Kapernicking

Aaron Rodgers has made a fortune from stealing Triple H's championship belt maneuver. Now known as the "Discount Double Check," he's made both State Farm and himself very happy.

Of course, Triple H stole that move from other past wrestlers as well. Things like that have been around for a long time. I'm not sure anybody can really give credit to the one wrestler who REALLY invented it. Wrestling and showboating go back a long, long way. (Ed "Strangler" Lewis and Frank Gotch anyone?)

That brings us to Colin Kaepernick.

Or more precisely "Kaepernicking."

Colin Kaepernick has decided to TRADEMARK his touchdown celebration ( the kissing of his biceps muscles after a score.) I don't blame him. It's just that, just like Aaron Rodgers, he didn't invent the maneuver.

Was it a bodybuilder who did it first? I'm not sure. It wouldn't surprise me. Bodybuilders are the same breed as pro wrestlers. They train and they love to perform. And the best showman are often the guys who win the event.

But I'm still GUESSING the first person to perform the move publicly was probably a pro wrestler. I KNOW variations of the maneuver have been around as long as the early-seventies when Superstar Graham hit the WWWF (yes there was an extra "W" in the name back then, before it later became WWF and most recently WWE.)

Since that time, variations of the move have come from basically every "heel" performer in wrestling who was muscular. Jesse "The Body" Ventura, Ken Patera, Hercules Hernadez, Ravishing Rick Rude, and Big Poppa Pump (Scott Steiner) come to mind but there were obviously others.

My point? It took a football player to actually trademark the maneuver. He also gave it a NAME. I've been Kaepernicking my own arms for YEARS now, just as two of my brothers have been Kaepernicking their own biceps for years. But now, that's right, NOW, we can finally say what we've doing because it finally has a name.

Thanks Colin! This is from all the narcissists out there who have been doing this for years. You are our hero. You gave us a voice.

We are forever in your debt.