Cheesy 80s NFL Video Faceoff: Super Bowl Shuffle vs Locker Room Rock

Yesterday, at Deuce of Davenport (hat tip: Hot Clicks), I came across the most unintentionally hilarious video I have seen all week. It is a completely inexplicable 1985 music video by the Seattle Seahawks called “Locker Room Rock”.

Now, you may remember that in 1985 another NFL team produced a cheesy music video that is still remembered fondly today: the “Super Bowl Shuffle” by the Chicago Bears.

This morning, we will stack both videos up side-by-side and determine which one is better.

Let’s look at the two videos, starting with “Locker Room Rock”. A couple things to watch out for:

The guys singing lead vocals for the Seahawks is a linebacker by the name of Michael Jackson. There is something about the name Michael Jackson being attached to this horrendous song that just seems extremely wrong.

The star of the video is, without question, Mike Tice. You remember Mike Tice, right? He was the guy coaching the Vikings during the Love Boat scandal and then later got caught scalping Super Bowl tickets.

He is also extraordinarily goofy, as this video (and the picture to the right) proves, but in a way that I appreciate very much because it is highly entertaining.

Here you go:

Video: “Locker Room Rock” by the 1985 Seattle Seahawks

Take a few minutes to compose yourself and then let’s move on to the most famous of the 80s team music videos, by the dominating 1985 version of the Monsters of the Midway.

A couple of things to watch out for in this one:

The first solo by Walter Payton is just awesome. The juxtaposition of Payton’s sweetness next to Tice’s goofiness in the video above pretty much seals the deal that “Super Bowl Shuffle” was the better of the two.

Mike Singletary’s solo, as “Samurai Mike”, reminded me of the “I got keys, coming from overseas” guy in the 2Pac song “Picture Me Rollin”. Very smooth. And even funnier when you realize how close Singletary probably was to dropping his pants on the whole cast and crew if they’d screwed up a take.

Every white guy in this video, yes, even Jim McMahon, looks extremely uncoordinated and Tice-like.

Video: “Super Bowl Shuffle” by the 1985 Chicago Bears

So, time to vote. Which video wins? You could vote for “Locker Room Rock” simply because it takes cheesiness to a whole other level. But the Bears actually won the Super Bowl in 1985, making the prescient claims of “Super Bowl Shuffle” incredibly impressive.

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