Since the NFL banned goal post celebrations, here are 5 of the best

Roger Goodell is a boring prude and the NFL has once again showed its penchant for hating anything that brings a smile to our collective faces.

That's the overwhelming sentiment in that wake of Tuesday's announcement by vice president of officiating Dean Blandino that the league will now begin penalizing any player who celebrates scoring a touchdown by dunking the ball over the goal post.

Assuming Jimmy Graham took a second to stop complaining about his designation as a tight end, he probably shed a tear or two upon hearing the news.

Now that we will have to live without ever seeing it again, let us take a second to mourn the uber-popular celebration the best way we know how: by reminding everyone why it was so great.

Here are five of the best goal post dunk celebrations:

Jimmy Graham ruins everything

Not only has the New Orleans Saints star (who we will reserve assigning a position to at this time) revolutionized the tight end role, he is almost solely responsible for this latest rule change.

Thanks a lot, Jimmy.

Damn those football players and their ridiculous strength...that happens to be an absolute necessity if they are to be successful in their line of work.

St. Louis Rams head coach Jeff Fisher said - in the nicest way possible - what we were all thinking when the announcement of the rule change came to light: It's Graham's fault.

Per ESPN:

"And then last year we had an incident in one of the games where there was a dunk and the goalpost was tilted and the game was shut down for about 25 minutes until they could get the goalpost corrected. That's unnecessary, and so we just felt that we would include the goalpost in that category as props."

Fisher didn't specifically name Graham as the inspiration for the decision to add the dunk to the list of celebration no-nos, but when asked if it was the tight end he said: "It was a player that's done it before that's real tall, catches a lot of touchdown passes and is pretty good."

A former basketball player at the University of Miami, Drew Brees' favorite target has taken the mantle from the next person on our list, and made the celebration his own over the years.

Considering that he has caught more touchdown passes than any other player in the league over the last three seasons (36), Graham will need to come up with something to replace what can only be seen as a massive void in his life.

Tony Gonzalez, you will be missed

As he pointed out on Twitter in the immediate aftermath of the announcement, the legendary tight end got out of the game at just the right time.

Gonzalez's 111 career touchdowns are the most ever by a tight end. After a countless number of those ending with his trademark dunk, it's only fitting to look back and admire the grande finale.

Gonzalez, who is leaving the gridiron and heading into the television studio after a record-laden 17-year career, popularized the celebration as an ode to his days as a basketball player at California.

Sensing a trend here?

Megatron pays tribute to Dee Brown

Just as he does with essentially everything else, Calvin Johnson implemented the now-defunct celebration into his game better than most others on a football field.

Who needs vision when your nickname implies that you are the biggest, baddest dude in the game?

Dee Brown would be very proud.

Fat Guy TD dunk? Fat Guy TD dunk

Touchdowns are great. The celebrations, often times, are even better. Insert a lineman into the equation, and you have the ultimate combination that is sure to become an Internet sensation and rule the web forever (read: a couple of minutes until something else happens).

That's exactly what 340-pound Donald Penn did last season as a member of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Even the worst teams are good for something, apparently.

[Courtesy: BuzzFeed Sports]

Penn, who signed a two-year contract with the Oakland Raiders earlier this month, had hoped his celebratory skills would be allowed to flourish with his new team. Not quite.

The obvious moral of the story? The football world hates the Oakland Raiders.

Goal post 1, Vernon Davis 0

This is a classic case of something being so bad, it's good - bordering on great. 

San Francisco 49ers tight end Vernon Davis is a beast of a human being. At 6-foot-3, 250 pounds, the former sixth-overall draft pick in 2006 is a nightmare for the opposing defense, combining his aforementioned size with hands, speed and athleticism that are normally reserved for men of much smaller stature.

Exhibit A: Right here.

Unfortunately, the goal post is a cold, heartless, inanimate object that doesn't fawn over his skills the same way we do.

Davis may be the only person - literally the lone soul on the planet - who is happy to see the goal post dunk go the way of Richie Incognito's career.

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