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00:00The game has to be played with emotion. The game should be fun.
00:04When you get in the end zone, you should be able to celebrate it. It's hard to get in the
00:08end zone.
00:15You can love them.
00:17Man, the name of the game is fun. It's why we watch.
00:21Or you can hate them.
00:22Getting a little uh, uh, uh on, you know, that makes me sick to my stomach.
00:26But our countdown sparked as much debate as any top 10 list.
00:32Chill!
00:33It's the hey look at me. I went out and I did my job.
00:37As much trash as Buchanan, Ray, I think his name is Ray Buchanan of the Falcons talked.
00:43Him being mad at the celebration is rich.
00:48And I gotta beat my chest. Pathetic.
00:50Every time somebody celebrates it's like a bunch of crotchety old men jump out of their chairs and scream get
00:55off my lawn.
00:55That is a disgusting act.
00:58Relax a little bit. Have some Metamucil, it's gonna be fun.
01:02Whether they were playfully silly, outrageously self-centered, or the symbol of a team's identity.
01:09If the celebration had people talking, we've got the popcorn ready.
01:15The number 10 end zone celebration of all time.
01:18The spike is way, that's way too low.
01:21Spike has to be higher, okay? This is a national institution.
01:28Spike at only number 10 for the longest time.
01:32This is the end zone celebration.
01:33Like a white shirt on a man, it never goes out of style.
01:36How can that spike be only 10 for 35, 40 years?
01:41It was the default celebration for the end zone.
01:44It's the forerunner. It's the originator.
01:46You can kick it up a little bit.
01:48It was kinda like, you gotta walk before you can run.
01:51Then number 45, Homer Jones enters the scene.
01:53Our number 10 end zone celebration took its first steps in 1965, when the Giants' Homer Jones spiked the ball.
02:05He couldn't afford to throw the footballs away.
02:07He wanted to throw them into the stands and said,
02:10They're kind of expensive, so I don't want to do that, I'm just gonna spike it.
02:13That's classic.
02:14And at the time, when you spiked the ball, people thought that was crazy.
02:18It's almost like your parents hated Elvis because he was new.
02:22I was disgusted.
02:24I was insulted.
02:26I was offended.
02:27I knew that the world was never gonna be the same, and the NFL was headed in a bad direction.
02:33We could do top 10 spikes.
02:35I mean, there are a variety of different spikes.
02:37There's obviously just the standard spike, the angry spike, the windmill spike, which is usually a variation of the angry
02:46spike.
02:47One of my favorite is the climactic spike, which would involve a player doing a dance with a spike.
02:53Michael Irvin was excellent at climactic spikes.
02:57Now the ones that are really cool are the ones that can spike it over the goal post.
03:01That's true athleticism.
03:02I love that.
03:03I like it when the big fat lineman picks up the fumble and runs in.
03:07It doesn't have a dance, doesn't have any kind of celebration.
03:09Just a simple...
03:11Another super-record creator to score.
03:14Mike Maidland game's biggest stars made it their number one celebration.
03:19Exactly.
03:20Walter Payton was always my favorite growing up, and Walter Payton used to do just gigantic windmill spikes in the
03:26end zone.
03:26That's old school, with just a fat spike just cranking.
03:31Earl Cooper, for the 49ers' first Super Bowl, scores a touchdown in that perfect left-handed spike jumping into the
03:38air.
03:39That's what it's all about.
03:41Tom Brady this year, 2010, in Pittsburgh, pissed off at the crowd.
03:47Boom!
03:48Point made.
03:49Terrell Davis.
03:50Oh!
03:51Look out!
03:51Goodbye, TD!
03:53Oh!
03:53The salute.
03:54Davis with the salute.
03:56And if you're a Bronco fan, feel free to salute him.
03:59While Terrell Davis and his mile-high salute didn't make our top ten end zone celebrations,
04:05it did become the symbol of the Broncos' run to their first Super Bowl championship.
04:11So the fans really got behind the mile-high salute, and it really turned into something that really spread,
04:18not just in Colorado, but throughout the country.
04:21Nearly a decade earlier.
04:23Hey!
04:24Hey!
04:25The number nine end zone celebration of all time.
04:28The Icky Shuffle.
04:30Yes.
04:31Personally, I'm in love with the Icky Shuffle.
04:32I would marry the Icky Shuffle.
04:34Nah, I thought the Icky Shuffle was corny.
04:38Your grandma says like the corniest guy on this list.
04:41I mean, he knows what he's talking about, but he's like the corniest guy on this list.
04:48When the show.
04:49He could pretty much do that, you know, with a walker.
04:52Awful.
04:53Awful.
04:53It was famous for no other reason than it was so bad.
04:58And Icky does a one, put a dance, and spikes the ball.
05:01It was horrible dancing.
05:03He would not make it to the dressing room on Dancing with the Stars.
05:07I would probably describe the Icky Shuffle as a cross between the Hokey Pokey, the Macarena,
05:13and the Humpty Dance.
05:14And I don't know where he came up with it.
05:16I don't know what he was drinking the day he came up with it.
05:19But it was a sensation throughout the 1988 season.
05:28In 1988, the hapless Bengals caught fire.
05:33As a rookie, our number nine selection led the team in rushing yards and touchdowns.
05:41Then helped Cincinnati reach Super Bowl XXIII.
05:45And off the Icky right side, touchdown!
05:49The Bengals have won the AFC Championship.
05:52We have been so used to the Bengals not being good, all of a sudden they were good.
05:57And...
05:59They made the Super Bowl, like, a few years earlier.
06:04Why is the Lions play-by-play announcer, why is the Lions anything talking about the Bengals?
06:09They've at least been to the Super Bowl.
06:11And I hate the Bengals.
06:13I have no reason to defend them here.
06:15But you have no luck to stand on it.
06:18And Icky brought some fun to it.
06:19He thrusted our offense and our football team onto the national stage.
06:27And I think for a team like Cincinnati,
06:30I think he gave us a little bit of Hollywood on our offense.
06:34I wish we could have got that performance in the Super Bowl from him.
06:37It would have helped finish the deal with him.
06:41Hey, Wilcox.
06:42It was you and the rest of the defense that blew that game.
06:44I don't want to hear that.
06:48Who's ahead of Icky Woods?
06:49I mean, that's crazy to me.
06:51Icky Woods.
06:51That's the greatest end zone dance of all time.
06:54Icky Woods was just a little too soft for me.
06:59I just thought that was cheesy.
07:01If you were to try to grade him in terms of aesthetics, it shouldn't even be on the list.
07:06But if you were to grade him on marketability, it should be much higher than number nine.
07:13I'll never forget opening up newspapers and magazines and literally seeing diagrams of how to dance the Icky Shuffle so
07:20everybody could go.
07:21And I can't dance, but even I could do the Icky Shuffle.
07:25Everybody did it.
07:26You did it.
07:28I did it.
07:29We're proud of it.
07:31Just go to a supermarket and pick out a bunch of random suburbanites and they would be able to dance
07:35better than Icky.
07:46What rights he had to celebrate?
07:48I don't care how good they were then.
07:50At the end of the day, he's still a Cincinnati Bengal.
07:52What?
07:56This is the season the Steelers finished 5-11 and got swept by the Bengals.
08:02Are you serious?
08:05That's...
08:05That's jock riding at his finest.
08:09In the Super Bowl, the Bengals returned to mediocrity.
08:12And when our number nine was in the end, his dance faded from the scene.
08:18Icky Shuffle is like a one-hit wonder from the 80s.
08:22That one's gotta go in the history books just for that because you gotta put your stamp somehow and that's
08:26how he did it with the Icky Shuffle.
08:27I bumped it into the top half of the top ten. I guess we gotta see what comes up next.
08:33The number eight end zone celebration of all time.
08:36The Dirty Bird.
08:39Love the Dirty Bird.
08:40Who doesn't love the Dirty Bird?
08:41I like the Dirty Bird.
08:42Come on.
08:42Didn't like it. Shouldn't be on this list.
08:44It looked like some budget rip-off of the electric slide.
08:48You know, something that my grandfather would do at a bar mitzvah.
08:54I mean, birds don't do this.
08:58It was one of the best dances ever for a team that, well, let's face it, wasn't very good for
09:02a very long time.
09:03Richard, what are you doing?
09:05Welcome to the Dirty South, baby!
09:08Like the 1988 Bulls, the 98 Falcons took flight for one magical year.
09:14The bird is the word.
09:16They soared to the Super Bowl on the wings of the Dirty Bird.
09:20A celebration that made our list when it brought a team and a town together.
09:26Yeah, sir.
09:28It caught the whole Falcon fan base.
09:31And that was the thing about the Icky Shuffle.
09:33For us in Cincinnati, everybody was doing the Icky Shuffle.
09:36And when you have the Dirty Bird, which is a part of your team's namesake, I think it's fantastic.
09:47I thought it was very creative.
09:49Thinking outside the box, I liked it.
09:51It's a new breed of birds, baby!
09:52The Dirty Bird was crucial for the Falcons because this was a team that, once Deion Sanders left, they had
09:57very little flair and almost no image.
10:00Let's show what Dirty Bird's all about. Here we go!
10:02The Dirty Bird helped put the Falcons' franchise on the map just before that franchise was ready to completely fall
10:08off the map.
10:09Dirty Birds are for real. You see, we're dancing, we're playing hard.
10:13Jamal Anderson has his Dirty Bird working.
10:15And Ray Buchanan has his nice, smooth Dirty Bird.
10:17And it's like so many different versions of it.
10:19All you have to make sure you do is that you act like a bird and you get some type
10:22of flap on it.
10:23If you get a flap on, you're doing some form of the bird.
10:27You know, my version was going to be the Dirty Old Man, but...
10:32Right, right! Give me a Dirty Bird!
10:36While our number eight end zone celebration was a hit for the Falcons...
10:41Whatever.
10:41...it didn't get much love...
10:45...outside of Atlanta...
10:46That's choreographed stage junk.
10:48And Lay always has...
10:49They have the chop, and then the frickin' Dirty Bird.
10:54It's lame.
10:55Seemed kinda juvenile.
10:56Boy, the more I get into this segment, the more and more I realize I don't like elaborate end zone
11:01celebrations.
11:02Ha ha ha.
11:06Touchdown!
11:07And he mocks the crowd with a Dirty Bird dance of his own.
11:11Despite their critics, our number eight Dirty Birds upset the highly favored Vikings in the NFC Championship.
11:19Touchdown Falcons!
11:20And here is the Dirty Bird dance, making his debut in the upper Midwest.
11:25The best Dirty Bird dance was the one after the 98 Championship game.
11:30To see Dan Reeves, the oldest, whitest, most uncoordinated, least likely guy to dance ever.
11:36But for him to smile and do the dance, I think that was a pretty special day for everybody in
11:41Atlanta.
11:42People wanna get down.
11:45Some of the best celebrations we've seen happen in the field of play.
11:49Not in the...
11:49The number seven end zone celebration of all time.
11:53Steve Smith.
11:54He has a lot of...
11:56Steve Smith of the Panthers was very creative with his touchdown celebrations.
12:01Yeah, he's doing a little Buccaneer pirate routine in the end zone.
12:04I won't deny Steve Smith had some good ones. He's great at it.
12:09With his small stature and big talent, Steve Smith and his end zone celebrations became the face of the Carolina
12:16Panthers.
12:18If you see this face again, that means I score often.
12:22Steve doing his little Hawaii All-Pro dance there at the end.
12:25Steve Smith is awesome. I love Steve Smith. I'll take that guy anytime. I think he's fun.
12:30Steve Smith has always been one of my favorites.
12:35Steve Smith.
12:37Carolina Ace.
12:39I don't even remember.
12:42That speaks for itself.
12:44Steve Smith had a dance.
12:45And what are his?
12:47Does anybody know what Steve Smith's dance was?
12:50No. No, I can't.
12:53I cannot remember a dance by Steve Smith.
12:57Steve, you didn't give us a memorable dance, my friend.
13:02To me, it should be a lot higher. I mean, he had moves.
13:05Most people have a Steve Smith celebration that brings a smile to their face.
13:10The baby with a diaper.
13:12Steve Smith just changed the diaper on the football in the end zone.
13:16If you've ever wiped a baby's bottom, it is the one thing you would not want to do ever again.
13:22It's a chore. It's horrible. It stinks.
13:24I've got to put this tile away.
13:26It's a stinky knife.
13:28One of the gutsiest celebrations I've ever seen is Steve Smith jumping into the Soldier Fuel goalpost.
13:34He gets to the pole and he goes, whoo, and slides down. It was awesome. It was the best one
13:40ever.
13:40Bear hugs. The goalposts are something.
13:43I think it was sliding down the fire pole.
13:45And he threw the pole and there's a cameraman.
13:47I think the best one, by far, and why he should be on this list, though, is the rowboat.
13:52He's rowing the boat down there.
13:54He sat down and he acts like he rowed the boat.
13:57You have to know a little bit of what was going on in the NFL at that time.
14:00The Vikings had just had the love boat scandal, and Steve Smith scores a touchdown against Minnesota.
14:06Smith is there, caught! 15 to the 10, scrambles toward the end zone!
14:10He got in the end zone and started doing his rowing routine, which, of course, pissed off Vikings fans.
14:15The boat rowing could have something to do with a Vikings party on two boats on Lake Minnetonka.
14:22The rowboat one, to me, is a top five celebration.
14:27I feel like Steve Smith sort of set the ground for Chad Johnson to come later.
14:33Steve Smith was a genius at the end zone celebration.
14:37Steve was thinking outside the box.
14:39Who's gonna think about doing canoeing or sword fighting when you do an end zone celebration?
14:43It's like one guy is just taking over this hundred-yard piece of land out here, and he's just making
14:47his own little personal playground out of it.
14:49Steve Smith's great. I mean, he's gotten good at it.
14:52Isn't that the icky shuffle? The dirty bird?
14:55Here is the dirty bird dance!
14:56This is thought. You can see the guy trying to put some things together.
14:59For creative celebration of all time, Billy White Shoes Johnson.
15:04Anybody who doesn't like the end zone celebration, I say to them, I said, what's wrong with Billy White Shoes
15:09Johnson?
15:10What is wrong with a man standing in an end zone and knocking his knees together repeatedly?
15:14If you're gonna give me end zone celebrations, White Shoes Johnson was the best.
15:17I mean, you know, that's pretty good what he could do with the, you know, with the legs like that,
15:21you know.
15:21There are certain guys that did it way better than others.
15:24I thought he was maybe the best of all time.
15:27Was there anything better than watching that guy bust off his thing where he just started doing his little, he
15:32had it all going.
15:33That was like the greatest thing ever.
15:36He was the original. He started it.
15:40Before White Shoes revolutionized the end zone celebration in the big 70s, the scene was dull and boring.
15:47He was the first guy who made celebrations fun in the end zone.
15:53He could fit into today's modern day celebration. You know he would come up with something amazing.
15:57I mean, he was Chad Johnson before Chad Johnson.
16:01What y'all talking about? Y'all talking about me?
16:03Growing up at that time, you learned how to do the whole Billy White Shoes Johnson thing.
16:08He is the George Halas of end zone celebrations.
16:11He put celebrations on the map.
16:15He was an exciting, exciting football player.
16:18How's it? How's it? How's it? How's it? How's it?
16:23His quick score potential kept defenses wobbling from his rubber legs routine.
16:29The theory was if he run it back on you, he was going to do the funky chicken and dance
16:33in the end zone.
16:34Your goal as a football team was not for him to dance.
16:39His on-field performances are equaled only by his end zone curtain calls.
16:43It's just a matter of letting you know I'm here and I'm going to do it every time.
16:47With the celebration, he didn't, he didn't, he didn't waste any time.
16:51He didn't walk up and flex and then dance.
16:54He went into the end zone, confirmed it with a touchdown, confirmed the ref did this, and he just got
17:00right to the dance.
17:01He didn't waste any time.
17:05Get in here, so no matter what you do to try and prevent it, this is what you can expect
17:09it.
17:09As an end result of me scoring.
17:11There was a play, 49ers-Falcons at Fulton County Stadium.
17:19The Hail Mary, end of the game, it was one of these balls that seemed like it was tipped by
17:23everybody on the field
17:24and fell right into the arms of Billy White Shoes Johnson.
17:26And it is pulled out by Billy Johnson!
17:28Johnson inside the 10-5!
17:30He's in!
17:31And he got up and did the dance, and as a 49er fan, it really bugged me.
17:36But it was ultimately entertaining, and it won the game, and so it was the ultimate show of satisfaction.
17:41Touchdown!
17:42He probably was for the end zone.
17:48Being the originator of the end zone celebration, we thought we'd get White Shoes' thoughts on our list so far.
17:55I think a spike is good. It doesn't take long. It really accentuates what a guy has done.
18:01I guess Icky was showing that he had quick feet and good feet.
18:03It was okay. It wasn't a White Shoes, but it was all right.
18:06When a coach like Dan B, you know people love that.
18:13That's for him.
18:14While some think White Shoes is the best, his place on our list is still up for debate.
18:20Number six, Billy White Shoes Johnson, come on, that should be number one.
18:24When I look at my touchdown celebrations, I want Billy White Shoes Johnson.
18:28I don't even remember what he did.
18:29For groundbreaking status, he might be number one.
18:33I don't even remember what he did, what he didn't.
18:35Billy White Shoes Johnson was one of the original end zone choreographers,
18:40and to my mind, still the best.
18:42I guess I missed the revolution.
18:44To me, that should be much higher up this list.
18:47And now, the number five end zone celebration of all time, the Fun Bunch.
18:52The Fun Bunch was really good.
18:56Hated the Fun Bunch.
18:57I don't know that I could possibly begin to describe how much I hate the Fun Bunch.
19:02Choreographed, predetermined, preordained, stupid.
19:04Here comes the Fun Bunch in the end zone.
19:07I think at the time, there was individual end zone celebrations.
19:12Billy White Shoes Johnson was doing his thing.
19:14Drew Pearson was doing his thing.
19:16But there was never really a team end zone celebration.
19:19Look at this. They're swinging their arms.
19:20Oh, a volleyball high five.
19:22I think that is something that sets the Fun Bunch apart from everybody else.
19:26That should not be number five.
19:27Bunch of guys jumping in a circle and doing...
19:29That was lame.
19:34The 1980s Redskins had the Hogs...
19:40And they had the Smurfs...
19:42The Smurf!
19:43Virgil!
19:44You know, it's amazing.
19:45Virgil's the smallest guy on the ball club.
19:46He's the only guy sitting down watching the game.
19:48But it's the Fun Bunch that had a lasting legacy on the NFL.
19:53We were the ones that sort of, I guess you could say, ruined it for everybody else
19:57because we didn't have two guys celebrating. We had seven.
20:00When the league started penalizing excessive celebration based on the Fun Bunch,
20:04it's understandable that we would suddenly call the NFL the No Funly
20:08because you're banning something with the title Fun in it.
20:11What happened to the more the merrier?
20:13Bring everybody to the party?
20:14You can't have a party with one guy.
20:15That's not a party. That's just one guy.
20:21Absolutely freaking hated the Fun Bunch.
20:24I mean, just including the Nate...
20:26The Fun Bunch.
20:26Oh, the Fun Bunch is here.
20:28It just was so...
20:30Yeah.
20:31Great celebration, but completely overrated.
20:33Way too high on this list.
20:35It wasn't even choreographed well enough to get everybody to actually connect on a high five.
20:39Watch this again.
20:40There's like two guys out of seven that actually connect on the high five.
20:44You actually need flesh to flesh contact within the Fun Bunch for the majority of the hands for this to
20:51be this high enough.
20:54The one I remember is when the Cowboys, they did it at Texas Stadium.
20:58The Cowboys tried to break it up.
20:59It was sundown in Texas Stadium, and there was room for only one team at the top of the NFC
21:05East.
21:07And somebody from the Cowboys went to break it up.
21:10Downs and Thurman didn't break up our celebration.
21:13We continued to jump.
21:15I guess we just jumped over them.
21:16That kind of took that rivalry to a whole new step where they said, hey, you're not going to do
21:20that in our house.
21:21The Redskins had no intentions of letting anyone stand in the way of their Fun Bunch.
21:30The Fun Bunch is an iconic part of the heyday Redskins.
21:34Growing up a Redskin fan, I can tell you this.
21:37There was nobody that at some point during that era didn't do that once or twice.
21:42It was just good fun.
21:44It was fun.
21:45It was cool.
21:46It should be in the top two or three.
21:47Here comes the Fun Bunch in the end zone.
21:51Number four end zone celebration of all time, Chad Ochocinco.
21:56If you're just adding up creativity and different end zone celebrations, I don't think anyone beats Chad Johnson.
22:06You were really good there for a while, and then you just jumped the gun.
22:09It was almost like he made himself jump the shark.
22:12I like when Ochocinco scores touchdowns because you know he's got something planned.
22:17If I get an end zone, make sure you keep the camera on me.
22:19The camera always seems to find Chad Ochocinco, something that has endeared some and enraged others.
22:27When he threw that Hall of Fame jacket on, I thought that was one of the best celebrations I've ever
22:31seen.
22:31I thought it was classless and tasteless that Chad Johnson would put on a Hall of Fame yellow jacket while
22:36he was still playing.
22:39Geez.
22:40The 05 season, I mean not only was that a playoff season for the Bengals.
22:44It is playoff time!
22:45Who did, baby?
22:46How about that?
22:46But it was a playoff season and what he did in terms of end zone celebrations.
22:50I got a great celebration with you guys again.
22:53This is what you see the next one.
22:54Putting, the football is pretty classic.
22:57Looks like he's got a putt in front of him!
23:00And sinks it!
23:01I particularly like when he...
23:03Chad Johnson trying to pump air into the ball.
23:07One of Johnson's best celebrations is the proposal to the cheerleader.
23:12Chad Johnson got on a knee like he was proposing to Daphne.
23:15I don't know if Daphne accepted or not.
23:20In a season full of over-the-top celebrations, one stood out above the rest.
23:27The river dance alone should be the...
23:30It should be the top end zone celebration of all time.
23:33Just looking at it, it's like you can hear Irish fiddles playing in the background.
23:39I'm a sucker for the river dance.
23:41I thought he did it pretty well.
23:42It showed culture.
23:43It showed class.
23:44It showed that maybe he could even join the ballet.
23:47I don't know what kind of celebration we have going on here,
23:49but this is a real choreographed deal with Chad.
23:52I think if it wasn't for the river dance,
23:54Chad might not have gotten on Dancing with the Stars.
24:01While 2005's celebrations put Chad on the map,
24:03it's one that he didn't do that some will remember.
24:07That was the year in Detroit where the Bengals came to town,
24:10and he caught a touchdown pass.
24:12Touchdown Chad Johnson!
24:14And everybody was expecting Ocho Senko to do something really big.
24:17What's the celebration?
24:18He ended up just going off the field with no celebration.
24:20Hands the ball to the official and the fans, boom!
24:24He's so different.
24:27If the guy, Samuelson guy, or Dan Miller or something like that,
24:32play-by-play announcer for the Lions,
24:34wanted to talk about other teams, the Bengals in general,
24:38the Bengals didn't even find it necessary to celebrate on the Lions
24:42because everybody scores on the Lions.
24:45That should tell you enough about the Lions.
24:51The point is a football fan.
24:55I guarantee you, every Sunday, people will tune in just to see if Chad Johnson scored this week.
25:01I'm going to give you your money's worth before I leave the day!
25:04Nobody has shown more creativity in celebrations in the history of the National Football League than Ocho Senko.
25:14Chad Johnson's end zone celebrations have kind of the career arc of Madonna.
25:19At the beginning, Pioneer looked like a surefire Hall of Famer for end zone celebrations.
25:26And now, I think we're on the back nine for his end zone celebrations.
25:30Chad, please!
25:31Chad, please!
25:33California Quake!
25:34Ow!
25:35Some celebrations.
25:36End zone celebrations of all time.
25:38The Lambeau League.
25:40Yes!
25:41I think the Lambeau League should be number one on the list.
25:43You talk about breaking down the walls between fans and players, I mean, that's it.
25:49Sharing that moment with the fans, that's as cool as it gets.
25:53How can you deny that it's arguably the best celebration in all of sports?
25:57Jimmy's out there!
25:58Over the show!
25:59It's down!
26:01It deserves a number one rating.
26:03Because it's a selfless celebration.
26:05It's one that draws in the fans in that college atmosphere that is Lambeau Field.
26:13Rogers with protection.
26:14Drills the middle of the end zone.
26:16Wow!
26:17You go, and you see the guy jump into the crowd, and you say, Lambeau League.
26:21You don't say, like, I don't know, Jacksonville Jump, right?
26:24I mean, it's the Lambeau League.
26:26Forget about that.
26:26No other team can do that.
26:27This ain't no disco!
26:29No!
26:34I like Lambeau League right up to number one.
26:38It's just so Packers.
26:40It's just so Green Bay.
26:43That's a very Midwestern feeling.
26:45They all raise barns together, right?
26:47Don't they do that in the Midwest?
26:48So they celebrate together, too.
26:49That's the way we play football in Green Bay, Wisconsin!
26:53That's a good thing.
26:54While the Packers helped start the NFL in 1921, the Lambeau League didn't appear for another
27:0072 years.
27:02Leroy Butler was the one who actually created the Lambeau League.
27:06Knocked down with a 38-yard fumble.
27:08Do the Packers have the ball?
27:10Apparently they do!
27:11It's ironic because that was a game Green Bay clinches a playoff berth for the first time
27:16since 72.
27:18It is a touchdown for Leroy Butler!
27:21It's almost like the Lambeau League is synonymous with the rebirth of the Packer organization.
27:28I think it's the best end zone celebration ever.
27:31I mean, I have a call one time, I think a fan dropped a drizzle of beer in my mouth
27:35when
27:35I jumped into the stands.
27:36For the past two decades, many Packers have attempted our number three end zone celebration
27:43with different degrees of success.
27:46You see my Lambeau League, how bad it was?
27:48Robert Brooks made it the household name because he would elevate so effortlessly after
27:54a touchdown.
27:58The really good ones would jump, use one hand and pivot, and end up sitting on the top
28:04of the stands.
28:05He rolls to the right, looking for a touchdown to William Henderson!
28:09My first Lambeau League, I remember scoring and I made a mad dash for the stands.
28:14Adrenaline lifted me up and set me on top of the wall.
28:17I did the flashy one.
28:19There was bad ones.
28:21Gabe Wilkins, freakish play.
28:23He hurtled a guy to get down.
28:25Oh!
28:25But by the time he got to the end zone, he was gassed.
28:29And he still tried to go for it.
28:31That takes a lot out of you.
28:33That's real stinky.
28:34Don't do that.
28:35Don't do that.
28:36At least he scored.
28:38Jason Hunter, 54 yards!
28:41Whether it was defensive rumblers or star quarterbacks, just about every Packer who scored tried our number
28:48three celebration.
28:49Here we go, the Lambeau League.
28:52Brett Favre only made one attempt in his 16 seasons with the team.
28:56How?
28:57Rodgers takes quarterback stick.
28:58He would be packed.
29:00But when Aaron Rodgers took over the reins from number four, he made our number three
29:05celebration his number one priority.
29:09A South End Zone celebration!
29:11If you score, and you're wearing the G on your helmet, and you jump up into the stands,
29:16I think that's a pretty cool part of the NFL.
29:18Most of these things are celebrations of ego, of a player thumping their own chest and being
29:23excited for themselves.
29:24The Lambeau League is about a home team celebrating a touchdown in front of the home fans.
29:29That's why, to me, it's one of the great ones out there.
29:33In 2003 against the Giants, the Saints' Joe Horn dialed up a controversial celebration.
29:39My biggest issue with the End Zone celebration list, and it's not on there.
29:43I thought Joe Horn's cell phone one was as creative as we saw it.
29:46Flag has been thrown.
29:48What happened was Joe Horn had a cellular phone hidden underneath the padding that goes
29:53around the goal post.
29:54He went and got in the phone and pretended like he was making a phone call to somebody.
29:58Guy's a pretty good receiver, but that's a celebration of all time.
30:02T.O.
30:02T.O.
30:02When it comes to the Hollywood aspect, the pizzazz of the End Zone celebrations, T.O has no peer.
30:10T.O.
30:10It's just me!
30:11The man is not a winner, he is just an attention whore.
30:14He is a disgusting example of pro football at its very worst.
30:18T.O.
30:19I like it when they talk dirty, tell me!
30:21T.O.
30:21Any way you slice it, that guy's a Hall of Famer.
30:23T.O.
30:24I'm in a league of my own, man, he's ready for me!
30:26T.O.
30:26All orchestrated and all about T.O.
30:28Joyless exercise in self-promotion.
30:32They still know they hate me.
30:36Whatever.
30:37All I want to know is if you got your popcorn ready.
30:40It's like being in the movies.
30:41Do you got your popcorn ready?
30:43You get your popcorn right before you go in.
30:45So I was just asking, like, hey, Stu, you got your popcorn ready?
30:47Because it's going to be a show today.
30:49In a career that spanned a number of different teams,
30:52our number two selection put on a show that both entertained and infuriated.
30:58Oh, I think he's a lunatic.
31:00I would prefer he didn't do any of that stuff
31:02because I think there are situations where it winds up hurting you.
31:05I can't stand myself.
31:07T.O. looks for acceptance.
31:09The insecurity of T.O., people accept him more
31:13when he goes through all that nonsense in the end zone.
31:16Look, you've got to find ways to pump yourself up.
31:18You've got to find ways to dangle a cow to keep yourself going in this game.
31:21This is what made T.O. a great player.
31:24He fought long and hard about what he would do in an end zone celebration,
31:27which meant he fought long and hard about being in the end zone.
31:30Exactly.
31:31You've got to give T.O. his props.
31:32Wildly annoying, totally petulant, but makes great end zone celebrations.
31:40And how can someone you even love today are A to love?
31:44I know you don't want me to shine, but I'm going to shine anyway
31:46because I love me for me.
31:49Believe it.
31:50The end zone.
31:51Our number two end zone celebrator generated more debate
31:55than anyone else on our list.
32:00So here's his top four moments that drew both cheers and years.
32:06Oh, my goodness.
32:07He did not just take the pom-pom.
32:10That's grabbing the pom-pom and cheerleading.
32:13Who doesn't laugh when you see that?
32:14Plus, Terrell might have been exploring some parts of his personality we didn't know.
32:18He completes it to Terrell Owens.
32:20Prykes a taco at the five.
32:22The Ray Lewis imitation was the best.
32:24Terrell Owens now doing the Ray Lewis dance.
32:28He reaches down, grabs some turf.
32:30He's doing Ray Lewis' dance in his face.
32:34I thought it was one of the more disrespectful things I've ever seen.
32:37And I also thought it was very brave.
32:41When you mock arguably the toughest guy in the NFL, you've got some stones.
32:47Well, hey, my team should have stopped him.
32:51My team should have stopped him.
32:53Terrell Owens, catch right, Parker, fire pattern, touchdown.
32:56Standing on the star, I think everybody remembers that scene.
32:59He's going to the star.
33:01He's going to the star.
33:02You can't show your opponent up.
33:04You're just asking to get blistered, and blistered he did.
33:07And George's team loves it.
33:08Getting clocked in midfield, that was the best part of that celebration to me.
33:12I mean, it was.
33:13I mean, I've watched that a thousand times.
33:15And when you literally have to go 50 yards out of your way to celebrate a touchdown,
33:20you've got to call a shrinker, a good therapist, and sit down and work some of this stuff out.
33:26Garcia, going deep.
33:28Owens on this side.
33:29Adjustments to catch.
33:30Owens, he's selling the ball.
33:31Owens did the Sharpie celebration with such swagger.
33:35What is, is that a man?
33:36Yeah, he had a man in his sock, and he pulled it out and autographed the ball.
33:43I was like, this is in the great tradition of American showmen, like P.T. Barna.
33:47That's a first.
33:48Who would even think of that?
33:49I said, this is something Babe Ruth would have done.
33:51The grand show, the grand gesture.
33:53That is union.
33:55Sharpie, pom-poms, popcorn.
33:58I mean, T.O. just keeps spinning the hex, man.
34:01You know, at the end of the day, T.O. had a great career.
34:05And the celebrations were part of a great career.
34:10And now, the number one in zone celebration of all time, Barry Sanders.
34:17It's a crock that Barry Sanders is number one on this list.
34:21Oh, that's so lame.
34:21That's number one?
34:23That is so lame.
34:24Although I can appreciate celebrations, here's a guy who was class all the way, and he expected
34:30to score on you.
34:31That's why he wasn't celebrating.
34:32I think that is an even more attractive option than a guy trying to come up with some elaborate
34:37plan.
34:38That's the way it should be, in my opinion.
34:40That's football.
34:41That's what our grandfathers and fathers taught us growing up as a kid.
34:45Touchdown!
34:46Barry Sanders!
34:48What a sight!
34:49I mean, the hand the ball to the referee thing, whatever, is this Pop Warner?
34:52That's the most boring thing in history.
34:55Here, here, ref, take the ball.
34:56He scored a touchdown.
34:58Celebrate.
34:58You gotta do better than just handing it to the ref.
35:00After, as electrifying as you are on the field, come on, come on.
35:03You know you're gonna do it again when you hand the ball to the official and you just
35:07run back to the sidelines.
35:08Because that's what it communicated.
35:09Just pure confidence that he'd be there again.
35:12Oh!
35:12Lay it back while he's done it again.
35:18Barry's lack of an attention-grabbing touchdown celebration mirrored his stoic personality.
35:24That signified what Barry Sanders was all about.
35:28He wasn't a showboat.
35:30He never wanted to attract the attention of the cameras, the media.
35:35It was just his way, once again, of not doing it himself.
35:39His attention that he brought to himself happened when he had the football in his hands.
35:45He was dancing before he got to the end zone.
35:47His and his own celebration started when he touched the rock when the quarterback gave
35:50it to him.
35:51All that dancing that he did, he didn't have enough energy to dance when he got in the
35:55end zone.
35:56Barry just cut inside, cut outside, cut inside, and then used his speed to outrun him into
36:03the end zone.
36:04Barry to the 15, to the 10, 5, touchdown!
36:09What an incredible run by the best back of the National Football League.
36:13What Barry's professionalism proved is that it's more about getting to the end zone than
36:18what you do when you get there.
36:20The 10, 5, touchdown!
36:24Barry to the 45, and bumps to the 40, breaks it 35, 30, he's gone!
36:30Unbelievable!
36:31Touchdown, Ryan Barry Sanders!
36:34Wow!
36:35It's the greatest running back in the National Football League today, and it's one of the
36:38greatest I've been in a long, long time.
36:42After going from sideline to sideline and disappearing, one seems to get exhausted, and so I don't
36:48have the energy to dance, and plus I don't have that kind of rhythm.
36:51Barry Sanders with a move that Mikhail Baryshnikov could play.
36:56He just heard from the horse's mouth.
36:59It's so unusual to see players do like Barry Sanders, toss the ball to the ref.
37:05I gotta figure out my dance.
37:06I gotta show the world when I get in the end zone.
37:08Well, I tend to like the guys who act like they've been there before.
37:12Earl Campbell did that.
37:13A lot of great running backs do it.
37:15Guys like Franco Harris, here's the ball.
37:18And guys like Larry Zonka, here's the ball.
37:20Touchdown, Larry Zonka!
37:22It's become the rarest thing in sports, and particularly in the NFL, the idea that you show
37:27a little bit of class on the field, that you act like you've been there before.
37:32There's something to be said for that.
37:34Larry turns as soon as he catches it and gives him the ball.
37:37We've seen all the, you know, Joe Horn on his cell phone, and Ocho Cinco, and what he's
37:42done, and the fun punch with the Redskins when those guys would jump up and do their
37:45thing in the end zone.
37:46But give me the guy that goes in the end zone and just turns around and say, yeah, I've
37:52been here before.
37:52Give me that guy.
37:56That's all you could come up with?
37:57Hand it to the ref?
37:58To me, that's not a touchdown celebration.
38:00That shouldn't even be on the list.
38:01You have been there before, but that doesn't mean...
38:04You've been there so many times that you can come up with something better than that.
38:07Shame on you for catering to every 70-year-old out there who's like, now that's the way
38:12it's done.
38:13Act like you've been there before, sonny.
38:16Ha ha ha.
38:19Despite some naysayers, most agree that Barry Sanders is the right choice at number one.
38:27Thank goodness you guys put Barry at the top of this list.
38:31I'm glad Barry stuck it to the rest of the divas of the NFL.
38:34Yeah, I've been here before.
38:35I've scored like 3,000 of these.
38:37Here's your football.
38:38Only Barry Sanders.
38:40You got this one right.
38:41No question.
38:42He's the best!
38:43He's the best!
38:45Barry Sanders.
38:46Just another day.
38:48Here, you need this?
38:49Go ahead, kick the extra point.
38:50I'm heading back to the sideline.
38:51When you look at Barry Sanders, do the amazing thing.
38:55Sometimes you just gotta say, wow.
38:58Brilliant!
38:59What a sight!
39:00That is absolutely the best celebration, bar none.
39:03I can't question that.
39:04That's number one for sure.
39:05No way!
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