Sports Hot Tub Time Machine

SI Staff | Mar 26, 2010

Sports Hot Tub Time Machine /

Sports Hot Tub Time Machine

To honor the opening of the film Hot Tub Time Machine, SI.com's photo editors went back in time to find some of the best interactions of athletes and hot tubs. So soak in this gallery, and come along for the ride.

Dwight White

The 70s were a rough-and-tumble era in the NFL, which is why Steelers lineman White enjoyed this soak during training camp at St. Vincent College.

Isiah Thomas and Bill Laimbeer

Was a hot tub the secret to the Pistons success in the 1980s? Here, Bad Boys Thomas and Laimbeer enjoyed some hot tubs hijinx.

Wayne Gretzky

The Great One turned into The Soap One while walking out of his Edmonton dressing room following a memorable soak.

UNLV basketball players

In one of the more famous sports photos of the 1990s, The Las Vegas Review-Journal's front page featured a couple of Rebel players with Richie Perry, a convicted sports fixer. The photos led to coach Jerry Tarkanian's resignation.

Charles Barkley

Summertime and the living is easy as Sir Charles proved with this memorable pose in a Jacuzzi.

Sandy Alomar

Catching is a tough job, which is why Alomar Jr. enjoyed the comforts of this hot tub in the Indians' locker room.

Bruce Baumgartner

Three-time Olympic medalist Bruce Baumgartner rubbed noses in his hot tub with sons Bryan and Zachary at his home in Cambridge Springs, Pa.

Rickey Henderson

Stealing bases pounds the body, so Henderson enjoyed this whirlpool bath after a game against the Tigers in May, 1998.

Tommie Moe

The 1994 Olympic gold medalist Moe enjoyed a gold-medal hot tub experience at home with his then-girlfriend (and now wife), Megan Gerety.

Syracuse football players Robin Anderson and Troy Nunes

The `Cuse is in the tub: Prior to the Insight.com Bowl, Syracuse quarterbacks Robin Anderson and Troy Nunes enjoyed a hotel soak in Scottsdale, Arizona

Barry Zito, Tim Hudson, Terrance Long, Frank Menechino

The A's quartet posed in the whirlpool as part of an SI story on the "Coolest Team In Baseball."

Eric Chavez

The longtime A's third baseman strikes a hot tub pose during Spring Training at Phoenix's Municipal Stadium

Steve Francis

When you've been as traded as much as the well-traveled Steve Francis, you can always use a good hot tub.

Carl Crawford

The All-Star outfielder enjoyed a soak while training at the Athletes Performance Institute during the offseason.

Rasheed Wallace

No referees to 'T' up Wallace here, as the then-Piston star enjoys a soak.

Dennis Dixon

While preparing for the NFL Draft, Oregon quarterback Dixon enjoyed the joys of a hot tub.

O.J. Mayo

As a Grizzlies rookie looking to make his mark, Mayo loosened up in a hot tub prior to practice.

Jeff Zgonina

The Texans' veteran defensive tackle -- he's played for eight NFL teams -- stood in a hot tub while enjoying the daily paper.

Published Mar 26, 2010

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