Football Coach Busts Epic Moves As Team Finds Out He Was MC Hammer's Backup Dancer

Jul 15, 2020 by apost team

Before he became a football coach, San Jose resident Alonzo “Zo” Carter was a backup dancer and choreographer for MC Hammer. In 2017, Zo became an internet sensation when a video of him dancing to Can't Touch This by MC Hammer was posted to Twitter.

According to ESPN, as a mentor for countless student-athletes, Alonzo has trained young men in the sport of football for years. However, his athletic days didn’t start with the famous American sport; they started on the dance floor! Little did his crew of football players expect that their beloved coach had a history in the hip-hop industry.

Even if people aren’t familiar with Alonzo’s visage, they’re going to be familiar with his killer dance moves. Way back in 1989, Alonzo and some of his college pals tried out for a music video on a lark, as ESPN reports. The song they were going to perform in was the then-unknown hit Let’s Get It Started by MC Hammer! After displaying their prestigious skills, the crew was hired on the spot.

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Once the summer started to draw to a close, Alonzo believed he’d be giving his short stint as a performer a rest while he returned to college to finish his degree and play football. However, MC Hammer was absolutely blowing up on the airwaves, so Alonzo had an important decision to make: would he go back to college, or would he continue on as MC Hammer’s permanent backup dancer?

The decision was all-too-easy for Alonzo to make; for the next three years, he would tour with the rapper’s group all over the world to perform in front of massive crowds. Alonzo has danced at the MTV Music Video Awards, the Grammys, the American Movie Awards, and even for Oprah Winfrey on her famous show, according to ESPN. Despite the talent for shaking a mean leg on the dance floor, Alonzo couldn’t shake his love for football. Eventually, he left the group and made his way back to his old high school in Oakland, California, where he started to coach football and track.

Several decades later, Alonzo has become one of the most renowned and respected college football coaches. His new legacy doesn’t draw much attention to the talented man’s hip-hop past. However, during a training day in 2017, a familiar tune started jamming on from over the public announcement system on the football field.

Brent Brenna, head coach of the team, was tipped off about his assistant coach’s stellar past. Wanting to allow him to show off his moves for the team, he set up the entire spectacle for Alonzo to air his skills. Alonzo laughed about being “put on front street” by the coach, and was more than happy to break out into dance for his team.

Alonzo dives into the rhythm without missing a single beat; those iconic dance moves he helped create for MC Hammer all those years ago were coming back to him as though he’d just finished rehearsing them yesterday. His players could not get enough of the coach’s relentlessly talented dancing; they hooted and cheered for their mentor while he kept busting it like the best of them on the football green.

Despite being choreographed over 25 years ago, Alonzo still has the talent and ability of a man half his age. Without going to that audition in the first place, MC Hammer and his moves as we know them wouldn’t have even happened!

Do you or your friends think you could bust moves like Alonzo? Think that one of your high school or college coaches might have a secret past in the performing arts? We want to hear all of your thoughts and speculations!