"A Splashy Tradition, Gatorade Style"

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/21/sports/football/a-splashy-football-tradition-gatorade-style.html?_r=1&hpw



     This article discusses the well-known gatorade shower that we've seen in football for a very long time.  According to the article, "it was 25 years ago that the Giants popularized the postgame rite on their way to a Super Bowl title in 1987, with Harry Carson, Lawrence Taylor, and Jim Burt standing as its somewhat sticky forefathers".  The author of the article said it would be fitting if the Giants doused Coach Couglin after winning the NFC championship this Sunday.  The article went on to discuss some other examples and variations of the shower such as when a Gatorade bucket filled with popcorn was dumped on Ronald Regan.  I found this article funny and informative about something I had never really thought too much about before.
     The author of this article definitely has a sense of humor and he did an excellent job writing the article.  Not only did he explain the history of the gatorade shower (dunk, bath, etc.) but he also talked about random things and rumors that had anything to do with it at all.  For example he made it clear that the rumor abut a man dying from a Gatorade Shower was not true and that the man just so happened to get a heart arrhythmia a few weeks after getting dunked...a coincidence.  I hope that the Giants win the NFC championship so that the will get to the Super Bowl and lose to the Patriots.  Then, and only then, will the Patriots get their revenge for that Super Bowl defeat in 2007 against the Giants which crushed the Pats undefeated season.