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Camryn Bynum & Joshua Metellus Recreate Viral Celly with 'White Chicks' Original Terry Crews

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Camryn Bynum took his "Mooooovie" mantra to the next level Thursday night.

He took the NFL Honors stage in New Orleans along with Joshua Metellus and Terry Crews, both of whom share two things in common with Bynum.

For starters, all three have played in the NFL.

They also each will be forever tied to White Chicks, the 2004 film that featured Crews as pro hooper Latrell Spencer. Thanks to Vikings teammates Bynum and Metellus, the movie once again dominated headlines this past season, 20 years after its release.

The safeties resurrected the iconic dance battle scene from the Wayans Brothers film Dec. 8 after Metellus intercepted former Minnesota quarterback Kirk Cousins early in a 42-21 rout of Atlanta.

The celebration gained so much traction it was worth redoing live Thursday.

Crews and Bynum initially took the stage, with the actor and former NFL defender greeting the crowd.

"Preparation, preparation, preparation … that's what it takes to be great in the NFL from day one," Crews said. "That means year-round training, nonstop drills and, most importantly, film study."

Bynum interjected: "That's right, Terry. To get ready for my celebrations this year, I studied all kinds of film. High School Musical, Stomp the Yard and, of course, White Chicks."

Crews chuckled and conceded, "You did give us the season's best dancers."

The claim was met with—pre-planned—push-back from Rams Kobie Turner, who also went viral with his own celebration.

Cue the dance-off. After Turner, Cameron Dicker and Dion Dawkins swayed in sync to Wicked's "What Is This Feeling," Bynum invited Metellus from the crowd to show off their moves. This time, though, they were dressed to the nines, having exchanged their purple helmets, jerseys and pants for sharp-lookin' suits.

It was a fitting recap to a season jam packed with unforgettable "cellys" after defensive takeaways.

The pair showed off their camaraderie in London when they pulled off the complex handshake done by Lindsay Lohan's character(s) in the late-1990s rom-com The Parent Trap. In Week 14, they teamed up and treated fans to the White Chicks dance-off sequence. On other occasions, Bynum recruited scores of defensive teammates to perform full-fledged dances from Disney flicks High School Musical and Camp Rock 2.

"The energy when you make plays, you really earn the right to do funny things, goofy things, and that's really what drives us, being able to have that joy playing and having fun with your teammates," said Bynum. "What better way to have fun than making plays and being able to celebrate it with your guys?"

In the final year of his rookie contract, Bynum recorded career highs in interceptions (3) and passes defended (10), and he nearly surpassed the 100-tackle threshold for a second straight season (96). An equally significant impact, though, might've been the buzz he generated through chemistry-building celebrations.

By referencing pop culture and incorporating teamwork, Bynum elevated Minnesota's culture.

Bynum shined on a solo stage, too, doing Usher's "Glitch" dance and Olympic breakdancer Raygun's Kangaroo pose, amongst other epic moves. His cellys were punchy, hysterical and precisely executed.

Amazingly, we probably witnessed fewer than half the celebrations Bynum had up his sleeve. At one point, he shared that he has multiple prepared for a given game, just in case of a monster performance.

He even sought out breakdancing classes in the Twin Cities to devise a playoff celly that was unused.

Bynum's commitment to celebrating his and Minnesota's excellence was appreciated by football and non-football fans, casuals and celebrities, of course teammates and 43-year-old Defensive Coordinator Brian Flores, who poked fun at himself for being too old to recognize many of the tributes off the cuff.

At one of his in-season press conferences, Flores called the White Chicks reenactment "phenomenal."

The commemoration had a story of its own, akin to every one of Minnesota's 33 takeaways.

After it broke the internet, NFL on FOX shared snippets of the duo's celebration rehearsal to its TikTok channel. The montage of entertaining mistakes gave a glimpse into their joy of the process and persistence.

"We watched it a million times," Bynum told NFL Network's Tom Pelissero. "The mental reps are everything – just like watching film. You watch it, then it's 'All right, Josh, we gotta master it.' Took 30 minutes one day just to master it. Now it's locked in. Now we know. So before every game we walk through it. But we have to do it real subtly. We don't want anybody else to see it. We've got to just work our steps and talk through it: 'This and this, next, do this, all right, now we're done, turn up.' We did one day of like a 30-minute rehearsal, like grinding. Other than that, it was just all watching film. We got it locked in. It's muscle memory at this point. Because we know in the moment, we've got to make it big."

Crews praised the players' choreography and dubbed the homage to White Chicks the "most iconic touchdown celebration of all-time" in a spiel last week at the 2025 Pro Bowl Games. (We're giving Crews a pass for saying "touchdown" instead of "takeaway" because the celebration warranted six points.)

"It has become part of Americana, which is weird and wonderful at the same time," Crews laughed.

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