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From Harry Carson to Harry Redknapp

May 6th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Ever since Harry Carson, the Hall-of-Fame linebacker for the New York Giants, dumped the contents of a cooler on top of Bill Parcells at the end of Super Bowl XXI, the Gatorade Shower has been one of the biggest clichés in American football. The practice started with Carson’s teammate Jim Burt a year earlier, but it was that Super Bowl moment between Carson and Parcells that made the Gatorade Shower an overused football celebration.

Perhaps the biggest surprise, then, is that it took almost 25 years to find its way into other forms of football…

The irony, of course, is that Tottenham Hotspur didn’t have a trophy to hoist yesterday, though symbolically, they got one of the biggest prizes on offer in English football. That’s probably worth ruining the suit.

(Spurs video spotted on EPL Talk.)

Tags: American Football · Association Football