Indiana Lets Their Hillbilly Flag Fly By Building The First Ever Above Ground Pool In A Football Stadium

I'm sweating through t-shirts, my swampy balls are sticking to my leg, AND I'm carrying around a sweat towel like I'm a comic on The Original Kings Of Comedy Tour. It's officially summer! 

There's a historic heatwave roasting the United States, so if you're not by a body of water, you're cooked. Indiana is currently handling the sweltering temps the only way we know how - building an above ground pool. Indiana went and built a pool inside the Colt's football stadium. Throw in a trampoline next to this bad boy, and you've got the perfect white trash starter pack. But this is a classy above ground pool, it's not a backyard eye sore sitting out in the open. This is one of those pools where the home owner builds a wooden deck all around, so if you believe hard enough, it's an in-ground pool. This pool is even funnier when you know that this is Jim Irsay's house, and he is the owner most likely to spend all day floating around in an above ground pool. Irsay would also 100% have one of those "Welcome To Our Ool! Notice there is no P in it, Lets Keep It This Way" signs and laugh every time he showed it to a guest. 

This pool was built for the U.S. Olympic Swim Team Trails that have been going on all week, and I have now clue where you'd even begin with making a transportable, water tight, olympic sized swimming pool. Let alone in 48 hours. The time lapse video of this construction is insane. You could give me 100 years and I wouldn't be able to pull this off. Even if you gave me an already built pool, I wouldn't be able to figure out how to fill up the entire thing with the 1.8 million gallons of water required. I would be walking around the stadium looking for a garden hose. Meanwhile, this crew pulled a genius move, and used the nearby White River to quickly fill it up to the brim. 

Literally a mile away is the Indiana University Natatorium that at one point housed the fastest pool in the world. I'm not a physicist, and hardly a swimmer, but something about the way the water bounces off the walls of the pool makes the pool "faster." I have no clue if a pool that was snapped together like a lego set is good for the swimmers competing, but the unusual venue has allowed the US swim trails have had record setting attendance for the event. 

2024 has been a mind blowing year for Indiana of building stuff, inside of stuff, where it shouldn't be built. We've got the olympic sized swimming pool in Lucas Oil Stadium, and back in February for NBA All-Star week, we put a full size basketball court in the airport. I'd also argue every airport should have a basketball court. I'd love to show up to the gate sweating my dick off because I just passed the time playing a full court 5 v 5 pick up game to pass the time during my 3 hour flight delay. 

We even built an Eiffel Tower replica in the middle of downtown Indianapolis to commemorate the Olympic Games being in Paris. But, this also makes since, because I often call Indianapolis the Paris of the midwest.