High School Football Game Delayed by Peeing Horse

Friday was a beautiful night for a high school football game in Queen Creek, Ariz., a suburb southwest of Phoenix. The sun was setting. The San Tan Mountains formed a dramatic backdrop behind the south end zone. A person rode onto the field on a horse, carrying an American flag. It was a beautifully picturesque scene. Everything was perfect. Until the horse did what horses do.

When the horse came to a stop at the midfield logo, it promptly peed all over the field. The ill-timed urination forced the game to be delayed while a kid with a shovel went out to scoop up as much of it as possible.

That’s the risk you run when you introduce live animals to a sporting event. Animals, especially horses, are liable to relieve themselves at inopportune times. It’s just lucky it didn’t come from the other end.

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The kid who tried to clean it up did an admirable job. Scooping up a liquid off of an artificial turf field with a shovel that appears to have slots in the back can’t be easy. He was doing a diligent job, but he can’t have gotten all the horse pee. I shudder to think about all the players who got tackled at midfield during the game.