When I recapped some of the rule changes at the NFL spring meeting, one of the big changes was that touchdown celebrations will be more relaxed moving forward. One of the things I wondered, though, was whether players would be allowed to “dunk” the ball over the goalpost? Even when the league initially went to stricter rules, dunking over the goalpost was allowed...until the actual goalpost got bent one day.

I contacted Brian McCarthy, who works PR for the NFL, asking whether it...

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