German soccer league says no to masked celebrations

It turns out the NFL isn’t the only No Fun League.

Germany’s top soccer leagues are putting the kibosh on players who don a mask to celebrate a goal.

This comes on the heels of Borussia Dortmund’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Marco Reus dressing like the Dynamic Duo after a goal against archrival Schalke.

Aubameyang put on a Batman mask and Reus looked like Robin.

But the elite referees commission for the German Soccer Association sent a letter to all Bundesliga and Second Bundesliga clubs, reminding them that the Dortmund fun fell under Rule 12 of the league rules (forbidden play and unsporting behavior).

“Under the rules, a player should receive a yellow card, ‘if he covers his head or face with a mask or anything similar,’” according to a release on the association’s website.

The penalty will be a yellow card.

In the release, Herbert Fandel, chairman of the refereeing committee said “emotions belong on the pitch, especially the joy of scoring a goal. We don’t want to seem too inflexible, but we can’t let things go too far.”

Sigh. I guess we’ll have to just content ourselves with Jurgen Klopp celebrations: