VIDEO: Russell Wilson's commencement speech, UW students jump around
Who cares that Russell Wilson only spent one year in Madison?
The Super-Bowl winning quarterback still claims the Badgers as his own and vice versa. So the former Wisconsin quarterback jumped at the opportunity to deliver the commencement speech at graduation on Saturday.
As expected, Wilson crushed it. Maybe a little less expected was that Wisconsin busted out its famous “Jump Around” tradition 3/4 of the way through graduation.
Wilson got to be a part of it:
#UWGrad class couldn’t say goodbye to Camp Randall without one last Jump Around … with @DangeRussWilsonhttps://t.co/QexUu7acGP
— Wisconsin Football (@BadgerFootball) May 14, 2016
Well, maybe it shouldn’t have come as too much of a surprise. Wilson did call for the “Jump Around” about 30 seconds into his speech.
Here it is in its entirety:
“Go make it happen.”
? @DangeRussWilson to #UWGrad Class of 2016https://t.co/l4D4dAltxX
— Wisconsin Football (@BadgerFootball) May 14, 2016
Wilson’s speech was actually full of jokes and it didn’t come off rehearsed at all (in a good way). Somehow, Wilson had elements of his speech that he added on Saturday after meeting graduates in Madison. Just in case you weren’t already impressed with Wilson, Saturday should’ve driven that point home.