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Reggie Bush, Please Average 4 Yards a Carry Before You Start Taunting Opponents

Sep 15, 2008 – 7:26 AM
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Michael David Smith

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Dear Reggie Bush,

You have an annoying habit of taunting your opponents. You did it in the biggest game of your NFL career, a playoff loss at Chicago, and you did it yesterday, costing your team 15 yards of field position in a close loss to the Redskins.

Most of the great running backs through history -- Jim Brown, Walter Payton, Barry Sanders, Emmitt Smith, LaDainian Tomlinson -- have carried themselves in a dignified way on the field. Those men scored a combined 664 NFL touchdowns, and I can't think of a single time they danced or pranced or flaunted or taunted afterward. You would do well to emulate those men.

But there's something about your personality, I guess, that makes you enjoy taunting. So here's my proposal: Hold off on all the taunting until you've actually averaged 4.0 yards per carry in a season. So far your average yards per carry are 3.6, 3.7 and 3.3, and when you taunt people, you come across as someone who thinks he's better than he is. So let's get the average up to the 4.0 mark, and then, if you have to, go ahead and celebrate it by pointing in the face of an opponen.
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