Etymology

Lambeau Leap

Today it means: A touchdown celebration in which a player leaps into the bleachers behind the end zone after scoring. Full definition →

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The story

Named after Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin, as it popularized in the 1990s by LeRoy Butler and Robert Brooks of the Green Bay Packers.

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