Comments on: ODE TO A WATERBOY(S)

By: JohnInHuntsville

JohnInHuntsville — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:50:15 +0000

Paul Bryant’s players hydrated by drinking the blood of the vanquished.

By: eric y

eric y — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:38:08 +0000

eric y: Sammie says you all can go to hell!
jay whitlow: And Sammie is usually right.
eric y and jay whitlow re: Sammie

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:18:58 +0000

I thought he had a gravely voice because he chain smoked chesterfields, which I believe may have been the other option to eating sand – smoking unfiltered cig’s in hopes of sucking in some humidity.

By: Anonymous IV

Anonymous IV — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:45:19 +0000

It seems that Bobby Boucher is playing for which ever team is playing Notre Dame. That must be some sort of NCAA violation since he is not sitting out one year.

By: R.D. Baker - Retired Blogger

R.D. Baker - Retired Blogger — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:31:55 +0000

The funny thing is… their waterboys could all transfer to one of those directional Louisiana schools and beat up on Tennessee in the Bourbon bowl this year

By: Anonymous IV

Anonymous IV — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:29:32 +0000

Mr. Pelican Pants that was awesome. The Bama fans are going to be after you now. What was the saying back in the old days, “You would not pour water onto a hot engine, why would you pour it into a hot boy?”

All hydration teams suck when they are compared to the quality of H2O that was prepared by Bobby Boucher for the South Central Louisiana State University Mud Dogs. They made a documentary about him.

By: tzubear

tzubear — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:12:11 +0000

Nice Out of conference, nice.

By: Mr Pelican Pants

Mr Pelican Pants — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:00:34 +0000

Well, back in Bear Bryant days @ Junction, according to Gene Stallings, Bear didnt believe in water. No sir, football is war and your his prisoner of war. You need water? You get it from rain and what you can catch in your helmet, or what you could suck from your undershirt or out of your shoulder pads. Really thirsty? Can’t wait for it to rain? You get to drink sand. Sand? yes, sand….With all the nutrients of many sport drinks, sand has magnetite, clays, chlorite, glauconite, or gypsum and silica as an added bonus. The downside is that you shit glass.(Ouch) But it will make you meaner and stronger. Thats what Coach Stallings attributes his and Coach Bryants gravely voice to. If you were the “best player” of the day, you get to drink bourbon with your sand, and you got a bag of Golden Flake potato chips. I can see why these old school guys thinks that anyone with a Hydration Squad is a bunch of P*&****ys. The old belief was that your body would pass out, but you wouldnt die. Lots of people didnt know that Bear Bryant was senile at age 36, usually drunk from bourbon, asleep in the tower , with sand and chip crumbs in the crook of his mouth, with players in the hospital fartin’ dust before they passed out. Yep, I’ll probaly go to hell for this one.

By: Gatorgirl

Gatorgirl — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:52:06 +0000

Hey, being a waterboy/girl is not as easy as it looks! I’m a first year athletic training student intern, so my duties are mostly limited to pouring the Gatorade. It’s a little intimidating when coach yells “JUICE IN TEN MINUTES!!!”

By: blackertai

blackertai — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:30:26 +0000

#18, nobody beats Georgia’s hydration squad, with Head Water Girl Mrs. Richt. If you thought Richt was a good offensive game planner at FSU, you should have seen the hellish practices she put her hydrators through.

Georgia Water: The most dominant squad in the country, hands down.

By: Out of Conference

Out of Conference — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:21:08 +0000

Looks like her arms a little on the fat side to me.

By: Herb

Herb — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:16:38 +0000

You’re just lucky no over-zealous Florida fan told the waterboy that water sucks and Gatorade tastes better – you might have seen the best tackler since Joe Montania.

By: R.D. Baker - Retired Blogger

R.D. Baker - Retired Blogger — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:09:40 +0000

Tennesse hydrates with water… Florida hydrates with Gatorade.

59-20 pretty much says it all

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:59:41 +0000

They are hydrating from Gatorade cups. Oh the powerful irony.

By: Albino Tornado

Albino Tornado — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:54:47 +0000

We salute you, Tennessee Football Hydration Guy…

You’re the one keeping leaves, cigarette butts, and opposing tacklers out of the water…
{like Bobby Boucher…}
You keep the cups in perfect circles, to better match the YPC average…
{They’re not glazed donuts}
No matter how brutal the heat, the defeat, or the view of the back and man-boob sweat on the coaches, you show true dedication to a lost art…
{It’s water, not gravy!}
An art lost by most once they pass puberty.

{Here’s to you, mister Tennessee Football Hydrayyyyytion Guy}