The Super Bowl Shuffle - Imitators and Influence

Imitators and Influence

No professional sports team has released a song that was an American hit on the scale of "The Super Bowl Shuffle". The success of "The Super Bowl Shuffle" initiated the following imitations:

• During 1985, the Kansas Wesleyan football team won a conference title in the NAIA. They made the "KCAC shuffle" and showed it on the local access channel for Salina, KS, Channel 6.

• During the 1985-86 season, the Boston College Men's Ice Hockey team recorded the "Beanpot Trot" prior to their participation in the famed Beanpot Tournament. The Eagles placed second, losing 4-1 to rival school Boston University in the championship game on February 10, 1986.

• On February 27, 1986, the Memphis Tigers Pom Squad performed the "Pom-Pom Shuffle" in their last home game of the season against New Orleans.

• The eventual 1987 World Champion Minnesota Twins released a video called "The Berenguer Boogie", gently teasing the relief pitcher they nicknamed "El Gasolino" for his victory celebration after striking out opposing batters.

• Soon after the 1986-87 NHL season, the Calgary Flames recorded a music video for the original song "Red Hot" for charity, which featured Flames players pretending to play instruments and lip-syncing to the song.

• Prior to the 1988 NCAA Division I-A football season, the preseason No. 1 Florida State Seminoles made a video known as the Seminole Rap, promising the school's first national championship would result from the season. They lost their first game to the rival Miami Hurricanes (the defending National Champions) 31-0. The Noles would finish the season 11-1 and ranked No. 3 in the nation, behind No. 1 Notre Dame and No. 2 Miami.

• Verne Gagne and his American Wrestling Association promoted a major event with a humorously bad song known as "The WrestleRock Rumble" that actually featured the geriatric Gagne rapping. Also for professional wrestling, the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling had a Super Bowl Shuffle-like song as part of its weekly program. Each wrestler's recorded part preceded the match that she was involved in. Even the referees were part of the tune.

• Da Superfans, a Chicago Bears fangroup, performed a parody version during 2007 to celebrate the Bears' return to the Super Bowl.

• Some of the cast of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Will Arnett and Horatio Sanz dressed as players of the Pro Bowl made a parody video called "The Pro Bowl Shuffle" about the Pro Bowl.

• On the 3rd Season premiere of the FX Television show The League one of the main characters did a parody of this with Maurice Jones-Drew, Brent Grimes and Sidney Rice entitled "The Shiva Bowl Shuffle" as a reference to their fantasy league's Super Bowl.