{"id":7275,"date":"2019-06-12T16:13:21","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T20:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/?p=7275"},"modified":"2019-06-12T16:13:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T20:13:44","slug":"elbow-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/2019\/06\/12\/elbow-drop\/","title":{"rendered":"Anatomy of an Elbow Drop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/lunsford-elbow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/lunsford-elbow.jpg 900w, https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/lunsford-elbow-100x61.jpg 100w, https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/lunsford-elbow-315x193.jpg 315w, https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/lunsford-elbow-768x469.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/lunsford-elbow-550x336.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re on social media and follow Georgia Southern, you\u2019ve probably\nseen Eagles\u2019 Head Football Coach Chad\nLunsford perform an elbow drop\non a metal folding chair, followed\nby a frenzy of stomping by the players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ritual has become a mainstay\nof Eagle football after important\nwins, and both players\nand fans are whipped into a frenzy\nwhen it\u2019s performed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lunsford says it started\nwhen he was visiting the fraternity houses on campus, trying\nto get students hyped up about the upcoming 2018 season. He grew up a wrestling fan, and so when\nthe students were getting\nrowdy, the chair came out and \u201cit just kind of happened.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the blowout 52-0 win against South Alabama in 2017, the\nvideo of the elbow drop made\nit to Twitter, \u201cand it kind of became\na thing.\u201d However, he\nis quick to remind\neveryone that the elbow drop doesn\u2019t happen after\nevery win. \u201cIt only happens\nafter big wins,\u201d he\nsaid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saving the ritual for special occasions is probably wise\nfor Lunsford, who was forced\nto develop a \u201cform\u201d after a particularly\npainful win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen I did it against Lafayette I actually bruised a rib,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I learned from it. Just like our losses, you know? Loss stands for learning opportunity stay strong, and so I had a learning opportunity then, and so I figured it out.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><em>\u2013 Doy Cave<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re on social media and follow Georgia Southern, you\u2019ve probably seen Eagles\u2019 Head Football Coach Chad Lunsford perform an elbow drop on a metal folding chair, followed by a frenzy of stomping by the players. The ritual has become a mainstay of Eagle football after important wins, and both players and fans are whipped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":7276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-7275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-spring-2019"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}