ARE YOU KIDDING, @TheNyNy7 [1]?! 🤯
📺 CBS pic.twitter.com/J7f1jSaqB6 [2]— Indianapolis Colts (@Colts) November 1, 2020 [3]
The Indianapolis Colts won their football game against the Detroit Lions on Sunday, Nov. 1, 41 to 21, and two of the touchdowns [4] were scored by running back Nyheim Hines. The player, though, didn't celebrate with an ordinary touchdown dance; instead, he effortlessly performed a flip in the end zone — a roundoff into a backflip with a full twist to be exact (otherwise known as a "tuck full [5]"). Watch the first of these celebrations in the video above. Simone Biles herself even commented "so impressive [6]" on Twitter.
Hines was drafted by the Colts in 2018 and played Division I football at North Carolina State University. In a postgame interview, he said that he learned this flip in middle school. "I learned how to do it on a trampoline [7], and then I just went on the ground and threw it, so I've been able to do it for 10-plus years now," Hines noted, adding that he wanted to celebrate with this signature move since the start of his NFL career.
The fact that Hines impressed a world-class gymnast [8] like Biles is a great accomplishment. By the looks of it, his skills span beyond the football field and into the air. He didn't quite stick the landing, but winning Biles's approval deserves gold.