The "Chicken Dance" is an oom-pah song composed by a Swiss accordion (Handharmonika) player Werner Thomas from Davos, Switzerland in the 1950s and the corresponding fad dance.This is not the same dance as "The Chicken" popular in American rhythm and blues in the 1950s, in which the dancers flapped their arms and kicked back their feet in an imitation of a chicken.

By Robert Benfer2007

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- KFC Corp. has cooked up a tasty bit of ambush marketing for the Super Bowl, but what if the players turn out to be too chicken to play along?

KFC is paying $260,000 to a charity for the first player who does the chicken dance during the super bowl after a TD. Worst. Idea. Ever.

KFC said that they would donate money to charity if any of the New England Patriots or New York Giants did the chicken dance in the end zone during SuperBowl XLII.

If a player or celebrity performer does an impromptu chicken dance in the end zone or on stage during the Super Bowl on Feb. 3, KFC will donate $260,000 to a charity in the name of that person.