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| Wednesday, December 13 Associated Press | |||
| ST. LOUIS -- Kurt Warner will pick up the tab for the "Bob
'N Weave."
The Rams' celebration dance, banned by the NFL, was performed
twice Sunday in the team's 40-29 victory over the Minnesota
Vikings. The players expect to be fined later this week.
"I don't care if it was $50,000 or if it was $250,000," the
quarterback said after St. Louis ended a three-game losing streak.
"It was well worth it.
"I wanted to spark this team into playing with emotion and
having fun again."
The Rams often performed the Bob 'N Weave, a group dance
invented by wide receiver Torry Holt, during their Super Bowl
season last year. The celebration was banned this season by the
NFL's competition committee, co-chaired by Vikings coach Dennis
Green.
Rams coach Mike Martz, who said he missed the first celebration
because he was looking at game charts, had mixed feelings about the
dance.
"I want it because of the enthusiasm and energy that it brings
back to this team and how we were, and I know how it was meant,"
Martz said. "That was the sole purpose, to get some of that
feeling back that we had going earlier in the year.
"So, I like that about it. (But) the league doesn't want it, so
obviously we don't want it."
The Rams tried inventing a new dance for this season, the "Duck
Down," in which players squatted wherever they were on the field
after a touchdown. That, too, was banned.
Five players forgot about the ban and did the "Bob 'N Weave"
after a touchdown at San Francisco in Game 3, and all were fined
$5,000.
On Sunday, seven Rams did the Bob 'N Weave after the first
touchdown and six more participated after the second, both of them
1-yard runs by Marshall Faulk.
"That's basically our team saying, 'Whatever the NFL's got to
do, it's got to do,' " cornerback Todd Lyght said.
Wide receiver Isaac Bruce called off the dance after the Rams'
third touchdown.
"Well, the fines get kind of tough," Holt said. "Some guys
have kids, so you want to keep that money."
Players are planning to keep it up the last two games. They're
at Tampa Bay next Monday and finish the regular season at New
Orleans on Christmas Eve.
"Whatever we need to do to keep this team fired up," Holt
said, "we're going to do it."
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St. Louis DB Dre Bly on Kurt Warner's decision to pay for the Rams' fines for excessive celebration.