D2: Steroids in Sports

                When many people think of steroids they think of sports because sports and steroids/performance enhancing drugs coincide perfectly with sports. The names that mainly pop up in this topic are the big hitters, Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, and Sam Sosa. These men have been convicted and have been proven to have used steroids in baseball. The one question that people ask is, do PEDs make sports more interesting. The answer usually is, no because they want everyone on an equal playing field, but there is that small group of people that find that when people use steroids it creates a certain sense of entertainment in a sport because there is that hidden fact. To me personally I find that steroids don’t make the game interesting, that they ruin the sport that they are being used. A guy may get a higher signing bonus than another person because they used steroids and the other person didn’t. Many current and former NFL players have used steroids or some form of a Performance Enhancing Drugs, Shawne Merriman, Deacon Jones (HOF), Deion Sanders (HOF), Julius Peppers, Jimbo Covert, Steve McMichael, Shaun Rogers, Tony Mandarich, Dan Pastorini, Marcus Stroud, Tim Couch, Ron Yary (HOF), Ricky Williams, David Boston, Ray Edwards, Rodney Harrison, Joe Klecko, Bill Romanowski, John Matuszak, Mike Webster (HOF), Rocky Bleier, Mike Golic, Shawn Springs, Brian Bosworth, etc., these were not the only NFL players to use steroids, but these former and current players are the most interesting because some of them had star studded careers. Other well-known athletes that may have used PEDs include Ben Johnson former Olympic Sprinter for the Canadian Track and Field Team, Alex Rodriguez who signed the largest contract in MLB history at an astonishing 275 million dollars, Lance Armstrong, Marion Jones, the governator Arnold Schwarzenegger, etc. There is always a common theme with many athletes that use some form of PEDs, their body always seems to break down later in their career, I don’t know much about the after effects of the PEDs, but I think it is just bad karma for them cheating. In the words of the late Johnny Cash, “God gonna cut them down”. I guess he did.