Horns Down Will Not Be A Penalty In The SEC, Rules Official Says

The SEC Coordinator of Officials John McDaid spoke at SEC Media Days this week and revealed that the "Horns Down" gesture will not be a penalty. Per ESPN:

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SEC coordinator of officials John McDaid was asked if "Horns Down," the taunting gesture employed by Texas foes, would be a penalty as it often was in the Big 12, where it fell under the definition of unsportsmanlike conduct.

In the SEC's case, it doesn't pass the mall test.

"The act itself needs to be offending to the senses," McDaid said. "If you took that act out of a football stadium and did it in a shopping mall or a grocery store, would it offend the senses to a majority of the reasonable people in the area? That signal would not. You might have some people that share that signal with you, if you did that at a grocery store or a shopping mall, depending where you are. We're going to evaluate it in context."

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