The Useless Posts Thread

I heard that it was actually developed at FSU but they didn't patent it. Florida took it and got it patented.

I drink Vodka and Diet Pepsi when I'm not at work!!!

 

Well - snows gone & it's almost 50...maybe Next Monday. Need snow 4X4!

 

That is correct.

 

I'll take Kokanee thank you very much!!

 

uh-uuh:


In early summer of 1965, a University of Florida assistant coach sat down with a team of university physicians and asked them to determine why so many of his players were being affected by heat and heat related illnesses.

The researchers — Dr. Robert Cade, Dr. Dana Shires, Dr. H. James Free and Dr. Alejandro de Quesada — soon discovered two key factors that were causing the Gator players to ‘wilt’: the fluids and electrolytes the players lost through sweat were not being replaced, and the large amounts of carbohydrates the players’ bodies used for energy were not being replenished.

The researchers then took their findings into the lab, and scientifically formulated a new, precisely balanced carbohydrate-electrolyte beverage that would adequately replace the key components lost by Gator players through sweating and exercise. They called their concoction ‘Gatorade’.


Soon after the researchers introduced their Gatorade formula to the team, the Gators began winning… outlasting a number of heavily favored opponents in the withering heat and finishing the season at 7–4.
The team’s success progressed even more during the 1966 season, with the Gators finishing at 9–2 and winning the Orange Bowl for the first time ever in the history of the school. Word about Gatorade began to spread outside of the state of Florida, and both the University of Richmond and Miami of Ohio, began ordering batches of Gatorade for their football teams. Orders from other college football programs across the country soon followed, as playing without Gatorade on your sidelines began to be likened to playing with just ten men on the field.
Today, Gatorade can be found on the sidelines of more than 70 Division I colleges as the official sports drink of their men’s and women’s intercollegiate sports.


In the summer of 1969, Coach Ray Graves of the Florida Gators suggested to the Kansas City Chiefs that they use Gatorade to combat the staggering effects of a blistering Missouri sun during training camp. The Chiefs were so impressed with the “Gator coach’s aid” that they kept it on their sidelines throughout the entire season… which concluded with a stunning victory over the heavily favored Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl IV.
In the years that followed, more and more NFL teams began placing Gatorade on the sidelines of their games and practices, and in 1983, Gatorade became the official sports drink of the NFL—a title it holds to this day.

 

I'm going to have to try it.

 

I like good old-fashioned coffee.

 

Coffee is good too, I'm trying to cut down on caffeine

 

^^^ HaHa....I've been busy. ps. thanks,

 

I probably should too, but in my effort to cut out so much sugar, I quit drinking soda and what was left was water and coffee--I drink both, but coffee wins when its cold outside. Aw hell, who am I kidding?! Coffee usually wins. I do drink alot of water too. I'm getting used to decaf at night though.

 

I noticed!! Thanks and you are welcome.

 

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Oh I'm doing sugar too ...I switched to making my own tea and bringing it to work along with water, so I wouldn't get sick of water and go back to soda. I still allow myself a little soda, but I used to drink too many. Hot chocolate sugar free and hot tea is good when its cold, but I give into decaf coffee sometimes and it has to have sugar.
Any little bit helps .

 

Cold and rainy here today. Maybe sleet today.

 

currently 37 degrees, high of 66, light winds and clear skys

 

71.2 and raining, tornado watch, severe weather alert

 

It totally sucks trying to be healthier doesn't it!? LOL!

 

i have random thoughts too...........like who the hell drank my last beer in the fridge. then, i realize, i must have been sleep-drinking in the middle of the night, so i gotta head back to the store for another case. damn sleep-drinking!!