BEER CHUG CHANGES CFL RULE
The CFL wants to make sure Jon Gott’s beer-chugging touchdown celebration doesn’t become a regular occurrence.
While the Ottawa Redblacks offensive lineman wasn’t fined by the league after grabbing a beer from his girlfriend and chugging it Friday after a touchdown, the league revised its celebration policy on Monday. The new policy prohibits “the use of alcohol or drugs and the mimicking of the use of alcohol or drugs.”
“When a player celebrated a touchdown this weekend by drinking a fan’s beer, he was acting within that policy and no discipline was mandated,” the statement says. “However, the situation prompted several discussions with our clubs which indicated concern there is a risk that repeated celebrations featuring alcohol, or for that matter drugs, could send the wrong signal about our players.”