Fist pumps of fury

I was watching a Gillette commercial this morning when something hit me like a bat out of hell: the amount of athletes who “fist pump” after winning. I mean, just look at my little cornucopia above.
Looking back, however, I noticed that I have fallen victim as well. Whenever striking a batter out during my slow-pitch softball days, I, too, could be seen fisting the sky victoriously. Even following the most pedestrian of accomplishments (i.e. striking out a girl, catching a  routine fly ball to end the game, beating a video game, running a stop light near a cop and escaping or winning an argument against Holly) I often punch the clouds.
The origins of fist pumping date all the way back to the ‘50s: According to iLikeToFistPump.com, “Fist pumps were used in the 1950s and 1960s by kids wanting to get passing truck drivers to blow their air horns. The air horns were typically on the roof of the truck and a horizontal chain near the ceiling was pulled by the driver to sound the air horn. The kids used that gesture to get the truck driver to blow the horn and when successful would exclaim ‘YES!’”
What’s more, fist pumping is also known as “Rock Concert Movement #2” at any Blue Man Group concert.
But there is no doubt that it’s the athletes for which this grandstand is famous. Perhaps my affinity toward this audacious act beckons from those same athletic celebrities, and I feel honored to fall into this category with such athletes:

 
Kobe Bryant

 
Derek Jeter

 
Maria (I’m a hottie) Sharapova

Tiger Woods

 
Rafael Nadal

But every once in a while there are extremely special fist pumps. A little Google Images research and I uncovered some of the best fist pumps of recent memory:

The “Triple Pump”

 
The “Little Leaguer”

 
The “Sarah Palin”

And lastly, perhaps the greatest fist pump of all-time:

 
The Jordan