Gatorade or Seminole Firewater... Just stirring the cooler with my two cents.
Not being one to miss a chance to put my Noles out in front of the Gators, I was reminded of this story by one of the comments on the blog and I decided I should put it out their for public consumption.
Gatorade as a concept was not invented by the University of Florida. There I said it. It was possibly invented by a doctor at Florida State (I also doubt this based on some other research, but the bottom line is that it wasn't a Gator thing first). There was a athletic drink called Seminole Firewater made a full 5 years before the Gatorade patent was applied for.
Does any of this really matter? Not much but it is fun to know that my Noles are always ahead of the curve so to speak and it is one more thing I can use to jab Gator fans with when we talk (maybe even spear them with, you know like one of those big arrowhead tipped, feather ladden spears).
I argued with two of my students about Florida vs. Florida State for five full minutes at recess today - you would have been proud!