PHILADELPHIA — The NFL has often been referred to as the No Fun League and it is teetering once again on that territory with the senseless flags and fines we see every week for taunting and celebration penalties.

The first reference I can remember to the No Fun League was in this brilliantly written Sports Illustrated story by Curry Kirkpatrick in 1991. Back then the league was concerned about celebrations going over the top, but today the issue extends to taunting — that rude treatment the French guard hilariously hurls at King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table in the classic movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

“Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries,” would surely draw a flag and an $11,593 fine in today’s NFL.

We’ve witnessed four taunting fla

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