Dolphins wide receiver Brian Hartline capped his one-yard third quarter TD catch vs. Kansas City on Sunday by imitating a golfer attempting a successful putt as the gallery — a group comprising several of his teammates, including Mike Wallace — looked on.
As post-TD celebrations go, it was a creative one.
However, it was a costly one, as it drew a 15-yard penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct, for it was an orchestrated group celebration.
The Dolphins then had to kick off from their 20, and the Chiefs capitalized with a 25-yard return to the Kansas City 34, earning good field position. And the Chiefs’ offense would go on to a 10-play, 66-yard drive ending in Joe McKnight’s 11-yard TD catch.
That, of course, can’t be pinned on Hartline. But the celebration did turn a kickoff that would have landed in the endzone into one that landed on the nine-yard line.