Game and postgame traditions..

Easy for you to say. Beilema is all about player safety

Coaches today get paid, or it's in the contract with the company, to wear shirts with their school's uniform sponsor. Not many suits have a Nike swish on them.

Yeah, I hate the Gatorade baths as well.

If I were a coach and you dumped that crap on me, you'd be running gassers after the national championship game until you puked a half dozen times. I don't even care if you were a senior.

But hey, I realize that's just me. I'd even hate getting sprayed by a waterhose by the kids.

You sound like loads of fun!

when did the gatorade/splashing of the coach start? Who was the first to do it?

Apparently that is a source of controversy

How the Dunk Was Born

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The whole week Coach Parcells was telling him how [Redskins offensive lineman] Jeff Bostic was going to eat him up, and it infuriated Jim," said teammate Harry Carson.


So Burt decided on a unique way to both celebrate and get back at his coach after their 17-3 victory over the Redskins. He grabbed the Gatorade cooler, which was still full of the liquid, and poured it on Parcells as time expired.


"I was the only one who had the guts to do it without knowing what his reaction was going to be," Burt said.


Burt's teammates were shocked. The first recorded bath was seen almost as a sign of disrespect. The next week, Burt let Carson in on the act. They waited until Parcells took his headphones off, then doused him with the orange-colored drink in the orange cooler.

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WHO REALLY DUNKED FIRST?
Parcells and Carson will always be associated with Gatorade. Carson had a 13-year career that included nine Pro Bowls, but today, the most common photograph he is asked to autograph at card shows is that of him throwing Gatorade on Parcells.


Carson often gets the credit, even though Jim Burt was the actual inventor -- or so we thought. That was until 1999, when Chicago Bears Hall of Fame defensive lineman Dan Hampton claimed that he actually executed the first dunk. This prompted a reporter for the Daily Herald in Chicago to review a video of the game between the Bears and the Minnesota Vikings in Week 13 of the 1984 season.



With time still on the clock but the Bears safely assured of clinching the NFC Central division title, Steve McMichael held Bears coach Mike Ditka while Hampton and fellow teammate Mike Singletary moved in.


"I stood in front of him as the game was still going on, and he was protesting, 'Get away from me,'" McMichael wrote in his recently published book. "He couldn't figure out why I was talking to him when he was trying to run a game. I actually had to grab his shoulders and hold him, and Dan came from behind and just doused him. That's when the Gatorade baths started."[1]


Perhaps Hampton's mistake was that he and his teammates didn't perform the act again when the Bears thrashed the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl that same year.


"What were we going to say?" Hampton said to the Daily Herald. "We should have been back there in 1986 winning our second straight Super Bowl. Were we going to whine about the Gatorade thing?

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I think coaches look weird when they wear suits. It's a football game, not Wall Street.

They are CEO's of multi-million dollar franchises basically. And they aren't playing the game.

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They are CEO's of multi-million dollar franchises basically. And they aren't playing the game.

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The only one that really needs a suit is the AD, since he's the one that is begging people for money.