Ok, What’s All This About FSU “Inventing” Gatorade?

Ok, What’s All This About FSU “Inventing” Gatorade?

So the e-mails started pouring in over the weekend after the factoid was posted on the air.
During ABC’s broadcast of the Florida-Florida State game, the announcing team revealed that the University of Florida doctors didn’t invent Gatorade. That the sports drink was invented by rival Florida State, three years prior in 1962, and it was called “Seminole Firewater.”

The e-mails came into me because I’m, after all, Gatorade’s unofficial historian. Three years ago, I wrote the book on Gatorade called “First In Thirst.”

cnbc.com
12/3/08