--- title: Nike Spoofs 'Animal House' Using Oregon Athletes description: Ahmad Rashad, Dan Fouts, Ty Burrell and a host of Oregon athletes and fans star in Nike's parody of the 1978 comedy 'Animal House.' canonical: https://time.com/4032540/nike-animal-house-spoof-oregon/ author: Eliza Berman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-12T17:04:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:24:39.604Z og:title: Nike Spoofs 'Animal House<' With the University of Oregon's Greatest Athletes og:description: The video parodies the movie's classic performance of “Shout” og:url: https://time.com/4032540/nike-animal-house-spoof-oregon/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Nike Spoofs 'Animal House<' With the University of Oregon's Greatest Athletes twitter:description: The video parodies the movie's classic performance of “Shout” twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Nike Spoofs _Animal House_ With the University of Oregon's Greatest Athletes > Sponsored content. 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The video parodies one of the 1978 comedy’s most famous scenes, a raucous, toga-party dance session to a live performance of “Shout” by Otis Day and the Knights. Heisman winner Marcus Mariota stands in for John Belushi, with appearances by Hall of Famer Dan Fouts, All-American Ahmad Rashad, track stars English Gardner and Mandy White, mascot “the Duck,” _Modern Family_’s Ty Burrell (“born and raised a Duck”) and Otis Day himself. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4032540/nike-animal-house-spoof-oregon/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4032540/nike-animal-house-spoof-oregon/"},"headline":"Nike Spoofs Animal House With the University of Oregon's Greatest Athletes","datePublished":"2015-09-12T17:04:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:24:39.604Z","description":"Featuring Dan Fouts, Ahmad Rashad and lifelong Ducks fan Ty Burrell","url":"https://time.com/4032540/nike-animal-house-spoof-oregon/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Sports topic","Nike","viral","oregon"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliza Berman","jobTitle":"Berman is a senior editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4032540/nike-animal-house-spoof-oregon/","name":"Nike Spoofs Animal House With the University of Oregon's Greatest Athletes"}}]}] ```