SFGate.com · Nov 28, 2018
NASA engineers re-create 49ers touchdown celebration after Mars landing
The San Francisco 49ers may be 2-9 this year, but that doesn’t mean no one has been watching them.
After NASA’s InSight lander successfully touched down on the surface of Mars on Monday, two engineers, Brooke Harper and Gene Bonfiglio, celebrated with a handshake that may look a little familiar to 49ers fans.
Harper, a Chiefs fan, said they copied the celebration between 49ers receivers Marquise Goodwin and Kendrick Bourne after Goodwin scored a touchdown against her Chiefs in Week 3.
“We knew we were sitting together in the control room, and we thought it would be kind of fun just for the two of us,” she said. “We saw something that we liked from a previous game, and we kind of mimicked it.”
