Nick Novak Pees On Sideline: TV Cameras Catch Chargers Kicker Peeing (VIDEO)

During the late stages of a close game, the NFL place kicker becomes one of the most important men on the sideline. So, it's especially important that the kicker remains on the sideline. This is especially true when you're the place kicker on an NFL team that has lost five games in a row and is struggling to stay out of last place in a topsy-turvy division.

With the Chargers and Broncos tied with 1:34 remaining on the clock in the fourth quarter, San Diego kicker Nick Novak made certain that he was on the sideline despite appearing to have a very strong urge to find a bathroom.

As Chargers coach Norv Turner and quarterback Philip Rivers strategized for a potential game-winning drive, CBS cameras caught Novak appearing to pee in a cup by a Gatorade jug.

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To add insult to embarrassment, Novak eventually missed a 53-yarder with 2:36 left in overtime, leaving the door open Tim Tebow and the Broncos to win on a game-winning field goal.

Comments

[DredLockRasta]

04:00 PM on 11/30/2011

Hey it happens. There have been many times that I've made a mad dash to a clump of bushes when jogging.

[Greatest Darthfruit]

01:07 PM on 11/30/2011

he was drowning some ants on the sidelines

[AAHewetson]

12:17 PM on 11/30/2011

I'm not surprised.

Given the duration of professional football games - which seems to be driven by the need to break as often for commercials as possible as well as the need to spill over into later time slots (especially evening news programs) - I am surprised that the players don't have to wear adult diapers. I suspect baseball is about the same ... and wouldn't be surprised if they have somehow managed to install urinals in the dugouts.

[Stilts9]

10:09 PM on 11/29/2011

He peed in a Gatorade bottle and then put it back among the other bottles on the cart.

[AAHewetson]

12:18 PM on 11/30/2011

"It's that good old mountain dew."

[Steven Minor]

08:32 PM on 11/29/2011

Is it not possible that he was adjusting or inserting a cup? I see no indication that he was urinating.

[tke621]

05:56 AM on 12/01/2011

ummm kickers do not wear cups... Kinda screws with the kick motion. In fact, most nfl players dont wear cups at all. He got caught plain and simple.

[duckzilla]

07:28 PM on 11/29/2011

when you gotta go, you gotta go

Novak took precautions to make sure he wasnt exposed in any way and tried to be discete as possible. he did nothing wrong

the camera man on the other hand knew what Novak was doing and put something on our tv sets that should have never been recorded

what Novak did is far from new. players do this all the time. they are just fortunate enough to not have ***hole cameramen invade their privacy

[SteveBeeGo]

01:57 PM on 11/29/2011

"I really had to Go! Gosh!"

[123master]

11:49 AM on 11/29/2011

I remember in high school auto class, Geez about 40 yrs ago, one of the jocks peed in Mr Todd's display battery, right in front of the whole class. He had told the student to fill the battery with distilled water (he didn't like the kid and always gave him the clean-up chores and so on) before he went out to take his "smoke break". When he came back in he said "well you finally did something right"! The whole class cracked up and poor old Mr Todd never got the joke. By the way, the battery cells corroded out within 2 weeks. Yeah, has nothing to do with this but it brought the image back to me like it happened yesterday.

[kkdkdkdkdk]

10:55 AM on 11/29/2011

Sometimes you just have to go.

[tiredofpc]

01:38 AM on 11/29/2011

He was either peeing or having a deeply religious moment that had to be screened with a towel and a giant Gatorade container.

[opprobrious]

02:48 AM on 11/29/2011

Tebow 2.0?

[RayZarukkus]

01:00 AM on 11/29/2011

He wasn't peeing. He had already pizzed his pants from being nervous about the possible upcoming kick and was simply trying to get the stain out.

[SvrWx]

12:54 AM on 11/29/2011

This is nothing. Go to a rugby game and you'll see players doing the above fake stretch prior to the start of the match...only it usually isn't in a gatorade bottle. It's on the sidelines on the grass.

[Patrick Owen Chadd]

11:57 PM on 11/28/2011

He's just peeing - and it's not like he's flashing anyone - lighten up!!! Guys pee - everywhere.

[kkdkdkdkdk]

10:56 AM on 11/29/2011

Back away from he sink, I repeat, back away from the sink. If women only knew what had been peed on, we would have no mariages in the USA. A lot of food poisoning is the result of uric acid toxicosus.

[jsern]

06:03 PM on 11/29/2011

Really?

[duckzilla]

07:30 PM on 11/29/2011

somebody r. kelly ya as a teen and you never got over it?

[UmmmHummm]

05:09 PM on 11/28/2011

I'm not so concerned he was peeing cause when you got to go, you got to go. Plus, it might have been close to when he needed to kick again. I'm just wondering exactly what was he peeing in? I sure hope he wasn't peeing on something. Dog pee is hard enough to get out...can't imagine human pee...

[3daywkend]

07:45 PM on 11/28/2011

He was peeing in Denver's Gatorade bucket:-)

[kkdkdkdkdk]

10:58 AM on 11/29/2011

Anybody seen Skippy's gatorade bottle? Here you are Skippy, drink up. Stay hydrated. Needs some sugar in it doesn't it?

[Callyson]

04:25 PM on 11/28/2011

This is the least of the Chargers' problems: right now, the San Diego fans I know would like to relieve themselves on their team...