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The oldest coach in the NFL, 73-year-old Romeo Crennel, has been showing his Houston Texans players how to gyrate and get into the groove in the locker room after the team’s wins.
The interim coach has been putting on a show to music from a long-ago era when Crennel was growing up.
As the team gathers around him, he’s been moving and twisting to songs from faraway yesteryears such as:
Marvin’s Gaye’s all-time classics “Let’s Get It On” and “Sexual Healing”
“Love Train” by The O’Jays
And “ABC” by the Jackson Five
The players told Sammy Sportface by Zoom calls that they’re winning more often lately after dropping the first four games because they want to see Romeo strut, bump, and shimmying to a fro after the games from one locker to the next (he stops at the locker of every guy on the 48-man roster), into the training room, and through the toilet room.
Crennel became the team’s interim head coach earlier this season after the rough start.
“We’re motivated to win mostly to see Romeo dazzle us with his dynamic dancing after the games,” said defensive lineman J.J. Watt. “Romeo gets going and he won’t stop. We’ve tried to get him to tone it down after five or six songs but he keeps on dancing. He doesn’t give us any post-game pep talk or game balls or anything about when practice will start the following Monday. Romeo loses himself in these unforgettable and incomparable moments. The old man is feeling it.”
Crennel’s had a checkered NFL coaching career. As a head coach including stints with the Cleveland Browns is a less than stellar 28 wins and 55 losses. But he does sport five Super Bowl rings when he was an assistant coach with the New York Giants and New England Patriots.
“I’ve reached the stage in my life when any win is a big win and needs to be fully celebrated with all-out, uninhibited, off-the-hook dance moves from another era,” he said. “And it has to be music from the 60s, 70s, and 80s because that’s what really gets me moving like I need to be.”
While boogeying after last weekend’s victory, the coach sang a verse from the Sugar Hill Gang all-time classic “Rappers Delight” that kicked off a whole new genre of rap music.
Well, it’s on n on n on on n on
The beat don’t stop until the break of dawn
I said m-a-s, t-e-r, a g with a double e
I said I go by the unforgettable name of the man they call the Master Gee
Well, my name is known all over the world
By all the foxy ladies and the pretty girls
I’m goin down in history
As the baddest rapper there ever could be.
“I am the baddest rapper there ever will be,” said Crennel. “And on n on and on n on, the beat don’t stop until we win the Super Bowl.”
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