'Blues Brothers' Get Smith Center Rocking

Posted Feb 22, 2008

Once immortalized on the silver screen, the Blues Brothers now make cameo appearances at every UNC men’s basketball home game. They dive on the floor like the UNC players do during warm-ups. Then they do “the kicks,” movements as recognizable in the Smith Center as Roy Williams’ crouching, two-fist-pumping celebration or Tyler Hansbrough’s crawling, contact-lens-searching consternation. (WRAL.com)

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