Sep 12 2008

Everybody Into the Pool!

Published by Dave at 3:16 pm under American Football

PhotobucketThis photo was taken this morning at Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock Texas, where Texas Tech and SMU are scheduled to play tomorrow at 6:00 PM. Yeah, good luck with that, guys. Waterlogged pitches in Scotland don’t look that bad.

More photos here. If the ball splashes without actually touching the turf, is it still live?

(Spotted on Deadspin.)

6 responses so far

6 Responses to “Everybody Into the Pool!”

  1. # Erin Roseon 12 Sep 2008 at 3:45 pm

    Do you happen to know if they are going to re-schedule by any chance?

  2. # Philon 12 Sep 2008 at 3:51 pm

    It would make for quite an entertaining game though.

  3. # Jeffon 13 Sep 2008 at 12:33 am

    Screw football, let’s make ‘em play water polo!

  4. # Simonon 13 Sep 2008 at 11:35 am

    Jeff that is not as mad of a suggestion as it first appears considering water polo like American football diverged from Rugby !

  5. # Jeffon 13 Sep 2008 at 10:41 pm

    Sweet… one wonders why it got the “polo” name then…

  6. # Simonon 14 Sep 2008 at 3:19 pm

    According to wiki
    This “water rugby” came to be called “water polo” based on the English pronunciation of the Balti word for ball, pulu.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_water_polo