NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and Cincinnati Bengals coach Marvin Lewis aren't going to see eye-to-eye on touchdown celebrations anytime soon.

The NFL announced Tuesday it would be relaxing its stance on celebration penalties, allowing once-banned group celebrations to return. Players can also now use the ball as a prop, although penalties deemed violent or obscene are still banned.

Lewis, who is on the NFL competition committee, said Tuesday that he didn't agree with the relaxation of the rules because it promotes individual players over the team. Goodell didn't agree.

"Well I've heard it from Marvin before," Goodell said at the NFL owners' meetings in Chicago. "We've had these discussions over the last couple of years. And I think the players will prove him wrong on that. I think the players will do this in a way that will be responsible and show good sportsmanship and do it in a way that I think is entertaining but also respectful."

Lewis said he thought relaxing the rules would set a bad example for younger players.

"I'm not for that at all," he said. "We had a good standard, and the whole standard has always been, you want to teach people how to play the game the correct way and go about it the correct way, and that's not a very good example for young people."

He added: "The rules were changed for a reason, and I thought we had a good outcome. Again, this is a team game, and ... I don't understand why we want to give in to individual celebrations."

Lewis is the former coach of wide receivers Chad Johnson and Terrell Owens, two players whose outlandish celebrations were considered part of the reason the NFL began adopting a tougher stance on the issue. Johnson was fined so often for his celebrations that he took out a sign during the game that read "Dear NFL, please don't fine me again!"

However, Johnson was only penalized twice for unsportsmanlike conduct during his tenure with the Bengals.