Kyle Van Noy did an epic ‘spending bills’ gesture to celebrate sack bonus

It wasn’t a “million dollar play,” but instead a quarter-million for Kyle Van Noy on Saturday.

It wasn’t a “million dollar play,” but a quarter-million for Kyle Van Noy. The Baltimore Ravens edge rusher needed a half sack in today’s regular-season finale versus the Cleveland Browns to reach 12 on the season and thus earn a $250,000 bonus.

The BYU product reached it when he dropped Browns quarterback Dorian Thompson-Robinson for a four-yard loss in the first half.

Given his post-sack celebration, he was well aware of earning the lovely piece of incentive-based pay.

As you can see, Van Noy mixed the universal signals for counting/spending money between his clapping. The gesture evoked the immortal words of Jermaine Dupri in his 1998 classic Money Ain’t a Thang:

“it’s all basic I been spending hundreds since they had small faces.”

What makes that specific lyric all the more memorable is that the portrait of Benjamin Franklin on the $100 bill was enlarged only two years before the song was released.

Younger readers may not remember this, but the previous bill design included a different and much smaller Franklin portrait. The change was part of several measures taken to combat counterfeiting.

But congratulations to Van Noy, who now has a whole lot of “Benjamins,” “C-Notes,” or “Hundos” to add to his already vast collection. According to Spotrac, KVN has earned over $47M during his NFL career.