DAVID SAYS HE WASN’T DOING THE “CRIP WALK”

Several readers raised with us earlier in the week the question of whether Saints Jason David celebrated one of the rare occasions on which he wasn’t burned like a forgotten meatloaf by doing the “crip walk,” a gang move originating in Southern California. David, by the way, is from Southern California. Various commenters defended David, explaining that the “crip walk” has been around for a long time, and that it has crossed over into the general dance culture. David took a different approach in denying that he was engaging in a full-body gang sign. Per Jeff Duncan of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, David said that it’s “something he’s done since his days as youth and is not gang-related.” But if he’s been doing it since his days as a youth and if it’s only gradually entered the fringes of the mainstream, common sense would tell us that he started doing it at a time when it was only a gang thing. And that makes his denial flimsy and predictable. David also said he hasn’t heard from the league about his routine. UPDATE: Our pal Robert Littal of BlackSportsOnline, who is roughly the same age as David, contacted us with his take on the situation: “The dance that David was doing looked more to me like a bad imitation of [MC Hammer] or Vanilla Ice than a ‘crip walk.’ A ‘crip walk’ is a lot more choreographed than you might think and if he was doing that there would have been no mistaking it.”