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Video: ‘Dabbing’ out of hand as Frank Beamer upper-cuts self, Les Miles just doesn’t care
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Go ahead and admit it: You’ve dabbed.
When your friends, co-workers and family are not looking, you’ve peeked into the mirror, stuck your nose in the crook of your elbow and mimicked a violent sneeze.
(We assume you know what it is by now. But for a good history of the latest internet dance craze, which originated in Atlanta, go here.)
It’s a fun, harmless dance. One that also requires very little in the way of rhythm or body control. Sure, it can be done well, but spastic versions can be executed by 2-year-olds and 90-year-olds alike.
Thus, it has become the go-to celebration dance first of players (sheek, trendy) and now of head football coaches (awkward, always in the middle of a circle of bodies).
“Dabbing” received at least two more installments Saturday.
Why these, you ask? What’s new? The enormity of the moment. Virginia Tech coach Frank Beamer added his version to the dabbing library after notching a sixth win at Virginia, earning a bowl game for his program during the final regular-season game of his career.
Beamer got outright silly in the locker room, cocking his hat sideways (how many times has that happened before?) and seemingly upper-cutting himself after a particularly violent rendition of the dance.
https://twitter.com/SBNationCFB/status/670715956998635520
LSU coach Les Miles, aware of the Beamer execution or not, seemed intent on relishing his victory against Texas A&M. Especially once he realized the school would be retaining him into 2016.
First he rode across the field on the shoulders of his players. Then he sang a very, very bad version of LSU’s alma mater. Finally, he boogied in the locker room, surrounded by the players he so loves to coach.
At first, Miles appeared to need encouragement from those players to “do it again.” But once his dabbing elicited a raucous reaction, the coach executed the move in rapid succession.
Did @LSUCoachMiles dab in the team room after the Tigers took down A&M? You know it. #DabOnEm pic.twitter.com/jdZ2JnomN8
— LSU Football (@LSUfootball) November 29, 2015
With that, we will be retiring the use of dabbing videos on Saturday Down South. (But we reserve the right to renege on that promise should Alabama coach Nick Saban partake, perhaps after some sort of championship.)
An itinerant journalist, Christopher has moved between states 11 times in seven years. Formally an injury-prone Division I 800-meter specialist, he now wanders the Rockies in search of high peaks.
