Ickey Shuffle

The "Ickey Shuffle" has also been adopted as the name for a common speed and agility drill that utilizes a similar kind of lateral rhythmic stepping, somewhat derivative of the famous dance itself.

[8][9][10] In an interview performed on an episode of Inside the NFL Woods said that before he and the Cincinnati Bengals played the Cleveland Browns on September 25, 1988, he told his mother that if he happened to score during the game, he would do a dance.

After workshopping his celebration from the previous game, Woods came out against the New York Jets on October 10, 1988, and performed what is now known as the "Ickey Shuffle" for the first times following the two touchdowns he scored on that day.

[7] In the version that GEICO chose to air, Woods performs the Ickey Shuffle within a supermarket, celebrating the meat slicer calling out his ticket number “44”.

[4] In addition to this televised commercial, Geico also filmed more short clips of Woods performing the shuffle and exclaiming about a number of different scenarios, such as: “Awkward”, “Your new profile pic is totally casual”, “Game Over”, “It’s Humpday!” and many more.