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.
Again, irrelevant.
Because they weren’t.
The point being Gatorade is a proven enhancer for the stamina of athletes.
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.