Why do football players dump gatorade on coaches after a game?

Question

is it just because of their victory?

just curious...

Answer 1

Well, what else are they going to do with it?

The game is over.  They're done playing football.

Answer 2

Chris B is on the right track.  It started with the 1986 Giants team that beat Denver in SB XXI.  I'm pretty sure that they did it a few times before the Super Bowl game, though.  After that, it caught on as a fad and teams everywhere in every sport started doing it.

Personally, I think it's a little outdated.  Its like sitting in the stands and trying to start "The Wave".  So 80s.

Answer 3

its tradition!  

a way to celebrate a huge win.

Answer 4

Former Redskins coach George Allen was coaching at Long Beach State in the last year of his career, after finishing with a winning record that year his team dumped ice water on him because they couldn't afford Gatorade.  He was admitted he was never quite healthy after that and was dead a month an a half later.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.ht...

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

Answer 5

Just a tradition.  Some coaches don't want it if they're sick, but it's just what players do.

Answer 6

Bill Parcells and the Giants started this in the 1987 season when they won the superbowl.

They got him one game so he said they must do it every game as a superstition.

So from thenon it has become a tradition in almost every major sport to get the coach after a championship.

Formal 49ers coach  George Seifert did not like Bill Parcells for some reason and he said before the superbowl in 95' he didn't want anything to do with his tradition so he told the team not to do it.........they did anyway LOL...He was pissed

Answer 7

It was a tradition started by the NY giants when they one the superbowl in 87.  

Harry Carson dumped the cooler on Bill Parcels.  Its happened every superbowl since then.

Answer 8

who doesnt love being drenched in cold Gatorade in December lol

idk its just what they do, we did it in highschool too its way too much fun