Football Teams Are Now On The Quest To See Who Can Have The Whackiest And Silliest Practices Of Them All
Anyone who has ever coached youth sports before knows that a few times throughout the season, you have to have a whacky practice just to keep the kids engaged. You don't want them to get burnt out, so you have a fun day to break up the monotony. Maybe you play sharks and minnows, maybe you play dodgeball. You try to tell the kids there was some hidden purpose behind it like conditioning. But at the end of the day, you know you were just bullshitting around for an hour or so because you didn't want to have a regular practice.
Turns out those types of practices still happen even at the highest levels of football. You've got the Baltimore Ravens spraying themselves down with a fire hose pretending like it's going to have any legitimate impact on their ability to recover fumbles this season. You've got Florida State chasing players around with water guns for god knows what reason.
But at the end of the day, these football teams just want to be a little whacky and silly sometimes. They want to see who can be the silliest goose in the pond. I mean, sure, there was a time when showing up to football practice every day was like being a modern day gladiator and fighting for your life out there. But the times have changed. There's a flag on every play, and you could find yourself getting tossed from the game if you hurt the quarterback's feelings. Teams need to find a new way to prepare for those scenarios at practice every week, and it would appear that squirting each other with various water pressures does the trick.
Either way, looks like football practices are a blast now. Looks like the most fun I've ever had in my life.