The Spin Cycle is sad to report that Dr. Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade, died Tuesday. He was 80. Click here
for the story from Fox Sports. Cade died of kidney failure, which seems sort of ironic, eh? One of my co-workers just said, Maybe he put too much vodka in it. "But wait a minute," he added. "That affects the liver, right?"
Here's how the idea for the sports drink, the Granddaddy of all sports drinks, got started: The football coach at the University of Florida in 1965 asked Cade: "Doctor, why don't football players wee-wee after a football game?"
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