During a Dallas Cowboys game against the Buffalo Bills, wide receiver Brice Butler caught a 10-yard touchdown pass from Dak Prescott. The catch was clean, both feet inbounds, the kind of routine touchdown that becomes a story only when something goes wrong afterward. Something went wrong.
Jason Witten — Cowboys tight end, reliable blocker, man not particularly associated with tolerance for post-play looseness — walked directly into the middle of the celebration and shut it down. Butler and a few teammates had started a Rock Paper Scissors game in the end zone. Witten ended it. He waved off the game, broke up the group, and moved on with the energy of someone who had personally witnessed an embarrassment.
It turned out Witten thought Butler was out of bounds. He was wrong. The review confirmed Butler had scored legally, which meant Witten had interrupted a legitimately earned touchdown celebration over a concern that the replay immediately dismissed. A moment that should have produced a story about football players enjoying a hand game after a score ended instead as a story about Witten being incorrect about the sideline and also being opposed to fun under official circumstances.
The clip has aged well in the specific way that sports moments do when the person being serious turns out to be wrong. Witten has moved into a broadcasting career since then, where his opportunities to physically intervene in Rock Paper Scissors celebrations are considerably more limited.
For the record: the WRPSA's position on post-touchdown RPS is straightforward. It's an excellent format for the context. Short game, high stakes, instant resolution, built-in drama. A player who just scored a touchdown is in a heightened competitive state that produces interesting throw patterns. The celebration format eliminates the strategic complexity of a longer match and replaces it with pure moment-read. Witten's instinct to stop the game may have inadvertently protected Butler from being read by a sharp opponent. That's the only part of the story where Witten comes out ahead.