Those of you who pay any attention to professional sports are aware of the discussion this summer concerning steroid use among professional athletes. For some reason I could not understand why this was such a big deal. Why was everyone so anti-steroid use? Every sports related talk show I heard condemned an athlete for using them. This irritated me but I could not figure out why. Is it really that terrible? People were claiming these athletes should have there records or accomplishment's stricken from the record. It would look like they had never played or they would have an explanation beside their records. This player used steroids.
One day it dawned on me why I was irritated. We live in a society in which people can cheat on their wives, lie, abort/kill/murder babies, and live a homosexual lifestyle. These are things which do not matter in our society, it is okay to do these things. However, if one player gets caught using steroids his name is forever tarnished. Why is steroid use such a big deal and these other issues are not? This seems to be extremely inconsistent. It is disheartening to realize people in general are more concerned about whether or not a player cheated while playing a specific sport. Concerned about padded/accurate stats but are not concerned about the lifestyle people are living. I am not condoning the use of steroids in anyway. I wonder what would happen if the commissioner of the NFL, Paul Tagliabou, would begin fining football players for cheating on their wives?
5 comments:
I'm very much in agreement.
Hey, I get to work with steriods all the time. Want some?
Wow Glen, you really hit the nail on the head with that post. I couldn't agree with you more. Keep up the great thoughts on here.
If the NFL commissioner would imposs those fines, They would have to be pretty hefty to make a dent in those outrageous salaries!
One thing is for sure, if they don't get fined in this life, they will in the hereafter. I for one do not want to be the recipient of that "fine!"
They all get steroids. When a bull becomes a steer you have to do something to make up for the hormone loss.
Another thing about steriods Paul, according to a VA Tech vet your average head of lettuce as about 20,000 times more estrogen in it than what is given to cattle in implants!
Lavern
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