'Dancing with the Stars' or Football? NFL Players Debate Which is Harder
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune is back for Season 4 with stars spinning for a chance at $1 million for the charity of their choice.
On tonight’s episode, the game gets a little heated when former NFL running back and Dancing with the Stars Season 24 winner Rashad Jennings, defensive end and sportscaster Marcellus Wiley and defensive end Jared Allen debate which is harder: Ballroom dance or football.
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"I'd never danced a day in my life [before DWTS]," Jennings tells host Pat Sajak. "I knew nothing about getting in frame. True story: My partner, Emma Slater, she said, 'Rashad, let's get into frame' and I went like this [gesturing putting his arm around her]. I thought she wanted to take a picture. I knew nothing about dance. But I had a blast."
Jennings told fellow competitors that training and practicing is "gruesome."
When Sajak asked him which is harder: NFL or Dancing with the Stars, he answered without hesitation: "The hardest thing for me, still, is dancing. If y'all get a chance, do it."
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The NFL veterans are spinning the wheel in hopes of raising money for charity. Jennings is playing for The Rashad Jennings Foundation, Wiley is spinning for Make-A-Wish Foundation and Jared Allen for Jared Allen’s Homes for Wounded Warriors.
So far in Season 4, Ted Lasso star Brendan Hunt has won $328,200 for Steps of Faith Foundation, an organization devoted to offering prosthetic care, hope, and comfort to amputees who need financial support, and Penn Jillette, one-half of the iconic magic act Penn & Teller, collected $133,200 for The Gilbert Gottfried Myotonic Dystrophy Type 2 Research Fund.
Hosted by Pat Sajak and Vanna White, Celebrity Wheel of Fortune airs Wednesdays on 9/8c on ABC and can be streamed on Hulu.
