I finally watched a Water Polo game -Sunday night, US beat Germany which put them straight into the semi-finals (go US!). This was not the most interesting thing to me. What really struck me was how such a violent sport, where men are being thrown into the penalty box every 10 minutes without even a pause to the game can have such a girly uniform.

Now, I understand the speedos, obviously they need those in order to swim faster, but how on Earth do you feel manly wearing essentially a tight bonnet with ear protectors on your head?

I found some pictures on the lovely World Wide Web to demonstrate my point.


Here's a very many looking Spaniard from a few years back, hairy chest and all, waiving his flag in a victorious shout for joy. For God's sake, man, take that thing off your head! You're out of the water! Don't you know there are camera's snapping photos of you? How do you expect to look manly in a speedo with a bow tied underneath your chin?


This man's in the water, and clearly needs his ear protectors to cover his ears from the fast flying balls (and I mean the water polo balls of course) but does anyone else think he looks more like he should be on Broadway than in a swimming pool playing an athletic and quite violent sport?

and my favorite:

These guys were just asking for it. Not only is that ridiculous bow so big it makes me want to yank it right from his neck, the guy on the left had to make matters worse by grabbing his breast! Get a room ladies!

So that's what I learned this week about Water Polo, fun sport, funny hats.
(oh, and anyone who played it at USC is all right in my books -especially if his initials are MDS )

I finally watched a Water Polo game -Sunday night, US beat Germany which put them straight into the semi-finals (go US!). This was not the most interesting thing to me. What really struck me was how such a violent sport, where men are being thrown into the penalty box every 10 minutes without even a pause to the game can have such a girly uniform.

Now, I understand the speedos, obviously they need those in order to swim faster, but how on Earth do you feel manly wearing essentially a tight bonnet with ear protectors on your head?

I found some pictures on the lovely World Wide Web to demonstrate my point.


Here's a very many looking Spaniard from a few years back, hairy chest and all, waiving his flag in a victorious shout for joy. For God's sake, man, take that thing off your head! You're out of the water! Don't you know there are camera's snapping photos of you? How do you expect to look manly in a speedo with a bow tied underneath your chin?


This man's in the water, and clearly needs his ear protectors to cover his ears from the fast flying balls (and I mean the water polo balls of course) but does anyone else think he looks more like he should be on Broadway than in a swimming pool playing an athletic and quite violent sport?

and my favorite:

These guys were just asking for it. Not only is that ridiculous bow so big it makes me want to yank it right from his neck, the guy on the left had to make matters worse by grabbing his breast! Get a room ladies!

So that's what I learned this week about Water Polo, fun sport, funny hats.
(oh, and anyone who played it at USC is all right in my books -especially if his initials are MDS )