Here's the video of his end-zone celebration. (new window)

Typical Canadian football team:

In before "canadian football is so much better than the NFL".

It could've easily been a tribute to Jeff Goldblum.

How can anyone construe that as a Michael Jackson reference?

CFL receiver in trouble after celebrating touchdown


A compact fluorescent light receiver scored a touchdown?


I really don't understand football.

I don't get it.

In case any of you didn't hear...

FTA: "The 50-year-old iconic entertainer died last week."

In before I like the "I like the light skinned Michael Jackson more than the darker skinned Michael Jackson"

Car_Ramrod: It could've easily been a tribute to Jeff Goldblum.

I heard he died the other day.

I did the exact same celebration the last time I won a game of chess.

Who am I kidding, I've never won a game of chess.

I thought he was doing an immitation of T.O.'s career.

zabadu: How can anyone construe that as a Michael Jackson reference?

well maybe he told them.....


Either way, this is not the kind of super showboating that goes on in the US.

40below: Here's the video of his end-zone celebration. (new window)

What the hell? Did he get up and scream "Hey! I was being dead Michael Jackson! Yeah, that's my MJ impression right there!!"

Would anyone know what the hell he was doing there if he just kept his mouth shut? Or did everyone guess?

The 50-year-old iconic entertainer died last week.

Kind of old for a football player, even in the Canadian league. And I don't think a CFL player qualifies as an "iconic entertainer."

The "celebration" was lame. He could've at least moonwalked before he died.

He jerked off a little boy?

zabadu: How can anyone construe that as a Michael Jackson reference?

Arland Bruce (the player who did it) was asked about it on the sidelines after and said it was a Michael Jackson tribute.

zabadu: How can anyone construe that as a Michael Jackson reference?

Not much of a reference if you explain it and still no one gets it.
Still love those Argo uniforms though.

Butterfinger: I thought he was doing an immitation of T.O.'s career.

T.O. died many seasons ago.

Maybe I should start watching CFL football. Sounds like they aren't as pretentious when it comes to "cracking down" on player's celebrations.

bruce4bruce: In before I like the "I like the light skinned Michael Jackson more than the darker skinned Michael Jackson"

I liked the dark skinned Michael Jackson during the "Rock with you" era, and I liked the light skinned Michael Jackson during the "Earth Song" and "Black or White" era.

I take it MJ isn't getting buried with his shoulder pads?

At least his tribute didn't involve inviting one of the boys from the stands as part of "his endzone" tribute

When did Michael Jackson die?

NorCalLos: He could've at least moonwalked before he died.

That could have helped folks figure out what he was intending.

The last time I was in Montreal I was sitting in a pub drinking my beer when I saw they had the CFL on TV. Before this I didn't know there was a difference in rules. I asked the bartender why there were more yards on the field. I was treated to a 20 minute diatribe about all the different rules and why each were superior.

Remembering I didn't give a shiat about US or Canadian football, I learned my lesson and will from now on no longer engage locals in a Canadian bar.

Fark Michael Jackson, you don't take off your pads and lie on the ground after a touchdown...period.

Crazy Canuck.

Car_Ramrod: It could've easily been a tribute to Jeff Goldblum.

The new Abe Vigoda?

He didn't look like a Lego to me.

gorgor: He jerked off a little boy?

He climbed a tree?

He should have moonwalked, grabbed his heart, then fell over.

They have football in Canada?

CapitolG: zabadu: How can anyone construe that as a Michael Jackson reference?

well maybe he told them.....


Either way, this is not the kind of super showboating that goes on in the US.

I'm a CFL fan and I felt he should have been ejected (you can get ejected for excessive objectionable conduct) for that display.

Last year, the same guy pulled off his helmet and put on a Spider-man mask.

I've been seeing too much of this coordinated stuff for years in the CFL and it should be stopped. It makes the players doing it look like idiots. We've had guys pretending to be bobsledders, using another player and pretending to be on an exercise bike, players having a game of Duck-Duck-Goose and so forth. Ridiculous.

Minimize the celebration if you have one, do it by yourself and then get the hell off the field.

EsteeFlwrPot: I don't get it.

Christ, you're still around??? I was hoping you were welcoming MJ through the gates of hell.

Think what the NFL would do to this clown for stripping off his gear in an end-zone 'celebration'.

Super Chronic: Car_Ramrod: It could've easily been a tribute to Jeff Goldblum.

The new Abe Vigoda?

I've never seen them in the same room together.

epyonyx: When did Michael Jackson die?

He didn't... it was just a prank on The Colbert Report.

henryhill: He should have moonwalked, grabbed his heart, then fell over.

And then get up and do the Thriller dance.

News: There is a Canadian Football League
Fark: They play American football

Man, Canadians are REALLY good at Charades...

Did you guys hear Megan Fox is bisexual?

/was MJ bisexual?

dennysgod: Fark Michael Jackson, you don't take off your pads and lie on the ground after a touchdown...period.

Crazy Canuck.

Actually, the player who did it is an American.

Arland Bruce (new window)

Most of the Canadian players show a little more respect and just hand the ball to the referee after scoring.

There's black people in Canada?

Fibber McLiarson: EsteeFlwrPot: I don't get it.

Christ, you're still around??? I was hoping you were welcoming MJ through the gates of hell.

lmao I thought I was the only one that felt that way.

epyonyx: When did Michael Jackson die?

I think he's still alive but retired from the Ravens.

nosferatublue: gorgor: He jerked off a little boy?

He climbed a tree?

He gave wine to little boys?

Norad: What the hell? Did he get up and scream "Hey! I was being dead Michael Jackson! Yeah, that's my MJ impression right there!!"

My feeling is that until the CFL gets tough and starts assessing immediate rouges on teams whose players behave like this, the league is going to Come-By-Chance on a Chesterfield, as we say aroond here.

Vern the Worm: Butterfinger: I thought he was doing an immitation of T.O.'s career.

T.O. died many seasons ago.



What was that? I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of 3 consecutive 1000 yard, 10+ TD seasons.