Steve Ballmer and other admirably stupid celebrations of sports team owners

Rest in peace Tom Benson, the former CEO of the New Orleans Saints, who legitimately had a dance named the Benson Boogie, as covered on HBO in 1988.

“I jump up and down like you see fans do, and holla’ when they do something good and holla’ when they do something bad,” he said.

It’s a part shimmy, part white salsa, part not-Harlem Shake, part thing you can do if you’re a billionaire surrounded by cheerleaders. It was a mishmash of enjoyability seldom seen from the Saints until around this time in their history. The franchise began play in 1967 and didn’t make the playoffs until a 12-3 season in 1987. Benson had reason to do this in the 1990s, too, I guess, given that they made the playoffs again from 1990 to 1992, consecutively.