When a football coach is a former lead dancer for the MC Hammer hip hop music group, anything can happen. A scrimmage of the San Jose State’s football team during spring training was accompanied by music, but when the DJ played one of the group’s hit songs, “U Can’t Touch This”, the running backs coach Alonzo Carter showed off some of his old dance moves. They were captured on video and were a big hit on YouTube.

Actually, incorporating dancing into training of running can pay big dividends. Cornell University once sent a couple of their clumsier running backs to a ballet teacher in Ithaca, NY. She worked with them and she and the coach were pleasantly surprised when one of them executed a “Grand Jete” over a defender for extra yardage.