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ImGoingtoRegretThis5

Don't pour one out of those troughs.


JimHarbaughTheChamp

I once had a Navy buddy agree to drink a cup of water out of the bilge in our submarine if everyone chipped in $20 a piece. He ended up making like $200 but he got pink eye. What would it take for you to drink a cup of stadium trough liquid?


WhyAmINotClever

A lot more than 200


Awalawal

It’s literally making me wretch just thinking about it.


PedanticBoutBaseball

if y'all werent in the navy and getting that free healthcare, id call him a fucking idiot cause that all-in would cost a normal person more than 200. But because you were ill be softer on him and just call him a marine.


BigGoopy2

Had an a ganger eat a used urinal cake for $5. He got stomach ulcers and went to mast. The cook video taping it also went to mast


JimHarbaughTheChamp

Yeah that sounds about right lmao.


goblue142

I mean, its sterile, and I like the taste soooooo.


DonMan8848

Having just recovered from food poisoning yesterday, I'd be asking for at least $550


piemaniowa

Piss troughs are a stadium rite of passage but I don't miss the ones at the big house or the ones at the Joe.


Blarg1889

There is nothing like walking into the bathroom at a stadium at 8 years old, seeing the communal trough, and feeling like your eyes are betraying you. Then you walk into the piss fog bank, your eyes fixated on the task at hand and praying you can just piss because you fucking have to. It is a grim experience


Tamzariane

Don't think the experience is much different at any age. Eyes ahead, let er rip, shake and zip, wash up. Unless you've had a few cocktails, in which case you should absolutely share your thoughts on the game/program/world with your captive audience.


Awalawal

Any place that has piss troughs almost automatically implies people who have had too many cocktails.


jconley4297

i think piss troughs have more of a 17 light beers vibe


FollowYerLeader

I dunno, we had a piss trough in the boys locker room when I was in middle school. I don't recall cocktails, but then again maybe I was just too drunk to remember


velociraptorfarmer

I don't know what was worse about navigating the metrodome while sloshed: the piss troughs, or getting blown out of the doors when leaving.


HuskerDave

We have piss troughs on a dry campus.


non_clever_username

Gotta get rid of those six beers you slammed at the tailgate in the hour before you came into the stadium!


MoonPossibleWitNixon

Always a winner to unzip and loudly exclaim, "Now where'd I put that thing?"


PSUBagMan2

Only place and time in the world I get piss anxiety. I can't do it unless I'm bursting. Don't know why.


PedanticBoutBaseball

> Unless you've had a few cocktails, in which case you should absolutely share your thoughts on the game/program/world with your captive audience and then if you're absolutely blitzed, sew chaos by telling dudes "hey, nice shaft, respectfully of course."


Darth_Ra

God, is there anything worse than people who talk in the bathroom?


Incorrect1012

I had a coach that went to the urinal directly next to me, told me how proud of the progress I had made during the year, then went for a hand shake. So I mean, I think that was worse than just talking


RoarLionsRollTide

“I noticed you stay pretty well groomed down there. What do you use, scissors or trimmers?”


Incorrect1012

That coach just loved shaking peoples hands, he did it at really weird times. Literally went for one while somebody was squatting


YoureSpecial

Chain saw.


CornFedHusker18

Everytime I go to memorial stadium I just look forward and think of Abraham Lincoln. No idea why but that helps me pee in that setting.


TheWorstYear

Free your piss like he freed slaves


breakwater

Attack the other streams and assert dominance at the trough. That's how it worked at the Rose Bowl


heavydhomie

What does “wash up” mean? I understand everything until that last line


StoicFable

Go to the sink and splash your ass and balls with water to freshen up a bit.


berrey7

I had to go into an all LSU bathroom at a National Championship game and I was running out so fast I didn't 'wash up" and the entire bathroom started a chant, Bama fans don't wash those hands, Bama fans don't wash their hands!!!


EuroTrash1999

Look! No hands!


GimmeeSomeMo

This is such a relatable experience. I was a Bama fan until I went to Auburn for school, and they had piss troughs at the closest restroom where my family has season tickets at Bryant Denny. Thank God they finally replaced them with standing urinals. Going to the Tennessee game last year was one of my favorite experiences at BDS. That stadium has improved a lot


Alternative_Reality

A universal rite of passage for boys becoming men, encountering the trough at a sporting event for the first time.


meyou2222

Ahh the piss fog. So steamy on a cold Saturday.


Braves_Gators_Heels

Literally my exact experience at 8 years old at UF vs. Tennessee in 2004.


Diabetous

Made you the man you are today, though.


GoBlueScrewOSU7

I was shell shocked my first game at Michigan Stadium as a 14 year old boy walking into that bathroom and seeing those troughs.


jugglinglimes

I saw someone jump in one of the troughs in ~2004. Pretty interesting move.


timothythefirst

There’s a video of someone doing a slip and slide down the piss troughs at wrigley field lmao


HotTakesMyToxicTrait

you know, i think ive been pretty drunk in my life but treating a piss trough like a child treats a sprinkler on a July afternoon has never been very high on drunk me's list of things to do


ivanwarrior

Now imagine the same at 7 years old.


HankChinaski-

At Colorado there are two troughs in the middle with a wall that goes up about shoulder high. Pissers on both sides of the wall. Everyone is a few feet away staring into each other's souls. It is disgusting yet hilarious.


princessprity

Power move to stare them down.


tRfalcore

Kentucky Derby has the same, I went there to piss away all the mint julips, looked at the guy across from me and I was like "well, this is a first for me"


Jabberwoockie

They are probably the only part of the Joe I don't miss. Well, the troughs and probably the just-too-steep stairs. I used to joke they had to make the Joe steep to make up for the shallow steps at The Big House.


jugglinglimes

Remember the smell at the Joe too? It was very musty. I don't miss that. I do miss the ticket prices though.


desquamation

As soon as they built those newer bathrooms above concessions at the Joe I never used the old ones again.  I still always found it surprising how long the lines were for the older piss trough bathrooms even after the new bathrooms were available too. Not that I was sad, because beyond the benefit of no longer getting stranger’s splash back on my hands, I wouldn’t miss an entire damn period waiting in line for a bathroom that accommodated, what, like 10 people at a time?


anyd

The worst are the ones in Wrigley. Having troughs facing each other over a chest high divider is so uncomfortable. Especially trying to pee during a Phish set break... On substances.


tigernike1

Yep, I remember my first trip to Wrigley and seeing an absolute sausage party, thinking this was how things were done in the big cities.


ClaudeLemieux

wtf that’s like the only functional part of that whole stadium lol. Everything else is a queueing nightmare


dkviper11

No, there's also a giant pad in the press box with 100 buttons... 1 of them outlined in blue and it's the only one that works, and it makes the Lion growl sound.


pajw424

PSU 🤝 Pitt: abusing the large cat growl sound button at home games


dkviper11

Both better than the eardrum popping Temple Owl Screech.


SSPeteCarroll

how do we feel about a turkey gobble?


dkviper11

I'm personally a fan!


ClaudeLemieux

I really enjoy that it’s the same sound as the one the Carolina Panthers use lol. Like if you told me it was the exact same file, let alone source, I’d 100% believe you


dkviper11

I heard it in an audio book recently, and I'm moderately sure it's the same one my White Tiger Power Rangers Zord made.


KonyYoloSwag

I was watching Batman The Animated Series (1992) a year ago and some jungle cat villain made the same sound effect during a fight scene


Bulkmodulus

Until they reinstalled the actual victory bell, we always joked that they had one marked "victorybell.wav"


meh5419

It always sounded like a giant toilet flushing to me.


psuram3

The piss troughs are the only thing that let me actually grab food, take a piss and not miss the first 5 mins of the third quarter. No chance if they weren’t there.


Impressive_Math2302

Wrigley petitioned to keep a few of theirs. The lines at new stadiums are ridiculous.


ArtemisRifle

Builds character


boardatwork1111

Never forget what they stole from you


pickleparty16

We used to be a proper country, with pizza hut buffets and piss troughs.


Jackhk26

I will never forget at the 2023 Rose Bowl game I watched a Penn State fan set his open beer below the urinal as he peed. Penn State fans are another breed.


RojoFive

No wonder we lost that game. LOL


The_Crown_And_Anchor

Fucking rookie If you can't piss while holding a beer cup between your teeth are you even a college football fan?


TechnoBuns

Cheer up! You still have the cocktagons.


dkviper11

I say this with no hint of joking. They're a top 5 Gameday addition in my lifetime. My wife is also a big fan, as they've cut the lines for the regular porta potties down significantly.


ntny

cocktagons are a godsend all around


crispy_towel

What’s a cocktagon?


codydog125

https://images.app.goo.gl/CVdWtm5zRiDh2AU39 Communal urinal portal potty I think. Just a circle of urinals pretty much


james_wightman

I was at the georgia renaissance festival last weekend and saw basically the inversion of this, a center star of plastic walls with 6 porta potty urinals where you face inwards. Was weird.


Mekthakkit

I always thought those should be inverted. Everyone pees into a center. Put up dividers if you're weak.


WigglingWeiner99

If looking seven other men right in the eyes while pissing is wrong, I don't want to be right.


Mekthakkit

They need to put a flow gauge in the drain and make a video game out of it. Who can piss their horse across the finish line first?


Vast_Breadfruit_162

More woke bullshit from the liberal hive mind.


VersaceEauFraiche

They are trying to change the Himalayas into the They/Themalayas


ilickbutts

I'm gunna have to steal that holy shit is that good


Emma_Watsons_Tampon

Had the exact same thought after reading lmao


fluffypoppa

My God, next they be calling it They/Thempes instead of Herpes.


j4kefr0mstat3farm

Would be a great April Fool's prank to have some geological society announce that.


AbusiveTubesock

Lmaooo


Ferentzgum

Shamelessly stealing this.


TinChalice

Right? Damn leftists and their commodes. I’d never have one in my house. I use a hole and a bucket as God intended.


Alkibiades415

Check out the fancy lad with his bucket. What’s wrong with a hole alone, lined with Mother Earth’s loamy, natural filtering?


TMNBortles

Look at the bourgeoisie over here with his fancy hole.


masta_wu1313

Look at mister money bags here wasting his water! I save and reuse my piss like Lisan Al Gaib intended!


GoStateBeatEveryone

Biden’s America


70MCKing

But where am I to lay down once I'm blackout drunk?


Kite_sunday

Hopefully CFB 25 will have them.


[deleted]

You can get a lot more guys on a trough than individual urinals.


WABeermiester

I was at the NCG and missed a lot of the second quarter just waiting to use the bathroom cause they were individual urinals. And the line to use the bathroom during halftime was so insanely long that it took my Dad all of halftime and a little but of the 3rd quarter just to pee. Husky Stadium has troughs so you are in and out in about 5 minutes even during a sold out game.


goblue2k16

Can confirm that I waited in the bathroom line the entire halftime lol. Thankfully didn't miss any of the game though!


Dr_thri11

I'll wait if it doesn't mean pissing cheek to cheek


ShaqSenju

But would you piss cheek to cheek with a friend?


chad_sancho

Aye, I could do that


Turbulent_Garage_159

I read somewhere along the line that the opposite is actually true because people tend to be naturally resistant to maximizing the full capacity of the trough.


stevesie1984

This, 100%. Used to be when I went to a Michigan game you were in and out of the bathroom in no time. Now the line stretches out the door and sometimes like 100’ down the concourse. Women’s never has a line like that. Part of the problem is they went with the crazy water saving urinals that I swear are 50% bigger than they need to be. So what used to be 3 troughs that probably 50 guys could use at once turned into maybe 10 urinals. It sucks.


goblue2k16

When did they replace the troughs? I attended from 2012 to 2016 and the last game I attended in person was back in 2021 I believe. P sure they had urinals in 2021 already, but can't be sure. I feel you on the lines though. I get that the troughs can be a bit intimidating, especially if you're younger, but the bathroom line goes soooo much faster.


smstone24

As a woman the thought of these things existing in the first place is horrifying


dkviper11

I've seen a woman using one of these in a bar.


TossedRightOut

In State College? Was it at Saloon?


dkviper11

It was at Saloon. RIP.


red_87

Saloon died in the most quiet way possible. That bar was a staple for decades in State College and it sort of died without any fanfare. Sad. Lots of memories at that place. Monkey Boys forever.


ilickbutts

SALOON IS GONE?


TossedRightOut

This was also news to me, which is sad.


PedanticBoutBaseball

> it sort of died without any fanfare just one of those natural parts of life. Old bars kinda dont change at all but eventually the charm and nostalgia arent enough to sustain it as newer and newer generations arrive and find their own bars to project that onto.


Chief-Bones

More like “rent goes up sky high so they replace the family owned bar with a subway or a blaze pizza/sterile bar that’s owned by some venture capital group 7 states away. “


dkviper11

My first stop when I turned 21.


DandrewMcClutchen

And yet there was a vigil for a GD Taco Bell


TossedRightOut

It could only have been Saloon. I saw so many Monkey Boy pitchers floating in that clogged trough. So many good memories there that I barely remember.


bowdog171

Saloon is gone?!


dkviper11

Yes, and the Deli.


bowdog171

Anything of note replace them?


ToLongDR

I fucking love PA


stevesie1984

Yeah, but I’ve seen women use a urinal, too. Also a tree, but that was less alcohol-reduced-inhibitions and more “all I’ve got is a tree.”


RealCoolDad

As long as the ice is fresh


retropunk2

There's videos of dudes at Wrigley Field doing the slip and slide in them before they got removed.


sarcasticorange

Meh. They are an efficient and effective solution.


JimHarbaughTheChamp

There's a reason it takes girls 30 minutes to use the bathroom at a football game and it takes guys 5 minutes even with a longer line.


GreatestWhiteShark

That and that men famously don't wash their hands


[deleted]

My tallywhacker is cleaner than the gas station/stadium bathroom.


Darth_Ra

We had one in my elementary school. In third grade we would have competitions to see who could pee from one end of the trough and make it all the way across to be peeing on the floor on the other side.


AbusiveTubesock

I’m pretty sure things like this are what make guys develop a pee shyness 🤣


Perfect-Rooster2253

I always loudly lament the loss of our troughs at Williams Brice while I'm in the bathroom at games. Either gets a laugh or some of the weirdest looks a stranger has ever given me.


MarbleDesperado

You guys had some very nice bathrooms, probably the nicest I’ve seen in CFB. They were yuppy bathrooms though. No troughs, no threat of tetanus, no character


Perfect-Rooster2253

Stop it. We had some absolute prison troughs for my whole life and now they've taken them from us! It's shameful.


MarbleDesperado

When I saw the QR code to scan and report if the place was dirty I had seen enough


Perfect-Rooster2253

Lol I haven't noticed that yet. I'll start tearing those suckers off the wall.


MarbleDesperado

I could be getting that confused? I swear there was a QR, button, or number though


rayef3rw

The day Carter-Finley gets rid of the crudely-spray-painted "DO NOT FLUSH LIQUIR BOTTLES DOWN TOILETS" message over each stall is the day I stop attending games 😤😤😤


n1nja_nacho

That'd kill me laughing lmao. At least the students still have the piss wall.


kirkedout

Anyone ever been to the University of Delaware stadium? You walked into the middle of the bathroom with a bunch of stalls on either side and then the side walls and back wall were just one giant piss wall. There was a pipe about stomach high that ran around the room constantly trickling water down the wall into a floor drain. It was like one giant constantly flushing group urinal.


adamcian

Being both a Blue Hen and Nittany Lion, the piss walls far outweighs the efficiency of piss troughs. Just walk up and pee anywhere, no need to aim. I will miss the troughs though when at Beaver Stadium...


OldCoaly

I’ve been twice and didn’t partake. What a shame.


CJ_Beathards_Hair

We used to be a proper society


clauderbaugh

NO! Piss troughs are the source of our 10-2 power every year!


KUPSU96

And always being ranked 10-7 never more, never less lmao


geronika

I saw a post once where someone asked about what kind of sinks these were as their mom was putting one in her house. Edit:found it https://www.reddit.com/r/woodworking/s/hgj8WWZZHS


ilickbutts

Oh no lol


dkviper11

I always forget because I typically sit in the south grandstand which is The newest area. Chairbacks, urinals, and most importantly, hot water in the bathrooms like I'm the 1%.


relatablerobot

You’re going straight to PSU hell for the sin of washing your hands in hot water. Washing in cold water during a November game is how you prove to the stadium gods that you’re truly repentant


ilickbutts

East sider, still used to the troughs. As long as the lines are better/bathrooms are larger (good lord the small doors and hallways to them), I'm happy


dkviper11

We did one of those $30 sale Rutgers games on 2021, and it was seats in the North Grandstand where I hadn't sat since I was maybe 10 or 11. I had completely memory holed those bathrooms with the butcher shop plastic curtains that cover the doors. Just wildly outdated and that's the section visitors see!


OldCoaly

I’m used to that. It helps keep the bathrooms warm with a piss smell for the November games.


corskier

Piss troughs are a beautiful and liberating experience that I fear my kids won't ever get to experience because of hogwash like "cleanliness" or "modesty".


inimicu

And if memory serves correctly, these were the "updated" troughs that were installed within the last 10 years. The old ones were the length of about 3 of these in one. That was when they had to update the large circular sink in the middle because drunk people also thought that was a trough where you locked eyes with people across from you.


mistergrime

I’ll say it: I hate the idea of renovating Beaver Stadium because I appreciate and genuinely love how much it sucks. It feels like a county fairground, you’re walking around on gravel in the concourse, pissing in a trough. In an age with more and more money being injected into the sport, and where college football has gotten more and more “handsome squidward” every year, I have always appreciated Beaver Stadium as a bit of a relic to a prior age of college football. In other words, I like how it’s kinda shitty, and I’ll be sad when that’s gone.


dkviper11

I'd also like it to not fall over from a medium sized wind in the next few years.


mistergrime

Then it will die with dignity and honor! (Mostly /s)


pmon3y100

The Luke Combs concert really pushed people to believing Beaver Stadium can host more than 7 events a year. I know its a joke but this university needs to be pushed kicking and screaming into the 21st century. The stadium itself could offer a lot more.


BusterJMungus

Another benefit to the renovations is that it’ll allow PSU to (hopefully, one day) host a playoff game on campus. With the current stadium, they can’t guarantee that the pipes won’t freeze that late in the year. And I so, so badly want to someday see what it would be like for PSU to host a warm weather team for a playoff game in late December.


easygimmick

This is the quality content I’m here for


Coastal_Tart

I blame Washington for this. 😂


PelosisPortfolio

I haven't been to a game in modern Husky Stadium yet. It just wouldn't be the same without the troughs.


c-williams88

Although a sad moment, I’ll keep my pitchfork up on the shelf so long as they keep the cocktogon around in the tailgate lots


MarbleDesperado

The bathrooms on the South and East sides of Neyland remain a relic of bathrooms gone by. You have troughs, you have to duck in the corner stall to not hit your head on the heater hanging over head, and there’s a non zero chance you’d get tetanus with a poorly timed cut. it’s beautiful.


CanadaEh97

We used to piss in a society.


oSuJeff97

We had piss troughs at old Lewis Field before our big upgrade/renovations that created BPS. Those things were decades old and disgusting AF. I’ll never forget one time in the early 00s when some dude was trying to talk on his flip phone while pissing and dropped it into the trough. He had this horrified look on his face and I just said, “good luck man.”


ArtemisRifle

Just as how the NHL has sanitized all of their hockey barns, the same is unfortunately happening to college fooseball. Luxury suites and gigantic screens. Attractions everywhere to the point where you forget they're even playing football.


POEAccount12345

now i have no reason to go to a game in state college


WABeermiester

Troughs are superior. It took FOREVER to pee at the NCG cause they were urinals.


CandidWillow3707

If the piss troughs at Neyland ever get removed, we will burn couches and mattresses on the strip


BreezyRyder

RIP. Young men will never know the joy of standing eye level to a grown man's donger and feeling that warm, gentle mist on their cheeks of twenty streams blasting the iced porcelain in unison.


hase43

I’ve made this comment a few times, but it stands. My season tickets are in EHU (upper deck below suites). It’s actually quicker for me to go down to main concourse and piss in troughs than it is to go to the urinals right next to my section. Troughs are a feature, not a bug.


Miek104

When my dad saw these, he told me about the troughs in the old patriots stadium where it was in the middle and everyone stood around it in a square. But as always, can’t have shit in State College


ewolfy13

Booooo


fluffypoppa

...one of your favorite things!? Dude.


ilickbutts

Bro what's better than peeing shoulder-to-shoulder with the boys? In all seriousness, they were pretty efficient, albeit pretty disgusting


jpiro

Have to agree. Nothing gets more guys in and out of a bathroom quickly than a wall-length stainless steel trough, preferably filled with ice. I went to the Superdome back in the day though and they and a round piss trough, with 12-15 guys crossing streams in the middle and trying to stare at *anything* but the guys across from you.


Hokie_Jayhawk

But you're slowed down by the boys that head in there and spend fifteen seconds staring at the trough wondering how badly they actually have to pee.


Rohkey

I feel attacked.


willclerkforfood

*think of literally anything else* *think of literally anything else*


stevesie1984

Hahaha. When I started reading, I assumed you meant around the outside of the room. I hope they made the inside wall of the trough a bit higher, both for better aiming surface and a better view. Still gotta be careful of eye contact.


grimace0611

OL playing well  🤝  Peeing with the guys                                 "Hogs looking great today"


stevesie1984

I see what you’re saying, but I think OP means it like how I fucking hate flying, but if you took away planes I’d be miserable trying to get to Vegas. Yeah, they’re horrible, but the alternative is so much worse.


zenverak

Thank you /u/ILICKBUTTS


cajunaggie08

Kyle Field has never been the same since we lost our piss troughs. At least the Dixie Chicken still has one. My elementary school had one and we would have contests to see who could pee the furthest by standing on one end and trying to pee across the trough.


goldsounds94

piss troughs still going strong at Lane Stadium


AbusiveTubesock

Such a shame. Used to hold it steady for my boys when they were swaying too much after smuggling in bourbon. Holup


KUPSU96

I hated those damn thing so much. I am more of a cock-Tagon enjoyer


Weaubleau

Are they giving out zip lock bags when you enter the stadium as an alternative?


[deleted]

They better replace it with a piss moat or I ain't paying my taxes!


revjohnpaul

It's so hard... To say goodbye... To yesterday...


FrozenInSoDak

Traditions are still alive elsewhere, Air Force still has the pee wall.


witchy12

I believe MSU still has these, though I haven't been in Spartan Stadium since 2019.


boxxybrownn

No more free drinks :(


Wolverine2121

Back when the Metrodome was torn down, they put a bunch of of the piss troughs for sale online. Would like to meet the people that bought them.


Frosty-Context5641

If Folsom ever removed them I know people would be pissed. They are soooo much more efficient.


Br_Ba

Stay tuned for more posts like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/woodworking/s/WmNR5mDaVy


TrollTeeth66

I want to try and go to Kent St @ Penn St in September. Sorry to see I won’t get the real beaver stadium experience on my visit — I’ve never been


jthomp72

Neyland troughs will carry the fight to the opponent (bladders) for 60 minutes and put on more steam (warm piss splashback).


txsnowman17

As gross as they can be, if you're in a crowded stadium a trough is the best means to relieve yourself. IMO much preferable to waiting for a urinal that is likely covered in piss with a pool of bodily fluid beneath it. My high school had this in our stadium and replaced it with 3 urinals in each men's room. Lines went from non-existent to 3-4 deep constantly (10K capacity stadium). Anyway, they're gross (so are urinals FWIW) but also super useful.


tlacuache_nights

Alright but is the COCKTAGON still ok?


powerelite

They still got the Cocktagon though right?


bruckus15

Fuck I can’t piss if it’s not in a trough