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Terry McLaurin joins Evgeny Kuznetsov and Jakub Vrana in the DC Sports’ Self High Five Club

By Ian Oland

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January 3, 2021 10:56 pm

There’s a lot riding on the Washington Football Team’s game against the Philadelphia Eagles tonight. If WFT wins, they will win the NFC East and advance to the postseason (with an abysmal 7-9 record) for the first time since 2015. If they lose, their season is over. So naturally, the players felt a lot of excitement and emotion during the game.

For instance, after falling behind 14-10 in the second quarter, the Washington Football Team retook the lead after quarterback Alex Smith found Logan Thomas in the endzone for a 13-yard touchdown. A very excited Terry McLaurin tried to give Thomas a high-five, but his teammate ignored him.

So McLaurin took a page out of Evgeny Kuznetsov and Jakub Vrana’s book and high-fived himself.

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Honestly, there’s no better way to play off an unobservant teammate.

The gizarre DC Sports tradition first started in 2017 when Evgeny Kuznetsov tried to fist bump Brett Connolly after a goal. Connolly, who was off in la-la land, never noticed the dap his teammate was trying to give him. So Kuzy sighed and fist-bumped himself.

“If you were to describe those two guys, this is perfect,” Devante Smith-Pelly said at the time. “One is super serious, you know, tunnel vision. The other is a jokester. That picture is literally those two personalities to a T.”

The failed celebration went viral and the two Capitals’ players won the NHL’s GIF of the Year award at the end of the season.

The very next season, Connolly left a different teammate hanging, Jakub Vrana. Vrana shrugged his shoulder and imitated Kuzy.

A year later, Vrana was given the ability to self fist bump himself in NHL 19 as a celebration.

Maybe they’ll do the same for McLaurin in next year’s Madden.

Screenshots courtesy of NBC Sports

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