Hostile: hats off to you for keeping it real. Anabolic steroids have taken on a palor of late for some unknown reason. I don't want to ramble about it or beat a dead horse, but....
I think the school of thought that taking them is cheating is really pretty closed minded. Here's why I say that: I too played college football for both 1a and 1aa schools. A few of the players on the 1aa team used steroids...most didn't, but only because they couldn't afford them. Back then, EVERYONE would use them if they could acquire them. The 1a school was different. I didn't know anyone who DIDN'T use them. That's right....even our kicker. Keep in mind there are different results from different drugs. Some build big bulk, others will hardly add 2 lbs over a cycle, but will GREATLY enhance stamina and regeneration. Along those lines, several basketball players were heavy users with no regard for health concerns. I say all this to make a point that, regardless of how bad people want to portray the drugs, they are a fact of life in ALL professional sports and further, they are probably necessary to even compete on a level field. I (and some others on this board) have been exposed to sports on the college level....are we to really believe that college players use the drugs to get to the pro level, then stop in order to be "fair"?? Nope. As for HGH, that is a whole other topic and a completely different class of drug. For the record, there has never been a study of any kind conducted on long term health issues suffered by anabolic steroid users, so the argument about causing cancer, so on and so forth is complete speculation. ZERO data about long term use. A plethora of short term side effects, but all seem to cease when use ceases. End chapter 1.
