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Adderall and Football
1
Sherman and Browner are young cornerbacks making the NFL minimum salary. The "newer, stronger, better, undetectable drugs" are for superstars like Ray Lewis and Brian Urlacher.
2
The overwhelming majority of football players are not super rich. They make decent money ($300K-$1M a year) for a very short period of time (2-5 years), during which they may or may not get a lifelong physical debilitation.
4
Just a thought....I will never understand why people complain about "super rich" athletes making gobs of money. People pay the money to see the players. They should get an appropriate piece of the pie. Would we all rather the money go to the owners? We are all pro union, right?
5
Bethany, you're missing the bigger story here... Did you not see Brandon Marshall's comments on Viagra?
usatoday.com/
story/gameon/2012/11/28/
nfl-marshall-viagra-use/1732105/
"I don't know too much about Adderall," Marshall told news reporters. "I know guys, it is such a competitive league, guys try anything just to get that edge. I'm fortunate enough to be blessed with size and some smarts to give me my edge. But some guys, they'll do whatever they can to get an edge. I've heard of some crazy stories. I've heard (of) guys using like Viagra, seriously. Because the blood is supposedly thin, some crazy stuff. So, you know, it's kind of scary with some of these chemicals that are in some of these things, so you have to be careful."
usatoday.com/
story/gameon/2012/11/28/
nfl-marshall-viagra-use/1732105/
"I don't know too much about Adderall," Marshall told news reporters. "I know guys, it is such a competitive league, guys try anything just to get that edge. I'm fortunate enough to be blessed with size and some smarts to give me my edge. But some guys, they'll do whatever they can to get an edge. I've heard of some crazy stories. I've heard (of) guys using like Viagra, seriously. Because the blood is supposedly thin, some crazy stuff. So, you know, it's kind of scary with some of these chemicals that are in some of these things, so you have to be careful."
6
#2 Is correct, as is #4: People think "athlete" and assume they are all being paid like baseball players, who get millions more, and play for a decade longer, and only the pitchers tend to have lifelong injuries.
What disgusts me are the people who cheer for dirty and injurious hits. These men risk their bodies and lives to give entertainment, and people get cheer when they get hurt. Disgusting.
Football players deserve vastly better benefits after they retire. They are treated like horses who are put down when they can't run anymore, forgotten by the league that depends on them, and the people who cheer for them.
What disgusts me are the people who cheer for dirty and injurious hits. These men risk their bodies and lives to give entertainment, and people get cheer when they get hurt. Disgusting.
Football players deserve vastly better benefits after they retire. They are treated like horses who are put down when they can't run anymore, forgotten by the league that depends on them, and the people who cheer for them.
7
As a guy with an Adderall prescription, I fail completely to understand how this drug could help football players in any way. This is a drug to help people sit in one place and focus one one thing for hours at a time; seems to me this is exactly the opposite of what you want on a football field. Did these idiots think it would function as some sort of poor man's steroid? Cause it don't.
8
For the love of christ Bethany nobody wants to listen to a hipster moan that pro sports drug abusers aren't taking drugs that are fucking cool enough.
Can't you toddler over to Line Out and brag about your favorite band that nobody has heard of?
Can't you toddler over to Line Out and brag about your favorite band that nobody has heard of?
9
Did you know that the NHL halts all drug testing during the playoffs? Yeah the NHL, that sport that Slog has a love affair with.
10
@7 Well, it helps concentration. Cornerbacks need to be fast. I think taking some Adderall would probably help you see plays a lot quicker. I've taken it and can totally see it helping during a fast-paced game. Plus, it affects different people differently.
11
As a lurker of the sports forums 'round the web, it sounds like Adderall is being used as a masking agent for steroids, which makes sense. The idea being that the public blowback for abusing Adderall is less than getting nailed for steroids.
12
@7 Hours and hours of watching tape among other things that require sitting still and concentrating for great amounts of time. There is a lot more to the game than banging heads for three hours each week. There are least 200 different plays that defense players need to have memorized.
A lot of these guys you call idiots are smarter than most of us on SLOG.
A lot of these guys you call idiots are smarter than most of us on SLOG.
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@ Joel Adderall is not a masking agent. I have read all the stories & forums too. I think what you are trying to refer to is that the league never actually announces what the PED is. So lots of folks claim Adderall, as it isnt perceived as negatively as steroids. However, every report I have read or heard, has stated it's Adderall with these guys. And of course, they haven actually gotten suspended yet, they still have to go through the appeals process. Isn't there something in this country about innocent until proven guilty...
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