Michigan baseball player apologizes for celebration

Voit, who is batting an absurd .451 with six home runs and 28 RBIs in 19 games thus far this season, went 3-for-3 with four RBIs on Sunday as Michigan went on to thump USC by an 11-0 final score. While you can’t blame him for getting a little hyped up there, Voit is now apologizing for taking things too far.

The entire episode recalls to mind the original pioneer of the cocaine celebration — former Liverpool and England striker Robbie Fowler. During a 1999 away match against Everton, Fowler scored for Liverpool on a penalty kick and proceeded to taunt the Everton fans by pretending to snort cocaine, using the goal line to simulate it.

Here is the video (where you can see that Fowler even came back for a second sniff).

Fowler later claimed that he was firing back at Everton fans for previously taunting him with false accusations of drug abuse. But Fowler’s celebration still got him a four-match ban from the Football Association (FA) as well as a then-Premier League record £32,000 fine.

Now over two-and-a-half decades later, Voit almost certainly won’t be facing any kind of discipline for his own Robbie Fowler moment. But at the very least, Voit is feeling the need to issue a public apology.