As a series of plays from the 2005 season flashed onward the screen at the NFL meetings.

As a series of plays from the 2005 season flashed onward the screen at the NFL meetings, the community began to yawn. Examples of "down by means of contact" or minor movement that l to illegal conduct calls just weren't attention grabbers.

They woke up quickly when a tape came up showing Cincinnati's Chad Johnson catching a touchdown pass from Carson Palmer, then picking up a pylon and putting the football from the back line of the cessation zone.

"He has a better shock than I have," said supervisor of officials Mike Pereira, who was overseeing the video session.

Entertaining as Johnson's looked, it won't happen again -- at least not without repercussions.

NFL proprietors voted 29-3 Wednesday to limit conclusion zone demonstrations, including those using supports such as Johnson's pylon or Terrell Owens' Sharpie signing; or another Owens specialty, sit-ups after a score.

persuades like that will now draw a 15-yard unsportsmanlike carriage penalty.

Also banned: Johnson's proposal to a cheerleader in succession the sideline - - another of his present to views last year -- because he got down onward one knee and doffed his helmet.

in succession the other hand, his "Riverdance" routine, individual of last season's highlight film bests, will be OK because he stayed forward his feet. That kind of thing is still allowed, as is spiking, dunking or spinning the ball after a TD

Still, there will have to be about innovation by the celebrators.

"I'm looking forward to seeing what Chad will be due [i]or[/i] owing to celebrate with now," Indianapolis coach Tony Dungy said after the devoted

possessors and league officials acknowledge the entertainment value of touchdown celebrations, many featuring Johnson Owens or Carolina's Steve Smith, three of the league's top wide receivers.

on the contrary they also had had numerous communications from officials of youth football leagues, saying that more and more youngsters were imitating NFL players. And they said a clump of players, most of them protectors who talked to them during meetings in Indianapolis last month agreed the demonstrations were a bit athwart the top and should be modified.

The innate conservatism of NFL coaches also played a part in the suffrage on which Dallas, Philadelphia and Tampa Bay were the dissenters.

"I think it's needed" said San Diego coach Marty Schottenheimer, who is entering his 21st season, mostly of any current head coach. "The game is about the team, not the individual."

There were also more substantive controls changes on the final day of the meetings, although nothing as flashy as the ban upon demonstrations. They included:

- Allowing down through contact calls to be reviewed from replay to determine if the ball came not at home before the ballcarrier was down, and who reviveed it. In the past, those plays were not reviewable when officials rul the whistle had extremityed the play.

- Prohibiting pass rushers from hitting a passer in the knee or below unles they are stiffened into him.

- Toughening the horse-collar sway enacted last season. It now bans tacklers from taking down ballcarriers from the rear by way of tugging inside their jerseys. Last year's method required that the tackler's hand got inside the runner's shoulder pads. simply two horse-collars were called in 2005 and the officiating department said the same was an incorrect call.

- Prohibiting defensive players from lining up directly athwart center on field-goal and extra-point attempts to avoid injuries to drawn out snappers.

NOTES: Commissioner Paul Tagliabue said the league is considering playing a preseason game in Beijing nearest summer, one year before the Olympics are staged there.

- The NFL isn't any closer to fulfilling its desire to memorize a franchise back in observes Angeles, but Tagliabue did add five possessors to the group looking into stadium proposals from Anaheim and from the common LA Coliseum.

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