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Photo Of The Day: This Has To Be The Best Training Camp Drill Ever

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It's August, and that means training camp for NFL players, which sounds like maybe the most miserable place on earth. Think about it. You're bussed away to some middle of nowhere college, forced to sleep in college dorms for three weeks (on college mattresses, which are the absolute WORST), and asked to play football for about eight hours a day, at the absolute worst time of the year, weather-wise. Oh, and all around you, every day, your peers are having their dreams crushed, getting sent home and told to look for different line of work.

DOESN’T TRAINING CAMP SOUND FUN?

Maybe not, but one particular drill seems like it’d be pretty great. After the jump...

Yep, this would be awesome:

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It’s like a Slip-N-Slide. With a football! Let’s all leave work and do this today. Like right now:

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...Almost enough to make me wish I played for Josh McDaniels. The money shot:

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All these photos come courtesy of Doug Pensinger at Getty Images, and that brief respite from training camp misery came from nothing more than a hose and a football.

See, in the most desperate times, it’s the simple things that make life worth living.

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