The latter dance was in response to late-night show host Jimmy Fallon saying he would pay the fine for any athlete who copied the moves displayed during a skit with former *NSYNC member Justin Timberlake. When the NFL didn’t fine Fauria, Fallon instead made a $10,000 donation to the Michigan’s Make-A-Wish chapter.Fauria said then-Lions coach Jim Schwartz initially frowned upon his end-zone celebrations and even made him an example in front of the team about what not to Madden Mobile Coins do when scoring.

Fauria, though, said his teammates didn’t want him to stop and even began offering suggestions for future celebrations.“I’m a new kid. I’m all red-faced sweating and thinking, ‘I’m never going to do this again,’” said Fauria, who joined the Lions as an unsigned college free agent from UCLA.

It wasn’t until two veterans and the coup de grace — (wide receiver) Calvin Johnson — came up to me and said, ‘Big Joe, keep dancing, man. It’s great.’“So I’m like, ‘Ok, I’m going to undermine my head coach. Great.’”MORE: Another famous NFL twerker approves celebration rule changes.

Fauria said Schwartz “warmed up” to his shtick later that season after a three-touchdown game against Cleveland.“Around practice, I would score a touchdown once in a while and do a little preview of what I was going to do that weekend,” Fauria said. “I was NFL 18 Coins pushing some buttons, but Jim Schwartz finally jumped on the bandwagon.

He said, ‘Joe, keep it up. It’s ok with me now.’”Fauria admits Schwartz’s replacement Jim Caldwell wasn’t a fan either after he “twerked” to celebrate his first touchdown in an injury-plagued 2014 campaign. “Ownership (the Ford Family) wasn’t too happy about my representation of their team so I got yelled at again.