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Minnesota Vikings Players Perform Camp Rock Dance to Celebrate NFL Win
Minnesota Vikings safety Camryn Bynum shared a behind-the-scenes clip of him and some teammates learning the choreography to an iconic chant from Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam.
In a video shared via X on Sunday, December 22, Bynum, 26, taught Josh Metellus, Byron Murphy Jr., Harrison Phillips and Theo Jackson the hand motions and footwork that the Camp Rock 2 cast performed in the 2010 Disney Channel Original Movie.
“‘CAMP ROCK!!!!’ Behind the scenes 😂🎬🎬🎬 90’s babies this is for y’all! 😂🔥,” he captioned the clip.
Bynum shared footage of the athletes rehearsing and then performing the choreo in uniform on the football field. The Vikings defense broke out into the dance after a takeaway late into the fourth quarter during their Sunday game against the Seattle Seahawks. Jackson’s interception of a pass from Seahawks quarterback Geno Smith with under a minute left in the game sealed the Vikings’ 27-24 victory.
Bynum also included a clip from Camp Rock 2 for a side-by-side comparison. In the footage, Demi Lovato led a group of campers in the chant. Kevin, Nick and Joe Jonas also recited the cheer. Kevin, 37, retweeted the video of the Vikings learning the nostalgic dance.
Nick, 32, reflected on the Camp Rock 2 scene — which went viral on TikTok a decade after the film premiered — during an August interview with People.
“I am super amused, I would say, by the clips from it that have since gone viral now on TikTok and other places,’” the Jonas Brothers musician said. “I’m going to say ‘amusing’ because I also think it’s hilarious. I remember thinking of that one in particular — the sort of Stomp moment — I remember thinking while we were shooting, ‘This is really strange.’”
Nick and his brothers played members of the boy band Connect Three in Camp Rock and its sequel, while Lovato, 32, played camper and aspiring musician Mitchie Torres. Lovato previously poked fun at her performance while rewatching the OG film in 2020.
“The amount of awkward f—ing things I did in this movie … I can’t,” the “Heart Attack” singer wrote via her Instagram Story alongside a scene of herself and Camp Rock costar Alyson Stoner.
The Camp Rock 2 chant is not the first time the Minnesota Vikings have celebrated a successful play with a pop culture reference. During an October game against the New York Jets, Bynum and Metellus, 26, recreated the handshake that Lindsay Lohan and Simon Kunz perform in The Parent Trap. The NFL stars broke out the handshake’s iconic hip bumps and hand slaps after Bynum intercepted a pass from Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers.
“As soon as I knew we were playing in London — and I watched The Parent Trap last week — I’m like, ‘This is it,’” Bynum said in a post-game press conference. He called the 1998 film, which takes place partially in London, “one of my favorite movies.”