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Football players love to celebrate when they "score a touchdown" (make points during a game). Many players perform touchdown celebrations, which have become "increasingly" (more and more) "complex" (detailed and involving many parts; not simple) over time.

The simplest touchdown celebrations could just be a player jumping up and down "for joy" (out of happiness) with his hands in the air. Many players choose to "spike the ball," which means throwing it onto the ground so that it lands on the "pointed" (not rounded) end of the ball and then bounces back up.

Some players like to have more "elaborate" (more involved; more complex) touchdown celebrations. Some players perform a "backflip" (jumping into the air and bending backwards, flipping the entire body to land on one's feet again, without placing the hands on the ground) or a short "salsa dance" (a style of dance popular in Latin America). Other players jump backward into the arms of the "crowd" (audience members) in what is known as a Lambeau leap. Some players have even played a quick game of "duck duck goose" (a child's game where children sit in a circle and one person walks on the outside of the circle, tapping shoulders, until the "goose" has to quickly get up and chase the child as he or she runs back into the circle).

The "National Football League" (NFL) "frowns upon" (does not like or approve of) highly "choreographed" (planned with dance moves) celebrations. In 2006, the NFL created "penalties" (when the ball is moved backward during a game to punish a team) against players who use a "prop" (an object used in a performance) for "excessive" (too much) celebration.