Post subject: So Terry Bradshaw admitted he used steroids....
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 7:53 pm
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and nobody seems to care. If this isn't overwhelming evidence that the NFL can do no wrong in the eyes of its fans and the media...and MLB is held to a ridiculously high standard, then I don't know what is.
If a high profile championship player from the 1970's (Reggie Jackson? Johnny Bench?) came out and said this, I'm convinced it would be front page news.
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Bradshaw, however, clarified his position yesterday during an interview with the New York Daily News. He said he was referring to therapeutical corticosteroid injections and not anabolic steroids, which are banned by the NFL.
Corticosteroids, which are used to reduce inflammation, are not on the NFL's list of banned substances.
"I'm not bodybuilding here," Bradshaw told the Daily News. "They were not those kind of steroids. They were anti-inflammatories."
gee, maybe the media outlets haven't picked up on it because it's NOT AN ISSUE. lock er up
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Post subject: Re: So Terry Bradshaw admitted he used steroids....
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 8:50 pm
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Joined: Sun Feb 26, 2006 3:28 am Posts: 28541 Location: PORTLAND, ME
per your source:
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He played his entire career in Pittsburgh and said he "thought nothing of" taking steroids in an attempt to recover from injuries. He told Patrick that steroid use resulted from the culture that prevailed when he played.
Players, Bradshaw said, were expected to play through just about any injury.
"If you could walk and halfway talk, you played," he told Patrick. "We took shots, got shot up. We did steroids to get rid of aches and speed up the healing."
Bradshaw, now a Fox NFL studio analyst, said the NFL and NFL Players Association do a much better job of curbing steroid use through random testing, sanctions for players caught taking steroids and education.
The NFL didn't test for steroids when Bradshaw played.
"I think our league and (players') association is doing a good job now of testing and trying to make sure these players are aware of what can happen," Bradshaw said on the show. "You get caught now, it affects you."
so why didn't he just say that he got cortisone shots?
he used the word steroid, that's what got a rise out of people. not to mention, toward the end of this quote it sounds like he's refering to them (anabolic & cortico) as one in the same. despite the fact that now we're suppose to believe that there's a difference in the "steroid" that he's talking about.
we're talking about the 70's folks, medicines be a little different than they was then.
who cares i'm sick of steroids talk, enough already.
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