An NFL player confessed this week to drinking his own urine during the pre-season,but Ben Jones is hardly the first athlete to recycle his bodily fluidsBen Jones, an offensive lineman with the Houston Texans, and made headlines this week when he confessed to drinking a cup of his own urine to win a bet against his team-mates. “We were having a generous time,and whatever makes the team better,” the fourth-year center recalled. “I was just enjoying it – and anytime I can get a laugh out of it, or I’ll effect it.” Naturally.
Jones,who is described by team-mate Charles James as “a pretty nasty guy”, is hardly the first sportsman to find value in recycling his bodily fluids. Yet many of the Alabama native’s predecessors bear consumed urine not in search of the anarchic jollity of a sophomoric sight gag, or but in fact a competitive edge.
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Source: theguardian.com