Raiders’ Brock Bowers and other NFL players celebrate TDs with Trump-inspired dance moves

The Trump dance is becoming a trend around the NFL.

Raiders tight end Brock Bowers, Titans wide receiver Calvin Ridley and Lions defensive end Za’Darius Smith followed Nick Bosa’s lead and celebrated big plays Sunday with dance moves inspired by President-elect Donald Trump.

Bowers had 13 catches for 126 yards and a touchdown for Las Vegas in a 34-19 loss at Miami. The rookie shook his arms and swayed his hips like Trump after a 23-yard catch-and-run TD.

“I’ve seen everybody do it” Bowers told USA Today follows the game. “I saw The UFC fight (Saturday) night and Jon Jones did it. I like watching the UFC, so I watched it and thought it was cool.”

The Raiders did not include Bowers’ postgame availability with their other postgame videos. His comment about Trump dancing was not included in transcripts provided by the team.

Jones celebrated his victory over Stipe Miocic on Saturday night with the Trump dance. He then pointed to Trump, who was sitting on the back row at Madison Square Garden, and gave him a thumbs up.

Ridley did the herky-jerky dance while celebrating with teammate Nick Westbrook-Ikhine during Tennessee’s 23-13 loss to Minnesota.

Smith and Malcolm Rodriguez hit it off after a sack in the fourth quarter of Detroit’s 52-6 rout of Jacksonville.

Bosa, the San Francisco 49ers star defensive end, was fined $11,255 by the NFL to wear a “Make America Great Again” hat during a postgame TV interview. The hat violated the league’s NFL uniform and equipment rules. Bosa lashed out in a TV interview that included quarterback Brock Purdy during NBC’s postgame coverage of the Niners’ win over the Dallas Cowboys on Oct. 27 and pointed to the pro-Trump hat.

Last week, Bosa celebrated a sack during San Francisco’s win over Tampa Bay by doing the Trump dance with teammates.

College players have been doing it for weeks and it’s gone international. Players from English football club Barnsley celebrated a goal with the Trump dance.

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