Helping players wee-wee

Hard as it is to imagine a football coach saying "wee-wee," that’s the legend of how the popular (nay, ubiquitous) sports drink of Gatorade came to be, according to its inventor, Dr. J. Robert Cade, who died yesterday in Florida. He was 80. The first concoction wasn’t so good, though. Native Texan Cade, who graduated from UT Southwestern medical school in Dallas, vomited.

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