Comments on: R.I.P., GATORADE MAN

By: You Are Tebows' Lunch

You Are Tebows' Lunch — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:39:57 +0000

I’d like to thank Peyton Manning for supporting the Gators through his endorsment of Gatorade (and MJ, Derek Jeter, Mia Hamm et al)

If you can’t beat em, join em.

By: PortTrojan

PortTrojan — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:41:43 +0000

I’ll never play AYSO soccer again. R.I.P.

By: dtensor

dtensor — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:28:44 +0000

?It sort of tasted like toilet bowl cleaner,? said Dana Shires, one of the researchers.”

Huh. I’m wondering how she knew that.

By: white-boned demon

white-boned demon — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:49:45 +0000

oops, meant ” gin ‘n’ glacier freeze gatorade”. Got my Gatorade and Sonic flavors mixed up.

By: white-boned demon

white-boned demon — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:47:38 +0000

As I sit here drinking a gin ‘n’ arctic blast gatorade, I say “Thank You Dr. Cade.” And damn I miss the old stokley glass bottles.

By: Allahver Fist

Allahver Fist — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:52:06 +0000

So this means that All Sport inherits the Earth? Fuck!

Hangover tip: Drink Gatorade before you go to bed, not when you wake up. Take it from a raging alcoholic, it works better that way.

By: HFS

HFS — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:00:12 +0000

I’m actually in the field of commercializing university technologies, and I’ve never heard a whisper of “Gatorade was really invented at FSU”. That would be so easy for FSU to prove and I’m sure they would have wanted to, it would have been done long ago. Urban legend fueled by overcompensating. (But, hey, FSU had that Taxol synthesis patent that pulled in even more than Gatorade, so why fight?)

Gatorade is great because it helps me describe to others what I do for a living. “You know, like Gatorade?” “I’m looking for the next Gatorade.” etc. But it’s really a bad example because, as panhandler points out, it didn’t exactly go very smoothly. Cade offered it to the university, who didn’t know what the hell to do with it, so they passed on it (but not in writing). Then he started making major change off of it and UF wanted their cut, of course. Some measure of nastiness entailed, with the end result being UF getting money off the Trademark rights, which is up to about $10MM/year. If they hadn’t called it “Gator”ade (which the article suggests they almost didn’t do), I’m not sure UF could have gotten much of anything, especially after the patent expired which was probably over 20 years ago.

By: bitterhorn

bitterhorn — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:51:23 +0000

Who DIDN’T wake up naked in one of the school’s research facilities? Thank Jebus for opposable thumbs, but the walk back to Austin was brutal.

By: Biggus Rickus

Biggus Rickus — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:37:58 +0000

I like the “Paris’s Top Falls Off” ad that keeps coming up. Is there anyone who hasn’t seen her tits (or her giving a BJ or getting fucked by the eerie green light of night vision) at this point?

By: GamecockTony

GamecockTony — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:31:09 +0000

Gone,
Did you say $100 Million?
For inventing a beverage?

I’m in the wrong fucking line of work.
Those chemistry dudes know what they are doing.

By: NoleinTexas

NoleinTexas — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:31:07 +0000

GATORADE! IT KILLS YOUR KIDNEYS!

By: Coop

Coop — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:27:01 +0000

As I said, I don’t care who invented it so much as who is getting paid over it, i.e. who patented the formula, but this is a common FSU assertion that has been made over many years.

I don’t think anyone stole anything from anybody so much as both entities came up with a combination of sugar, water, salt, and food coloring…

and Yellow #5, which we all know makes you impotent.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:26:09 +0000

Yes, definitely a hangover cure. I bottle of that and a nutragrain bar = wakeboarding at 9am after being up ’til 3 drinking like a fish.

I gotta wonder if his kidney failure had anything to do with the massive amounts of salt in Gatorade.

By: TX_FL

TX_FL — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:25:17 +0000

I still get goosebumps every time I see that commercial.

By: PeteJayhawk

PeteJayhawk — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:25:14 +0000

One of my favorite “traditions” at KU games is when they end the ads for Gatorade over the PA with “Gatorade: Is it in you?” and the entire stadium/arena answers back, “NO!”.