That doesn't look like a Gatorade, but seeing as they were cheating they probably disguised it in Fresca bottles. 
Posted on 08/24/2022 5:59:06 PM PDT by OneVike
I don’t think that’s cheating. Often times the team that gloms onto new technology first wins. Nobody has declared Gatorade against the rules, maybe if it had been outlawed you’d have a point, but it isn’t. It’s just like those gloves that enable all these insane one handed catches. Early on the teams that used them generally beat on the teams that hadn’t found out about them yet. That’s not cheating, that’s thinking.
I can accept that, but I use cheating, because I am a fan, and somebody should at least recognize the difference it made.
Yet it has been able to go down in history as the Chiefs were so much better because of the game, when in fact the Vikings were the victims of a trick that was not considered illegal.
I am reminded of the game that had the first forward pass. It was considered cheating, but the team that lost did not get ridiculed in the media and destroyed by the critics.
Viking players had their futures put in question about how good they were.
Add three more loses and it cemented them as losers, when it all started with a game that could have been different if the Vikings has Gatorade instead of the Chiefs.
Interestingly, the next year Kansas City failed to make it to the Super Bowl by losing by a field goal I overtime to Miami. Interesting because Miami also had Gatorade on their sideline in that game.
One can just wonder what would have been, yet History holds Chiefs in high regard for that game, and there Vikings are considered the joke.
You know that sports writers who decide what players will be in the Hall of fame actually held back their votes for most of the Vikings except for a few, based upon their shopping in that game. Today, Jim Marshal is still not in the Hall.
A lot more of the Chiefs players from the game are in the hall than the Vikings, and yet the Chiefs had only one more good year, while the Vikings were in the playoffs for the next 10 years, and even made it back to the Super Bowl 3 times.
Sometimes a gimmick can be the difference between a great team and one that just missed the mark in the minds of millions.
It’s not cheating. And calling it cheating isn’t being a fan, it’s whining.
The Chiefs whomped the Vikes from beginning to end. Maybe being better hydrated helped, but I don’t think if the Chiefs had just water they’d have lost.
The rules got changed to allow the forward pass. It wasn’t considered cheating by the time it started happening a lot because it wasn’t anymore.
There’s a whole lot that cemented the Viking as losers. Not the least of which being that except for a couple of seasons where they bubbled up they’ve sucked since going into a dome.
I doubt anything changes drastically if they had the same liquids. The Chiefs were better. And the future of the Vikes really wasn’t about that game, but decades of bad management. That they’re still suffering from today.
Technology is always being pushed. Whether its sports drinks, gloves, lighter bikes with better force transfer, clubs and rackets with better sweet spots, shoes with better grips, swimsuits with less resistance, bent hockey sticks. There’s early adopters and late adopters. Early adopters tend to be better across the board, because they’re putting in that extra effort. Frankly it’s just more proof that the Chiefs were better than the Vikes. They were willing to try to be better. As others on this thread electrolyte replacement was by no means a new concept. The Chiefs were willing to try it out, the Vikes weren’t. Chiefs won.
That doesn't look like a Gatorade, but seeing as they were cheating they probably disguised it in Fresca bottles.
One of the Chiefs centers from the Hank Stram era (I think it was Rudney) told me over drinks in Holihan’s that often playing tennis with Hank he would push the rules so much that Jack would often just give up and let him win so he would quit acting childish.
God, I hate football.
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