Earlier this year, Broncos linebacker Von Miller drew a fine for a hip-thrusting sack-celebration homage to a Key & Peele routine in which two pelvic thrusts were permissible but three pumps resulted in a penalty.
Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett told reporters on Wednesday that Bennett has tried to ensure that his own similar sack celebration won’t trigger a flag or a fine.
“My friend Von got fined because he did three pumps, and I don’t know, but three pumps is illegal,” Bennett said. “I only usually do two pumps, but Pete [Carroll] made sure that I know that Von got fined for doing three pumps, so I’m just trying to keep it at one and a half pumps.”
So why is one-and-a-half pumps OK?
“I don’t know,” Bennett said. “You can have a baby on one pump, from what I hear.”
Apart from the fact that -- as Jordan Peele noted on Twitter -- Miller didn’t even do three pumps and was still fined, Bennett’s sack dance involves more rotation of the hips and less thrusting.
We’ll see whether Bennett does any of either on Sunday at Dallas, in a game played a day after Halloween.
Speaking of Halloween, Bennett’s press-conference walk-off came after he was asked what his favorite costume is.
“A black man,” Bennett said.