Gatorade is 50

[HogtownGator]

5 Things to know about Gatorade

Gatorade wasn't the first salt and sugar solution for football players. There were plenty of drinks out there. In fact, Florida State had a drink called Seminole Fluid that was invented by the team doctor three years before Gatorade was created.

I fixed it for them.

 

[2ndAmend]

Happy Birthday G

 

[PatDooleySucks]

I find it kind of interesting how the Semis are so desperate to be first. Like they claim they were really the first school in Florida, etc. They had a version of Gatorade first. What does that say about them? They weren't able to accomplish squat with being in a better position first?

Either way it shakes out for fsu, they blow.

 

[Durty South Swamp]

They have a permanent inferiority complex and it drives their attitudes about everything. It's sad really, and pathetic.

 

[HogtownGator]

You guys missed my joke -- the article says they were going to call it "Seminole Firewater". I changed that to Seminole Fluid, and I made myself laugh.

 

[AlexDaGator]

This crap always comes up.

They gave my dad salt pills in WWII to drink with water. Players were given salt pills and sugar forever ago. Haphazardly giving somebody kool aid and a salt pill isn't inventing Gatorade.

UF researchers were scientists, not coaches or trainers. They tested sweat in their labs and created a formula mimicking sweat...and then tried to make it palatable. No mean feat.

Gatorade was an actual formula based on their research, not kool aid and a salt pill.



Alex.