Wednesday, October 7: Santana Moss Does The Cupid Shuffle, Avoids Endzone Dances

It's Wednesday, so things will be getting back into gear. There'll be practice, there'll be more news about offensive consultant Sherm Lewis, there'll be open locker room, and I'll get to all of that once it actually, you know, happens.
But yesterday while the Sherm Lewis conference call was going on, I was at the Washington Ballet Studio at THEARC (The Town Hall Education Arts & Recreation Campus) in Southeast D.C., where Santana Moss was serving as one of the judges for a dance competition. This was a Play 60 event hosted by the Redskins Charitable Foundation, the United Way, and the United Way of the National Capital Area, and Moss took his duties exceedingly seriously.
"It's good for these kids to be able to go through something like this," Moss said. "Gettin' up in front of a crowd and dancing, doing some of these things that they did, takes a lot of guts. Especially when you're like me and can't dance."
The question of if Moss could dance or not was put to the test when one of the six dance troupes in the competition called all the judges onto the dancefloor to participate in what started as an Electric Slide but wound up as -- I'm told -- the Cupid Shuffle. In that picture above, you can see Moss (who claims not to dance) Cupid Shuffling right alongside Septime Webre, artistic director of the Washington Ballet.
"I did it because they wanted me to," Moss said, "but if it was up to me I'd've stayed in my seat. But, you know, it was fun, because I wanted to interact as much as I can. I just want those kids to know that, every last one of them that came out here today, they are winners. Because it takes a lot to go through what they did to stand up here today in front of everybody and put on that performance."
Rebecca Mejia of the Redskins Broadcast Network asked Moss if he'd be incorporating any of these moves into his endzone celebrations, and he responded with a quick "Negative!"
But then, after a little bit of thought, Moss softened his stance. "Honestly, I rarely dance. Last weekend, I don't know if you want to call it a dance. It was more a cheer for joy. You know how when you feel like nothing can go right and then something goes right and you just don't know what to do and you do something? I did it. "
(Personally, I like the way Moss describes this as "like when you like nothing can go right," when -- in point of fact -- there was not "like" about it: nothing was going right.)
"Other than that, I try to stay away from that dancing thing," Moss finished, "'cause it's not me. But I'm inspired by them. Maybe I might learn a couple moves."
