“I handed a a cup of the stuff to Benson and he said, ‘What is this?’ I told him, ‘Well, this is a glucose electrolyte solution.’ And he took it and just glugged it all down and wanted another cup. Next guy was Gagner and I handed him a cup and he sort of sipped it. And h e said, ‘This stuff tastes like piss.’ And then he poured it on his head because it was cold and that would cool him off. I couldn’t get into the argument because I hadn’t tasted this at that time. But toward the end of the first half, Gagner took his cup and he drank it down and he said, ‘Doc, I’ve decided I like the taste of piss.’ And he drank it a couple of cups every time he came out after that for the rest of the game.”

“Dr. Cade said, ‘OK, I’ll go to doctor I’ll go to coach Graves and see if he’ll let us run some experiments on his players to try to find out and document what’s happening to them during practice and see what we can do about it.’ Coach Graves said, ‘You can use the freshman team.’ We weighed them. We took blood volumes, uh, extracellular fluid volumes, and measured all their chemistries before and after. We found exactly what you said, their sodiums went up because they were dehydrated and their sugars went down. I came up with a name and then I made this sign and put it up on the on Dr. Cade’s door. The sign that I made said ‘Dr. Cade’s lab, home of Gatorade, handmade by licensed physicians.’ And they left that up for a long time. We thought it was exciting and we knew it was a product that could be commercially available, but we had no sense of what it would develop into.”

And Dwayne was a was a security, he was chief of security at Shands, but he also coached the freshman football team. It was 1965. We had a terrible problem with dehydration. And they said, ‘This is your field, not mine. I’m a coach. Why don’t you guys come over and take a look at our problem? See if you can make some suggestions.’ Well, they had an idea that was still there was there when I played football, was that you know water if you drank water while you were in this heat environment and exercising it would cause you to have bad stomach cramps. Now and I don’t know who came up with that idea. It got a lot of attention. I mean people were literally asking, ‘What in the hell are the Gators doing drinking milk on the sidelines during a game?’ Nobody would ever drink milk during that peak exercise. So it you know that curiosity got you going.”