Alright, so the Super Bowl. Big game, everyone’s hyped. But me, I wasn’t just watchin’ for the touchdowns or the halftime show. Nah, I had my eyes on somethin’ else, somethin’ a bit silly but hey, why not try to be smart about it, right? I’m talkin’ about that Gatorade bath color.
Yeah, you heard me. People actually bet on what color Gatorade gets dumped on the winning coach. Seemed like a fun little puzzle to crack, maybe make a few bucks if I played my cards right. How hard could it be to figure out a color?
My Deep Dive into Gatorade-ology
So, I rolled up my sleeves and got to it. First thing, I went lookin’ at the history. Pulled up lists of past Super Bowls and what color they used. You’d think there’d be some secret code, some obvious pattern. Boy, was I wrong.
Here’s a taste of what I found, lookin’ back over the years:
- Orange pops up a lot. Like, a real lot.
- Then you got Blue, a solid contender.
- Yellow or that Lime Greenish-Yellow makes appearances.
- And sometimes, outta nowhere, Purple! Or even Clear, which, c’mon, is that even a choice? Some folks just called it water.
It was a mess. No clear trend. One year it’s one color, the next it’s something totally different. Some folks were sayin’, “Oh, it’s always the team’s primary color!” Then you look, and nope, not always. Then others whisper, “It’s the underdog’s color if they win!” More guesswork, if you ask me.
Then I started lookin’ at what other people were sayin’ online. And lemme tell ya, it’s a circus. Everyone’s an expert. Got guys breakin’ down stats that make no sense, talkin’ about the Gatorade flavor preferences of the quarterback’s third cousin. Pure madness. I even saw one theory that it depended on the city hosting the game and their local sports teams’ colors. Seriously, people will come up with anything!
And don’t get me started on the odds you see floating around. They’d shift if someone important merely looked at a Gatorade bottle, I swear. Orange would be the favorite, then suddenly Blue would surge for no good reason. It felt like they were just messin’ with us, the folks tryin’ to figure it out.
So, What Did I Do?
After all that so-called “research,” I realized somethin’. There ain’t no magic formula. It’s mostly a guess. A fun guess, but a guess nonetheless. So, I picked a color. I won’t tell you which one, don’t want to jinx it, or have you all jumpin’ on my pick and changin’ the vibe, ha!
My reasoning? Well, it was a mix of things. A little bit of what I saw in the past, a little bit of which colors hadn’t shown up in a while, and honestly, a hefty dose of just plain gut feeling. Maybe I thought one of the teams’ subtle accent colors looked good, or maybe I just liked a particular color that day. Sometimes you just gotta go with what feels right, even if it’s for somethin’ as daft as Gatorade color.
So now, I just wait. Come game day, while everyone else is bitin’ their nails over the score, I’ll have one eye on those sidelines, lookin’ for that tell-tale cooler. It’s a bit of a laugh, really. But that’s the fun of it, I guess. Trying to outsmart something that’s probably completely random. We’ll see if my “extensive research” pays off or if I just threw a few bucks away for kicks. Either way, it’s been an experience, tryin’ to crack this Gatorade code.
