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== The Gatorade shower == [[File:Baltimore Orioles Opening Day Walk-Off Win (40208948445).jpg|thumb|[[Gatorade shower]]]] The [[Gatorade shower]], originally called the "Gatorade Dunk", is an American sports tradition in which players from a victorious team sneak up behind the head coach with a Gatorade cooler and pour the entire contents (generally Gatorade and ice) over his head at the end of a game. This tradition was popularized in the mid-1980s when [[Harry Carson]] and [[Jim Burt (American football)|Jim Burt]], of the [[1986 New York Giants season|New York Giants]], doused head coach [[Bill Parcells]] during the 1985 season. Burt's teammates picked up on this practice and popularized it during the team's championship season of 1986β87. The tradition has since become a recurring tradition across other team sports, including [[Canadian football]].<ref name=gatoradeshower>{{cite news|last=Trex|first=Ethan|title=Who invented the Gatorade shower?|url=http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/wayoflife/01/07/mf.gatorade.shower.inventors/index.html#cnnSTCText|access-date=January 24, 2011|publisher=CNN|date=January 7, 2010}}</ref> The name may be used even when other drinks such as water or [[Powerade]] are substituted.
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