Stop celebrating

Professional and collegiate sports definitely dominate our culture in some aspects. For some biological reason, we love to associate ourselves with players, teams and programs that are bigger than ourselves.

If you question such a natural urge, then go play mahjong or watch people paint.
However, social media has seemingly brought out the worst in sports fans. No, we’re not talking about online heckling or being downright offensive. For some reason, social media has created the need for fans to go overboard with poses.

Friends and family at IU, it is time to retire your signature poses, at least the bad ones.
“Tebowing” was the first major pose to hit social

media. We thank them for that. But it’s time for “Tebowing” to hang up the cleats.
“Tebowing” is literally just someone praying. Tons of people pray, including athletes. So we apologize if we don’t understand the hype behind this pose.

Secondly, Tebow doesn’t even play anymore. He couldn’t play quarterback for the Jets. Do you realize how embarrassing that is? That’s like being told you aren’t qualified enough to write for the IDS (if you can read this sentence, you can write for the IDS).

“Griffining” also became a fad earlier this year. Robert Griffin III pointed to the sky once after his first touchdown, and because of this singular event, that became his “pose.”

At least Tebow would do his pose a lot. The same can’t be said about Robert Griffin III. He only did his pose once, so we’re a little confused as to why everyone clamored and hurried to make that his signature pose. This is just a classic case of people trying too hard. For that reason, it’s officially time for people to never “Griffin” again.

Then 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick started kissing his tatted bicep after scoring touchdowns.

As masculine and baller as that move is, normal people just don’t have the biceps, nor the ink, of a starting NFL quarterback to pull off such a pose. So, you kind of just look stupid if you imitate him.

The most recent pose surrounds the intriguing case of Manti Te’o’s imaginary girlfriend. If you’ve been living under a rock for the past two weeks, Manti Te’o was a Heisman finalist linebacker from Notre Dame.

However, he is in the spotlight because of speculation surrounding his ex-girlfriend who died during the season. News broke that his ex-girlfriend never existed, that she was a social media façade created by some creep.

The hoax surrounding Manti Te’o lead to “Te’oing.” Te’oing is when you pose with an imaginary person, like giving yourself a hug or high-fiving nobody.

It’s actually pretty funny, so we’d like to see it stick around for a while. But all the other poses should get the ax.