Gatorade Shower or No Gatorade Shower?
 

Better not do this again

Steelers coach Mike Tomlin has a message for his players: Don't give me a Gatorade shower if we win the Super Bowl. Defensive end Nick Eason and linebacker Arnold Harrison did it after the Conference Championship and Tomlin made sure to get a mental note of who did it.
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Sounds like the guy isn't much fun. But has the "Shower" been played out or is it tradition?

Nothing like a good old-fashioned jinx to kick off SB week.

About the most played out thing in sports. Never liked the gatorade bath thought it was stupid from the start.

Worse than the "Wave?" Yes, I agree the "Shower" has lost it's spontaneity but it's just tradition now. When was the last Head Coach of the wining Super Bowl team not "Baptized in the color of orange"? I'm guessing Bill Walsh Niners 84 over Dolphins. I remember he and Ditka in 85, being carried of the field, but no shower. First, Shower was Parcells Giants 86? Corrections appreciated.

I saw the replay of it a couple of times this week and thought Tomlin didn't look to happen when they done that. Guess I was right.

Been watching the changes in your avatar. Nice :D

I like the shower. It's like a rite of passage for your franchise.

Doesn't some coach say every year "Don't dump the Gatorade on me." and then and then it happens anyways?

It's lame, old, tired, played out and,... not going anywhere for a long time.

So I guess I'd better get used to it. :(

Completely played out. The only way it would have any spontaneity at this point would be if some crazy coach grabbed the bucket, lifted it over his own head and dumped it on himself. Outside of that scenario, it is the least exciting celebration in football.

That'd be awesome if a coach would have someone dump the buckets over with about 2 mins to go if it was apparent they're going to win it.

Well, I guess out with the old, in with the new?

Pop shower!

It's better than a golden shower.

I'm looking for the refs to cleanse the Steelers
of a recent Super Bowl past
**** the ****ing refering interfering Squeeler scum

I'm quoting to show my agreement with this post.

I think it's fine for teams winning the super bowl, but people have started doing it for much lesser accomplishments, which I think is lame.

It became old and unimaginative in about 1987, but no one has ever accused football players of being overly creative. Just stop it. Please. Stop it.

If you're going to soak someone so that their clothing sticks to them, why don't you do it to the cheerleaders?

Yeah, Tomlin was wearing a really nice coat that he probably didn't want ruined.

I think the last time the Gatorade shower was truly spontaneous was when Paul Pierce did it after the Celtics won the Finals. That was hilarious.

don't worry Mike, you have nothing to worry about.

I wish a Chiefs coach would have gatorade poured on him eventually...

do you know who started the gatorade shower and the name of the first coach to receive it?

<------ yours truly

a little trivia

Okay, put your money down on the Cards now.

Thats a huge jinx.

That was already answered in post #4. :D

If I were a first time winning coach, I would want one. No question. I bet Wisenhunt gets one if they win, and he deserves it.

Tomlin was pissed because it was frickin' cold at that last game they played! Would you want to get soaked out in that weather?

It depends on if I wanted to win in that weather.

really needs to die, this custom...

QUOTE=Bugeater;5425558]That was already answered in post #4. :D[/QUOTE]

Thanks, pumpkin o:-)

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"January 26, 1987: In Super Bowl XXI, middle linebacker Harry Carson, the man who invented the Gatorade shower as he and Lawrence Taylor helped lead the New York Giants to their first of two Super Bowl titles in 1986. The Giants defeated the Broncos 39-20 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena."

"Carson took off his jersey and borrowed a security jacket to disguise himself, and snuck around the sidelines, dodging the wary coach. But Parcells couldn't avoid it, as Carson snuck up on him and dumped the Gatorade cooler onto his coach to celebrate their first Super Bowl victory. And from that moment on, the Gatorade Shower was no longer a special thing to just the New York Giants; it was now a moment that the country had seen and would copy forever."

Herm has never been showered with gatorade

I would like the HC and a sideline coach to do on their MVP. Even if they may have to go onto the field in the victory formation.

There are children in India who would love that gatorade.

Personally, I kinda like it.

"The Wave" however, sucks. **** off... I'm busy watching the game.

I paid this blonde hooker once to give me a golden shower. She took me to the alley and pulled a yellow gatorade bottle out of her bag and dumped it on my head and started singing we are the champions.

I gave her a dollar and walked away. I didn't have the heart to tell her.

ah. ...I forgot to remind you, that in my post below, the writer is referring to the real LT.

http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showp...9&postcount=27




now, if you don't mind, i'm very sleepy. thanks for listening