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John White thought he was channeling his inner James Brown, but the record books have someone else in mind.

The Edmonton Eskimos running back paid tribute to the late, great hardest working man in showbiz with a dance that ended in the splits to celebrate his second touchdown of Sunday’s 24-21 win over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

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But the 160 rushing yards the five-foot-eight, 186-pound Utah product amassed over the course of that East Division semifinal had him looking more like Eskimos legend of old, Normie Kwong.

So much so, in fact, that White surpassed The China Clipper’s former Eskimos playoff record of 152 rushing yards set on Nov. 8, 1958, on the road against the Saskatchewan Roughriders.

“Not just (what it means to) me, but more to my teammates,” White said. “I know I rushed for the yards but without those guys, I wouldn’t have got it. So I owe it to those guys, my teammates.”

Not bad for someone who was playing his first post-season game since the 2014 West Division final, before sitting out last year’s championship season with an Achilles injury suffered in training camp.