Sack Dance! WATCH Jadeveon Clowney Celebrate $750K Bonus in Baltimore Ravens vs. Pittsburgh Steelers

Sack Dance! WATCH Jadeveon Clowney Celebrate $750K Bonus in Baltimore Ravens vs. Pittsburgh Steelers

Let's call it "The Game Within The Game Within The Game.''

Jadeveon Clowney participated in Saturday's NFL regular-season finale featuring the Baltimore Ravens vs. the Pittsburgh Steelers, which resulted in a 17-10 Ravens loss of no significance because Baltimore had already locked up the No. 1 seed and the bye in the AFC playoffs.

So why did Clowney play? Because he wanted to get in on one more sacks.

Why in the world would that matter? Because doing so in this game would allow him to reach his $750,000 bonus incentive for the season ... and the Ravens carefully worked out a way for that to happen.

Clowney was able to get in on a sack on the Steelers' final drive of the first half. ... And he clearly had a high awareness of exactly what it all meant.

And then he started dancing. Like this ...

.@clownejd needed a sack to reach his incentive for the season.

He got it and went CRAZY. 😅👏

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— NFL (@NFL) January 6, 2024

That play actually mattered at the time - sort of - as he helped push the Steelers out of field-goal range, which resulted in a 7-7 tie at halftime.

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But what really mattered, inside "The Game Within The Game''? This sack got Clowney's number to 9.5 for the season, and then Clowney and other key members of the Baltimore roster - maybe of whom, like MVP QB Lamar Jackson sat out the whole game - were able to retreat to the sideline in preparation for the postseason.