Hotshot better be effective, because it sure seems like a horrific thing to drink.
That was a key takeaway from the weekend in the NWSL, which saw the top two picks in this year’s draft fall victim to the miracle cramp cure/vile concoction made by Satan himself known as Hotshot.
On Saturday night, Kansas City Current forward Michelle Cooper went down with a cramp late in her team’s 2-1 win over the Orlando Pride.
On came the training staff with a little pick-me-up in the form of a Hotshot, which bills itself as a scientifically proven way to “relieve muscle soreness before it starts and stop muscle cramps in their tracks.”
On the sports nutrition website The Feed, the full Hotshot process is broken down in detail:
- You feel a cramp coming on or starting.
- You drink HOTSHOT which is a super spicy shot.
- HOTSHOT overwhelms the nerves in your mouth and throat
- Within 30 seconds your newly stimulated nerves stop the signal from going to your muscle to tell it to cramp and starts sending out a calming signal.
- Cramps cease for up to 8 hours.
The night after Cooper’s first and last Hotshot, the first pick in the 2023 draft, Angel City star Alyssa Thompson, had her own encounter with the devil’s juice.
I don't know what's in this Hotshot they make players drink when they're cramping but they are obviously terrible 🤮 pic.twitter.com/DIkC2N9C4C
— CJ Fogler account may or may not be notable (@cjzero) June 26, 2023
Cooper, who has played with Thompson with U.S. youth national teams, made sure to notify her friend about the dangers of Hotshot, which Thompson then experienced firsthand the following evening.
I was just texting Alyssa before the game telling her how shocking that HotShot was.
NOW SHE KNOWS!!— michelle cooper (@michelle1cooper) June 26, 2023
Thompson was asked after the game if she saw the video of Cooper from the night before, to which she replied: “Yes! That is why I did not want the Hotshot.”
She continued: “I watched that video today and I texted [Cooper] and I was like, ‘Oh, I’ve never had one of those. Thank God I won’t have one.’
“And then today I cramped and my trainer was like, ‘You want one?’ and I was like no. And they were like, ‘You need to have it.’ So then I had it and it was really gross. I did not like it at all.”
As NWSL players trashed the taste of its product, Hotshot responded on Twitter, saying “30 seconds of heat is worth 90 minutes of pain free game time.”
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