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Rams blasting 'Macarena' at practice to prepare for Packers' Aaron Rodgers
St. Louis Rams head coach Jeff Fisher, 57, was in his first season at the helm of the Houston Oilers when the "Macarena" came out in 1995, which probably makes everyone over 30 feel old and everyone under 30 say, "What the heck is the 'Macarena,' and what does this have to do with football?" We'll tell you.
For those of you unfamiliar with 1990s pop culture, the English version of "Macarena" was a pop song with a catchy hook sung by a past-their-prime Spanish duet called Los del Rio, and I can't believe it's 20 years old now. It came complete with its own dance and spent 14 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100.
If that sounds awful, it's because it was, mindblowingly so, and Fisher is now using it to his advantage.
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Rather than pumping in crowd noise (Hi Atlanta!) at the St. Louis practice facility, Fisher is blasting music to prepare his team for Sunday's showdown with the Packers, their quarterback/superhuman Aaron Rodgers' hard count and Green Bay's crowd at Lambeau Field, according to ESPN.com's Nick Wagoner.
"We're just kind of substituting crowd noise for a little bit of music and get them to focus a little bit," Fisher said. "So it's been good, and rather than turn it off when the defense goes on the field, we just left it on. The defense can communicate through it too. So it worked for us last week.
"When the guys were walking out and the 'Macarena' was playing, none of them had heard it before. They weren't born."
Indeed, the Rams have just three players on the roster who would've even been 10 years old when the "Macarena" came out — defensive ends William Hayes and Chris Long and linebacker Jo-Lonn Dunbar — and to think the rest of them had gone through life blissfully unware of the song's existence.
Fisher should hope this doesn't backfire and lead several Rams to pierce their eardrums with pencils, but if we even get one defender doing the "Macarena" as a sack dance on Sunday, it will be worth the pain.
With plenty of games left on the schedule, may I suggest adding "Mambo No. 5," MMMBop," "I'm Too Sexy," "Livin' La Vida Loca," "Informer," "Thong Song," and "Who Let the Dogs Out?" to the mix.
Somewhere a 40-year-old Matt Hasselbeck nods in approval and hums the tune to "Baby Got Back."
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