Here's The Truth: They Work
October 8th 2010 17:51
Brent Musberger, at the age of 71, is one of the most well-known, highly-regarded, and longest-tenured sports casters in the world. He's called the past three college football national championships, and is well known for his "it's a foot-race" on a breakaway run and "You are looking live" to start off a big telecast on the humongous ABC/ESPN network. Even though in the 80's he may have been dismissed from CBS, and shared information that was private to the game-plan of the USC Trojans in the middle of a game he announced, it seemed like his reputation wasn't very tarnished. But now, at least in my mind, it has gotten worse.
Musberger told students at the University of Montana Wednesday, that under a doctor's supervision, it could be fine for professional athletes to use steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs. While he stated it wasn't right for high-school students to use these drugs, he said that doctors could make it where the athlete could gain performance without hurting his or her body. So just as the steroid issue seemed like it was fizzing out a bit, one of the top sports icons that neither plays or coaches, had to open his mouth on the subject in this way. "They come in with a negative view and they take it from there," Musberger said when talking about journalists covering steroids. He also called them as "...youngsters out there covering sports (who) got too deeply involved in something they didn't know too much about." I'm starting to think Musberger is the one that doesn't know much.
When first asked about the situation, Musberger plainly spewed, "Here's the truth: they work." That's true. They also cause heart-attack, cancer, and stroke, among many other things. I don't know that under supervision from a doctor would make things too much better in the long-run. steroids are steroids, and why I may not know too much about these substances besides reading books like "Juiced" by Jose Canseco, and "Game of Shadows" by a couple of San Franciso Chronicle writers, I will take a well-known doctor's opinion over a non-medical professional any day. "He's categorically wrong, and if he'd like to spend a day in my office, I can show him voluminous literature going back decades about the adverse effects of steroids." Those are the words from Dr. Gary Wadler, who determines what can and can't be "used" for the olympics, while working with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).
For better explaining, we could just use an example. A baseball player hear's from others around the league that this stuff really works to help that player recover from an injury. The player decides to use it to recover faster, and all of a sudden the player feels stronger and has more endurance than ever. The player wins MVP, and all of a sudden he must perform at that rate consistently, so he continues "stacking". Finally, when the player has "used" so much, he gets addicted, and even after he retires he can't stay away from drugs, and ends up being arrested for using cocaine. He winds up in jail, gets out of jail, only to die at the tender age of 41 because of a heart attack that many believe was caused by the steroids that he overly-used, and lead to him using not only that drug, but also cocaine. That man is 1996 NL MVP Ken Caminiti, who died in 2004. You can say that times have changed, and people are more "in the know" about how they stack and spread when using, but steroids is steroids, and they can lead not only to problems for you, but also problems for the people these athletes are around, with the sudden mood changes, and the rages that steroids cause.
Another thing is, if let's say, 90% percent of football players decided to use in whatever doses the doctors had them at, would the athlete know if he was getting to much, until it was too late further on in life? Would the league know what doctors could be trusted to correctly super-vise the players? First of all, the league would most likely never allow it, and even if they did, Musberger's view of keeping the dosages light would be stretched and stretched until there would be chaos about over-dosing. Plus, if everyone is using, then everyone is at the next level of competitive "edge", but that edge word would be thrown out, because there is no edge if everyone else is using it too.
In conclusion, Musberger should have never said what he said. He doesn't have the information to speak about this issue, and maybe I don't either, but here's one last thing to show you Brent, if your second-guessing that the effects of steroids are bad in football or any other sport. Even with his many years where he got physically beaten around just by playing the violent sport of football, Lyle Alzado, who was near death when he said these remarks, blamed steroids for his horrible decline in health: "I'm sick, and I'm scared. 90% of the athletes I know are on the stuff. We're not born to be 300 pounds or jump 30 feet. But all the time I was taking steroids. I knew they were making me play better. I became very violent on the field and off. I did things only crazy people do. Now look at me. My hair's gone, I wobble when I walk and have to hold on to someone for support, and I have trouble remembering things. My last wish? That no one else dies this way." Yeah, they work alright.
Musberger told students at the University of Montana Wednesday, that under a doctor's supervision, it could be fine for professional athletes to use steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs. While he stated it wasn't right for high-school students to use these drugs, he said that doctors could make it where the athlete could gain performance without hurting his or her body. So just as the steroid issue seemed like it was fizzing out a bit, one of the top sports icons that neither plays or coaches, had to open his mouth on the subject in this way. "They come in with a negative view and they take it from there," Musberger said when talking about journalists covering steroids. He also called them as "...youngsters out there covering sports (who) got too deeply involved in something they didn't know too much about." I'm starting to think Musberger is the one that doesn't know much.
When first asked about the situation, Musberger plainly spewed, "Here's the truth: they work." That's true. They also cause heart-attack, cancer, and stroke, among many other things. I don't know that under supervision from a doctor would make things too much better in the long-run. steroids are steroids, and why I may not know too much about these substances besides reading books like "Juiced" by Jose Canseco, and "Game of Shadows" by a couple of San Franciso Chronicle writers, I will take a well-known doctor's opinion over a non-medical professional any day. "He's categorically wrong, and if he'd like to spend a day in my office, I can show him voluminous literature going back decades about the adverse effects of steroids." Those are the words from Dr. Gary Wadler, who determines what can and can't be "used" for the olympics, while working with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).
For better explaining, we could just use an example. A baseball player hear's from others around the league that this stuff really works to help that player recover from an injury. The player decides to use it to recover faster, and all of a sudden the player feels stronger and has more endurance than ever. The player wins MVP, and all of a sudden he must perform at that rate consistently, so he continues "stacking". Finally, when the player has "used" so much, he gets addicted, and even after he retires he can't stay away from drugs, and ends up being arrested for using cocaine. He winds up in jail, gets out of jail, only to die at the tender age of 41 because of a heart attack that many believe was caused by the steroids that he overly-used, and lead to him using not only that drug, but also cocaine. That man is 1996 NL MVP Ken Caminiti, who died in 2004. You can say that times have changed, and people are more "in the know" about how they stack and spread when using, but steroids is steroids, and they can lead not only to problems for you, but also problems for the people these athletes are around, with the sudden mood changes, and the rages that steroids cause.
Another thing is, if let's say, 90% percent of football players decided to use in whatever doses the doctors had them at, would the athlete know if he was getting to much, until it was too late further on in life? Would the league know what doctors could be trusted to correctly super-vise the players? First of all, the league would most likely never allow it, and even if they did, Musberger's view of keeping the dosages light would be stretched and stretched until there would be chaos about over-dosing. Plus, if everyone is using, then everyone is at the next level of competitive "edge", but that edge word would be thrown out, because there is no edge if everyone else is using it too.
In conclusion, Musberger should have never said what he said. He doesn't have the information to speak about this issue, and maybe I don't either, but here's one last thing to show you Brent, if your second-guessing that the effects of steroids are bad in football or any other sport. Even with his many years where he got physically beaten around just by playing the violent sport of football, Lyle Alzado, who was near death when he said these remarks, blamed steroids for his horrible decline in health: "I'm sick, and I'm scared. 90% of the athletes I know are on the stuff. We're not born to be 300 pounds or jump 30 feet. But all the time I was taking steroids. I knew they were making me play better. I became very violent on the field and off. I did things only crazy people do. Now look at me. My hair's gone, I wobble when I walk and have to hold on to someone for support, and I have trouble remembering things. My last wish? That no one else dies this way." Yeah, they work alright.
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