Brown Cub
25-02-2009, 00:17
The NCAA's (or National Collegiate Athletic Association) long standing contract with Gatorade has expired recently. Everyone's favorite college sporting events will now couple shots of hurdling sprinters, juking runningbacks, and dunking forwards with images of athletes gulping down......VitaminWater. Don't get me wrong, I love VitaminWater--Kelly Clarkson's Focus is like crack. But these aren't exactly sports drinks and certainly aren't viable replacements of the Gatorade (*Lil Wayne mumbles "What's G?!"*) powerhouse.
What's worse--getting to the title of my thread--is that of the 13 varieties of VitaminWater on the market, 5 contain at least one ingredient deemed a "Banned Substance" or "Impermissable Ingredient" by the NCAA. That's right, the very drinks they will provide their athletes can potentially implicate and sabotage them! Now Tim Tebow and Stephen Curry aren't exactly going test positive for washing a 200lb lunch down with a Formula 50. It'll take slightly more than that:
"An average-sized healthy man would have to drink 10 20 oz. bottles of VitaminWater Energy or Rescue within several hours of competition to reach the level that could potentially create a positive NCAA urine test, NCAA said". (http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2009/02/09/daily47.html)
Not the end of the world. The end of any illusory intelligence the NCAA may have impressed upon the public, probably. When NCAA football season rolls back around, be sure to look for coaches getting doused in celebratory Power-C.
Do I exaggerate their stupidity?
What's worse--getting to the title of my thread--is that of the 13 varieties of VitaminWater on the market, 5 contain at least one ingredient deemed a "Banned Substance" or "Impermissable Ingredient" by the NCAA. That's right, the very drinks they will provide their athletes can potentially implicate and sabotage them! Now Tim Tebow and Stephen Curry aren't exactly going test positive for washing a 200lb lunch down with a Formula 50. It'll take slightly more than that:
"An average-sized healthy man would have to drink 10 20 oz. bottles of VitaminWater Energy or Rescue within several hours of competition to reach the level that could potentially create a positive NCAA urine test, NCAA said". (http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2009/02/09/daily47.html)
Not the end of the world. The end of any illusory intelligence the NCAA may have impressed upon the public, probably. When NCAA football season rolls back around, be sure to look for coaches getting doused in celebratory Power-C.
Do I exaggerate their stupidity?