History
Gatorade was develop at the University of Florida Medical School by a research MD. The impetus was a comment by the UF football coach that his players were badly dehydrated at the end of a game. The MD decided to look into keeping the players hydrated during the game in Florida heat. He found that water was light on some stuff sweated out and dehydration was not only the loss of water but the loss of other stuff also. The result was Gatorade. When it was substituted for water the football team was much better hydrated late in the game and tended to dominate the latter part of the game, especially in Florida.
The nickname for UF is Gators hence Gatorade (aka reptile piss as that what the coach noted, his players were too dehydrated to piss).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
