over South Carolina last weekend. Although they may not appear to be a threat to the 4-0 Crimson Tide, as is his wont, Saban isnt taking Kentucky lightly.Kentucky has played their best in the last two games that they have played, Saban said. Mark Stoops has done a really good job of sort of finding out who they are and how they want to play. They played really well in the last two games.They have really ggood skill players on offense, good running backs and good receivers.dddddddddddd. They have explosive guys that have put up pretty impressive performances to this point.Their quarterback has played well for them, even though he had to come in for the starter, and he has done a nice job. They havent really skipped a beat.Maybe so, but this is still Kentucky, which hasnt beaten Alabama anywhere in that state in 22 tries, going 0-9 in Tuscaloosa, 0-8-1 in Birmingham, and 0-4 in Montgomery.You know they are led by arguably the best coach of all-time in college football and it starts there, Stoops said, referring to Saban. But what impresses you about them is their whole program.Top to bottom they do things right. They are extremely talented, and they are very well coached. So, there is a lot to talk about on what they do right.Stoops, however, isnt dwelling on what the Tide does as much as he zeroes in on his Wildcats, who have won their last two games over New Mexico State and the Gamecocks to even up their record after losses to Southern Mississippi and Florida.I want to see us continue to worry about us, he said, continue to progress, and continue to improve in the areas we need to improve.Quarterback Stephen Johnson, a junior-college transfer who has taken over for injured starter Drew Barker, guided the Wildcats to both of their wins. He has completed 28 of 41 attempts in the two games for 445 yards and three touchdowns.I saw a guy that made plays when he had to and really did what he had to do to manage the game and win the game, Stoops said. There were some throws that he could have forced that he didnt.He made good decisions and got critical first downs with his legs. He took care of the football later on.There are still some things we know we need to clean up that Im not happy about with turnovers and the ball on the ground but late in the game he did a better job with that. ' ' '