If you’ve spent any time online in the last couple weeks you must be intimately familiar with The Running Man Challenge.

It all began when New Jersey high school students Kevin Vincent and Jeremiah Hall came up with the dance set to Ghost Down DJ’s 1995 song “My Boo” and posted a video of themselves doing it online. That caught the attention of Maryland basketball players Jared Nickens and Jaylen Brantley who made their own version of the dance and set the whole craze in motion.

Oh yeahh!!! 😂😂😂😂 wassup wit it ? @jaybriddle_1 add my snap: jnickkk

A video posted by Jared Nickens (@jnickens_) on

Since then everyone from Rob Gronkowski to the NCAA women’s champion UConn Huskies to the Los Angeles Dodgers have shown off their version.

You know something’s crossed over when you get to go on The Ellen Show to talk about it and that’s just what happened Tuesday for all four guys.

The segment ends with a dance-off that you need to see if you’re a fan of the dance but the most notable moment in the interview came right before that when Ellen presented gifts to each of them. What happens next is a lesson in NCAA nonsense at its finest…

While the show presents Vincent and Hall with a check for $10,000 to put towards their education, Nickens and Brantley aren’t allowed anything like that “because of NCAA rules.”

Instead, the show made customized Ellen-brand underwear with the Maryland player names on it, which…is okay under NCAA rules? We haven’t read the rules on customized underwear so we’re not entirely sure.

[The Ellen Show]

About Sean Keeley

Along with writing for Awful Announcing and The Comeback, Sean is the Editorial Strategy Director for Comeback Media. Previously, he created the Syracuse blog Troy Nunes Is An Absolute Magician and wrote 'How To Grow An Orange: The Right Way to Brainwash Your Child Into Rooting for Syracuse.' He has also written non-Syracuse-related things for SB Nation, Curbed, and other outlets. He currently lives in Seattle where he is complaining about bagels. Send tips/comments/complaints to sean@thecomeback.com.