March 26, 2004

Chilling Out on the Football Field

By BETHANY BROIDA

From the university that gave athletes Gatorade comes an invention that -- though its creator admits it seems goofy -- could revolutionize the world of sports. It involves blowing cold air on football players' shoulders.

"It is really a silly idea," says co-inventor Nikolaus Gravenstein, chairman of the anesthesiology department at the University of Florida College of Medicine.

But heat and humidity are no laughing matter for athletes. Heat-related illness is the

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