One Fan's Provocative
View of Drugs in the NFLby Hipa.kane posted June 25
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Painkillers are mimics of heroine/morphine and induce the same physical and psychological withdrawal and addictive behavior. (The chemical differences mostly changing absorption, metabolism or affinity for the target receptor) However, painkillers are given in large amounts to football players by team doctors to keep the players on the field. (Remember, Bank's shoulder? or Farve against 49rs w/o an ankle?) When a player retires he no longer needs the painkillers to keep playing, but he still has the drug addiction and withdrawal. I bet, this is what was up with Tunei.
Tunei's behavior may have been a direct consequence of the prescribed medicine of his team doctor. However, the MDMA or "XTC" shows he was using these drugs for recreation. I don't think Tunei was mean-spirited in wanting to get super high, nor do I think Little was in driving drunk. I am not sure I can say the same for LPhillips.
I think it is poetic that the owner of the Rams is an old showgirl, who made it to be an owner by being some rich fart's trophy. Football players are entertainers, just like showgirls or professional wrestlers. I think entertainers tend to often party hard, for example members of "The Who" may have gotten drunk before or shot heroine. I think, that using drugs/alcohol is often a means to escape, to form comaradrie(sp) and to celebrate. Play hard, party hard!
The problem of our society may be that we impose a strict code of conduct on guys who run around in tights and pads. This has been done with drug testing for cocaine, steroids, amphetamines and marijuanna. I understand, steroids and amphetamines and possibly coke, but only during the season. Why should we care? I think the real reason is that they shouldn't be allowed to abuse their bodies, that they have sold to the NFL and it's fans. An other reason may be that football players are worshiped by young children, while rock-stars are worshiped by teen agers. The big reason is the media, "people love it when you lose", hard times have fallen on so and so blast it everywhere. One rarely hears about the good deeds players do, only the negatives. Even, Latreel Spreewell may do many good deeds, but he is being labeled as a bad man. Pro wrestlers do this best, yesterday a kid asked Hulk Hogan, "When are you going to be a good guy again?"
But, I can't keep this arguement up any longer, because I need to get a beer, it's 10:30 and I think many pro athletes tend to be dumb jocks that never grew out of beating up the dirtheads or eggheads and trying to get the cheerleader drunk. I can't wait for our dumb jocks to beat up San Fran's dumb jocks.
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