Monday, September 08, 2003
How to do the Dirty Bird dance
from SportsJones
In the ‘80s, Atlanta hosted the second coming of Billy "White Shoes" Johnson and his multifarious gyrations, punctuated by his trademark split-spike. And, though it’s just a sad memory now, the late Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium was also the 2-legit-2-quit house of "Neon" Deion "Prime Time" Sanders and his sideways "Neon Shuffle."
The great, or perhaps unfortunate, thing about "The Dirty Bird" is that, like "The Macerena" and "The Hoky Poky," almost all of us can do it. Few of us have White Shoes’s cheerleader-esque flexibility or Neon Deion’s unique joint structure and sense of rhythm, but most people can hop up and down and flap their arms.
-Hop to the right with your elbows raised;
-Hop to the left and jerk your right elbow down, as if pulling on something;
-Hop to the right and extend your right elbow away from your body;
-Hop to the left and jerk your left elbow down, as if pulling on something;
-Hop to the right and extend your left elbow away from your body;
-Your elbows should be back into their original raised position – now flap your wings as a bird might, and at the same time hop back and forth until you are tired.
¶ 9/08/2003 11:07:00 AM 
In the ‘80s, Atlanta hosted the second coming of Billy "White Shoes" Johnson and his multifarious gyrations, punctuated by his trademark split-spike. And, though it’s just a sad memory now, the late Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium was also the 2-legit-2-quit house of "Neon" Deion "Prime Time" Sanders and his sideways "Neon Shuffle."
The great, or perhaps unfortunate, thing about "The Dirty Bird" is that, like "The Macerena" and "The Hoky Poky," almost all of us can do it. Few of us have White Shoes’s cheerleader-esque flexibility or Neon Deion’s unique joint structure and sense of rhythm, but most people can hop up and down and flap their arms.
-Hop to the right with your elbows raised;
-Hop to the left and jerk your right elbow down, as if pulling on something;
-Hop to the right and extend your right elbow away from your body;
-Hop to the left and jerk your left elbow down, as if pulling on something;
-Hop to the right and extend your left elbow away from your body;
-Your elbows should be back into their original raised position – now flap your wings as a bird might, and at the same time hop back and forth until you are tired.
¶ 9/08/2003 11:07:00 AM
