Some football dances stand the test of time: The Ickey Shuffle. Deion Sanders‘ high steps. Some don’t. Such is the legacy of former Atlanta Falcons back Jamal Anderson who popularized ‘The Dirty Bird’ during the 1998 Super Bowl season. Flash forward a decade and Anderson’s still around, but his dance is a mockery and things start to get depressing.
That’s Anderson, above, partying as is wont to happen in those classic Drunken Athlete photos. The story goes: “We ran into Jamal Anderson at a bar in Atlanta. He ended up buying us 8 rounds of shots and then passing out on the bar.” We come not to praise but to bury the Dirty Bird, after the jump.
This is just too sad. Said the anonymous photographer: “The last photo is of my friends doing the “Dirty Bird” over his body right before he fell onto the bar floor and had to be escorted out.” There’s something very uncomfortable about this photo.
Can’t say I blame him when that’s what his public life apparently has become. Please, for Anderson’s sake, let’s end his misery and pretend the Dirty Bird never happened. I hate seeing him like this.
(Photographic images on loan from the DRUNK ATHLETE collection.)
4:05 pm on September 5th, 2008
Dude buys you 8 shots and then you send pics mocking him? Not so cool.
4:30 pm on September 5th, 2008
Chris is right. You dudes are a bunch of d-bags. You can’t tell, it’s guy code. Good talk, see you out there.
6:10 pm on September 5th, 2008
Good thing there weren’t any chicks around to date rape.
6:13 pm on September 5th, 2008
totally agree with chris and tom. you guys are clowns. he talked to you guys and bought you drinks, then you try to clown him?
6:22 pm on September 5th, 2008
Im with you 3, you gotta be pretty low to Bash on sombody who bothers to talk to them dipsh*ts and then go ahead and buy them drinks. Losers
8:10 pm on September 5th, 2008
I guarantee the bartender didn’t enjoy him as much as these dudes did. I’ve served him several times in Salt Lake (University of Utah) in the last couple years, and he doesn’t know how to tip. But the drunk think is a regular occurrence.
8:46 pm on September 5th, 2008
Agreed, you are a bunch of d-bags.
9:13 pm on September 5th, 2008
Buncha jock sniffers. Scarfing down shots, then busting on a dude… typical.
5:10 pm on September 11th, 2008
First off all, this is so bush league for SportsbyBrooks to cover….I can’t believe you are even reporting something like this….those guys are clearly jackasses like most of these post have already said!
I am also a bartender, but in Atlanta. We see Jamal every now and again, and he is always the COOLEST guy, and he DOES TIP WELL. I guess the only reason I bothered to post anything is because we get a lot of athletes, and most of them are ARRONGANT, snobbish, Dicks…..Jamal has always been a nice guy to everybody at my job.
What Losers get free drinks and then try to embarrass him? No class, not real men!
Lance
7:16 pm on February 18th, 2009
Let's face facts people:1) Jamal Anderson — awesome QB, yes, but with that burden comes a desire to follow what us in the Sports Agenting business call "The Spirit in the Woods" — that is, an effeminate lady sprite who dances inside your retinae and also lets you know each passing play the other team is going to do the night before the big game. In order to catch this spryte, you either need to throw back eight to ten shots of Grand Marnier ("Grandma" to those in the know), snort cocaine (stepped on and cut with at least three different types of baby laxative), or, in the most extreme cases, drink the semen of a white male in his early 20's.2) I don't necessarily think you can judge the guys in these photos as "losers" or "douchebags". I mean, there's a couple fattsies who could stand to get reacquainted with Gold's Gym, but in the case of the top picture, that blondie in the Queensbridge sweater looks like he knows how to have a good tyme.Namaste,Theremin