Posted on 08/24/2022 5:59:06 PM PDT by OneVike
Len Dawson
Boiler Up!
RIP
How many times did the Vikings get to the Super Bowl when they played in their dome?
Not relevant to the commentary.
That’s like asking how many times did the patriots beat the giants in the Super Bowl, so Brady is not as good and Manning’s little brother.
It reminds me of when the Eagles played the Cowboys and the Eagles consumed pickle juice before the game and went on to destroy the Cowboys. What’s the difference here? Should the game been thrown out because the Cowboys didn’t consume pickle juice?
Really? So some teams introduced Gatorade, a drink that helped with replacing electrolytes. Sigh. Maybe the Vikes should not have been beat on the line all game. Or maybe Dawson smoking a cig at halftime, while drinking a Fresca, gave him an extra edge.
Last I read, pickle juice has not been proven to enhance the physical stamina of an athlete.
Gatorade is proven to do it.
I ask again. You name me the sport that does not have Gatorade for athletes to drink.
They even have it for auto racers.
Again, irrelevant.
Because they weren’t.
The point being Gatorade is a proven enhancer for the stamina of athletes.
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The humidity easily gets beyond 80% in Duluth Minnesota. The Vikings could’ve drunk Coca-Cola?
Nice to see you have followed through and made a nicely written, and reasoned, vanity about the issue we discussed.
I still will share with this thread as someone who watched the Chiefs from ‘63 onward and lived in the Kansas City area for 64 of my years, I never heard anyone mention this supposed controversy. Other Kansas City fans can chime in as to whether or not they ever heard that this was a bone of contention with Minnesota fans — but I never heard it and I probably attended 70 games over the years and saw another 200.
Gatorade is cheating? How about the 1999 NFC championship game between St Louis and Tampa Bay? Dierdorf during his opening monologue said “Does anybody think the NFL is going to let TB win given that the Titans won the AFC game earlier today?” When the Emmanuel catch was ruled a drop Dierdorf went on to claim “The fix is in!” Sure they cheat when big money is involved.
The great Len Dawson at Super Bowl halftime...
https://twitter.com/SkyyHighTy/status/1562408303178973185/photo/1
Well you know. A lot of religious scholars looked into the Prophets writings at the time Jesus walked the earth and could not see any reference to HIM being who HE claimed.
I offer this just to say, just because no one noticed before, does not mean I am wrong.
It is easy to prove me wrong.
I offer it aa a reasonable argument, one that deserves a response.
Tell me please, what sport team is willing to go into a competition with another team and only allow their players to drink water, while the players for the opposing teams can drink as much gatorade as they so desire?
If I am wrong on the effect it had, then all one has to do to prove me wrong is try my experiment in a true completion.
Hell, I do not know of a player that would agree to it.
Yet my challenge stands, and it’s an easy one to disprove.
IF I am wrong.
Gatorade was not even invented until 1967, it was not given to Kansas City until a week before the Super Blow.
FYI Gatorade was not the first. Mead Johnson pharmaceuticals of Evansville, Indiana, introduced Lytren, an electrolytic solution in the nineteen fifties. Hardly used in America (although salesmen begged unsuccessfully that it be advertised to athletic teams), it saved thousands of children in underdeveloped countries who suffered from infant diarrhea.
Au Contraire. As you well know Minnesota Winters are brutal. Teams not acclimated are not going to play as well in the playoffs when Minnesota has home field advantage. Simply the reverse of what you are crying about.
In 5 Super Bowl runs Minn only played one playoff game away.
Still trying to blame a 23-7 loss on Gatorade is a little far fetched.
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