Was Bowerman a jerk

Ain't nothing wrong with playing firefighters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSMTVZ58fvc

Bowerdooder wrote:

Dude sounds like a great coach, then you found out he was a bit more complicated. Ran for senator, played UO politics, fueded with Exeter executives late in his Nike career, and peed on kids as a joke... seriously?

My understanding is from Shoe Dog and Kenny Moore’s Bowerman and the Men of Oregon. Love Nike, love Knight, Love Pre and the entire Eugene running history,

Bowerman was a badass, but in today’s world, the guy wouldn’t last a season.

Did he pis on your heads???

Eh???

. . . Just sayin

The road to a gold medal begins with a golden shower.

anonymous mask wrote:

The road to a gold medal begins with a golden shower.

Moore wrote that Showerman brought his set of keys into the sauna and when hot put them on Moores inner thigh.

What a card.

Yes, he was a jerk!

Namasté

when i was a freshman in college playing D1 soccer one of the older kids peed on me in the shower when i wasn't looking. still not sure how to feel about that

He certainly had some deep-seated mental issues going on that led to some peculiar behaviors. From reading about him I get the impression he wasn't above bending the limits of ethics and legality to win in track and shoes.

hashtag metoo wrote:

when i was a freshman in college playing D1 soccer one of the older kids peed on me in the shower when i wasn't looking. still not sure how to feel about that

Unhappy.

Most successful people have deep seeded insecurities that drives them to be better than others. A lot of "jerky" behaviors manifest themselves in a competitive attempt to be in control of other people and situations. Peeing on someone in a shower is a demonstration of a more powerful person showing their superiority over an inferior person.

What could an athlete do when a coach pees on them? What could a freshman do when a senior does it? Pee on them back? Punch them? Tell on them? You most often see these power dynamics played out on sport teams and in prisons where "might equals right."

To call him a jerk is a bit of an anachronism. You are applying modern day sensibilities back on the 1940s - 1970s. It was a different time, and people weren't as sensitive as we are now.

Gramps wrote:

Moore wrote that Showerman brought his set of keys into the sauna and when hot put them on Moores inner thigh.

What a card.

More like the whole deck.

A random one wrote:

To call him a jerk is a bit of an anachronism. You are applying modern day sensibilities back on the 1940s - 1970s. It was a different time, and people weren't as sensitive as we are now.

The rugged 1940s - 1970s, when people didn't get all bent out of shape just because the coach pissed on them!

A random one wrote:

To call him a jerk is a bit of an anachronism. You are applying modern day sensibilities back on the 1940s - 1970s. It was a different time, and people weren't as sensitive as we are now.

Peeing on his runners is beyond bizarre and I don't think you had to be sensitive to be offended. It's actually kind of perverted.

I thought the OP was joking but googling "urine" and "Bowerman" was enough to confirm the story. If him doing that doing that was common knowledge at the time, I can't imagine people wanting to run there. Certainly, if he peed on my idol, Pre, he would have had his lights punched out.

Lol +1

SDSU Aztec wrote:

A random one wrote:

To call him a jerk is a bit of an anachronism. You are applying modern day sensibilities back on the 1940s - 1970s. It was a different time, and people weren't as sensitive as we are now.

Peeing on his runners is beyond bizarre and I don't think you had to be sensitive to be offended. It's actually kind of perverted.

I thought the OP was joking but googling "urine" and "Bowerman" was enough to confirm the story. If him doing that doing that was common knowledge at the time, I can't imagine people wanting to run there. Certainly, if he peed on my idol, Pre, he would have had his lights punched out.

I rest my case.

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh wrote:

Yes, he was a jerk!

Namasté

POD.

It seems as if Bowerman was a homosexual.

SDSU Aztec wrote:

Peeing on his runners is beyond bizarre and I don't think you had to be sensitive to be offended. It's actually kind of perverted.

I thought the OP was joking but googling "urine" and "Bowerman" was enough to confirm the story. If him doing that doing that was common knowledge at the time, I can't imagine people wanting to run there. Certainly, if he peed on my idol, Pre, he would have had his lights punched out.

Looks like if someone can't handle a little good faith urination then a blanket party just might be what the doctor ordered.

Wasn't it in the shower? It'll just run off.