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The NFL reached Peak No Fun League this season, the result of another attempt to crack down on the kind of insidious, soul-draining behavior that threatens to undermine the fabric of the game. In other words, spontaneous joy is out. So are most forms of celebration and darn near every ounce of shade players toss at one another. Taunting penalties have spiked, at one point up more than 200 percent compared with last season. Unsportsmanlike conduct penalties have risen, and ejections have nearly tripled last seasons total.How to make sense of a world scared straight? For your convenience, ESPN offers this handy tool. Flag or no flag? You make the call. Well tell you if youre, uh, right.Josh Norman, Washington Redskins | Bow and ArrowNorman pretends to shoot a bow and arrow. Hes holding neither a bow nor an arrow, but you get the point. Think of him as a modern day Robin Hood. He steals from the rich and gives to the poor. This is a penalty because it is close enough to a machine-gun salute that is explicitly banned in the NFL rulebook. Penalty? Yes!Antonio Brown, Pittsburgh Steelers | End Zone TwerkingEverybodys doing the twerk, including Brown. But thats a big no-no. Nobody twerks in the NFL. Nobody. In the view of league officials, its a sexually suggestive dance that involves gyrations, both of which are explicitly banned in the NFL rulebook. Thats a penalty every time.?Penalty? Yes!Emmanuel Sanders, Denver Broncos | The CartwheelA cartwheel is dramatic and draws attention to the individual who is, well, cartwheeling. But surprise! Its not illegal according to NFL rules. (Wait until next year. Ha!) Sanders didnt violate any of the known restrictions. It wasnt prolonged or excessive. It wasnt sexually suggestive. It had no gyrations, and the only parts of his body that touched the ground were his hands and feet. Good job, good effort! Penalty? No!Golden Tate, Detroit Lions | Lets Go Lions!The Lions added a cheerleading squad this season, and all Golden Tate wanted to do was support it. So after a touchdown earlier this season, he jumped into the mix, borrowed a pair of poms and joined in the dance. No penalty! He was on the sideline, after all, and outside of the field of play. He was free to do darn near anything that didnt spur an all-around brawl. Penalty? No!Andrew Hawkins, Cleveland Browns | The RobotAndrew. Hawkins. Decided. He. Wanted. To. Be. A. Troll. (Good. Natured. Of. Course.) So. He. Acted. Like. A. Robot. After. Scoring. A. Touchdown. The. Browns. Receiver. Placed. The. Ball. On. The. Ground. Like. A. Mechanical. Robot. Then. He. Walked. To. The. Sideline. It. Was. Funny. And. Completely. Legal. Because. No. Other. Teammates. Jumped. In. Well. Done. And. Point. Well. Taken. Penalty? No.Vernon Davis, Washington Redskins | The Jump ShotDavis is 6-foot-5 and has played a little basketball in his time. Back in the day, he celebrated touchdowns by dunking over the crossbar. When the NFL outlawed that, he pulled back to shooting a little fadeaway jump shot. But as he found out this season, the fade is a foul too. It uses the ball and the crossbar as props -- the football standing in as a basketball, the crossbar as a hoop -- and thats a penalty. Penalty? Yes!Terrelle Pryor, Cleveland Browns | The LeBronPryor paid homage to Cleveland legend LeBron James earlier this season, emulating James chalk toss after scoring a touchdown. Mistake. The first segment, pictured above, was fine. What happened next -- visible on this NFL.com video -- was not. By sprinkling a handful of chalk on the ball, Pryor was using it as a prop in the celebration. The play was not penalized, but Pryor said he was fined -- an indication officials should have thrown a flag as well. Penalty? No!Stefon Diggs, Minnesota Vikings | Diggin ItDiggs likes to go Gravedigger when he scores. You know, because his name is Diggs and thats part of the word Gravedigger. Lo and behold, its perfectly legal and will remain so as long as he doesnt use the ball as a shovel, and no other players join in on the fun. Penalty? No!Blake Bortles, Jacksonville Jaguars | Kickin ItNFL players can spike and spin a ball, as long as they dont do it toward an opponent. The same goes for a punt. So when the Jaguars QB celebrated a touchdown by punting the ball into the crowd at Londons Wembley Stadium, Bortles was neither penalized nor fined. Who knew? Penalty? No!Terrelle Pryor, Cleveland Browns | Ooops!After making a big catch in Week 2, Pryor appeared to be flipping the ball to an official as he returned to the line of scrimmage. But the ball hit an opposing player, and the nearby official judged it to be taunting. Penalty? Yes!Animations by Andrew Colin Beck Vans Soldes Pas Cher . Dusautoir, the former World Player of the Year, sustained a torn bicep playing for Toulouse in the Heineken Cup on Saturday. The flanker, who has played 65 times for France, is expected to be out for up to four months. Vans Pas Cher Destockage . -- Chicago Bears cornerback Tim Jennings was selected Monday to his second straight Pro Bowl, while guard Kyle Long made it after a solid rookie season. http://www.paschervans.fr/ . The Islanders dealt Thomas Vanek to the Montreal Canadiens after less than a year on Long Island. Meanwhile, the Oilers dealt long-time sniper Ales hemsky to the Ottawa Senators on Wednesday for a fifth-round pick in 2014 and a third-rounder in 2015. Vans Authentic Pas Cher . LOUIS -- Heading into the final stretch of the season, the issues for the Chicago Bears banged-up defence only seem to be getting worse. Chaussures Vans Authentic Soldes . Their experience showed Tuesday as the No. 10 Badgers blunted a Saint Louis surge to win 63-57 and advance to face West Virginia in Wednesdays finals of the Cancun Challenge. Back in the day, before thigh pads came into common use, towels (and a Readers Digest) were pressed into service for leg protection. Even so, this photo (above) of Jack Hobbs and Herbert Sutcliffe walking out to bat at The Oval in 1930 is surprising with its naked thumbs (and partially exposed fingers) on their left/top hands. The oppositions bowlers werent all that fast - Tim Wall and Alan Fairfax were Australias opening quicks - but the gloves still look more suitable to motorbike-riding than batting in a Test.Even today the thumbs of top-hand gloves arent padded, but the rest of the fingers get solid protection, if you go by MS Dhonis hamburger-style bite here.West Indies keeper Carlton Baughs glove flies off, presumably after he took it off to grab the ball and throw it - just a glimpse of the multitasking that is routinely expected of wicketkeepers.Not only do they multitask, they are also multiskilled. Reserve keeper Chris Read (right) helps mend Alec Stewarts gloves inn Cape Town, 2000.ddddddddddddSometimes even umpires need protection.Brian Lara indulges in some glove love with Runako Morton, Mumbai, 2006. Matthew Hayden had a story about the Australians disdain for such fancy behaviour. He writes in his autobiography: For years, Australian teams had taken the rise out of the glove-touching fad, and to the mirth of the boys, Ricky Ponting became the first one to do it when he batted with Brian Lara in the tsunami game at the MCG. Brian raised his gloves and Ricky had nowhere to go. He knew hed cop it from the rest of us, and he wasnt disappointed. Right then, so youll do it with Lara and the rest of us get brushed - is that the deal, we said.No mirth for Ponting here as England use the delaying tactic of calling for gloves in order to bat out a draw in Cardiff, 2009. Share the (g)love, guys, thats what we say. ' ' '