The Reason for Watt's Sack Dance Yesterday What appeared to be a departure from his usual sack celebration meant a lot more to Texans defensive end J.J. Watt on Sunday. It was a nod to the Berry children, with whom Watt has grown close. “I was eating dinner at their house on Friday night,” Watt said. “They said they’re going to be watching the game. They said give us a signal. I said OK, when I get a sack, I’ll do the wheelchair.” Willa, Aaron and Peter Berry were orphaned July 2, 2011, when a head-on collision on U.S. 285 killed their parents. The accident severely injured Willa, who was then 6, and paralyzed Aaron, then 8, and Peter, then 9, from the waist down. The children’s story caught the attention of people and organizations locally and nationally. They got visits from athletes and donations from teams and other celebrities. Watt befriended the children beyond the occasional fundraiser. He played wheelchair basketball with them last week, which gave him the idea for the post-sack celebration. It’s not the first time Watt — who normally salutes after sacks — has promised a sack celebration to someone. Last weekend before the Texans’ Sunday night game in Chicago, Watt told Blake Geoffrion of the Montreal Canadiens he had a special sack celebration planned in his honor. Geoffrion, who, like Watt, went to Wisconsin, fractured his skull a few days prior. The first tweet he sent after the injury and a subsequent surgery was about his conversation with Watt the day the Texans played the Bears. But his game against the Bears was rare in that Watt did not record a sack. Sunday he got one, making that 111/2 this season. And he was ready. “That was the wheelchair,” Watt said. “Apparently people are saying it’s a dance.”
Yeah... I suspected something was up when he was dancing in a game where the team was down 14 in the fourth quarter. If you go back and read the game thread, he was being called out for it.... hopefully those people realize what he was trying to do. I like the fact that his "sack dances" are basically going to be mini-tributes/call-outs almost every game (the discount double-check and clay matthews dance agains the Packers, he had one prepared for the Bears game that he didn't get a sack in, yesterday... hell if he played the Texans, he would likely do the "namaste").
I was wondering, good for him that it was a tribute or whatever but man, that sack dance was terrible!
Great story. Sack dance is nice and all. Better that he is spending time with these kids and helping them enjoy life as much as possible.
That dance JJ was talking about is called the cat daddy. Ayyye! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPu4BbB4StI
Check out the front page of the drudge report trying to milk some controversy out of Watt's celebration.
