Steelers used Roids

[FearTheRaven]

Terry Bradshaw was all 'roided up

By MJD

I doubt that it's going to cause much of an uproar or that anyone will be calling for asterisks on the four Super Bowl trophies that the Steelers won in the 70s (although Patriots fans might want to leave it in their backpocket as kind of a trump card), but Terry Bradshaw admitted last week that he used steroids during his playing career.

If you're detecting a lack of surprise in my tone, congratulations on being perceptive. I already looked at the 70s Steelers as doing for steroids what the Bill Walsh 49ers did for the west coast offense. The 'roids were legal then, no one was testing for it, and there's no way the Steelers were the only ones. At the time, no one knew any better.
Here's what Bradshaw said on Dan Patrick's radio show:

“We did steroids to get away the aches and the speed of healing. My use of steroids from a doctor was to speed up injury, and thought nothing of it. … It was to speed up the healing process, that was it. It wasn’t to get bigger and stronger and faster.”​

That may not have been the intent, but according to Jim Haslett, that's what it did. And while we're on the subject of unintended side effects, now might also be an appropriate time to mention that 70s Steelers are are dying off like NYC construction workers in The Happening.


Doesn't really surprise me.


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[YourAllAmerican]

Other than possible longterm health issues old NFLers are suffering, this is really kind of a non-story in my opinion. Steriods were legal then and people were not as informed about what the drugs do to your body.

Pro football was changing rapidly in the 1970s. The sport paid enough that players didn't have to get offseason jobs and they could devote the full year to training. Steroids became widely available and it was perfectly OK to use them, meaning the trend of bigger, stronger players built upon itself.

The '70s was the decade when pro football really exploded in popularity. The downside was that it led to the laboratory-created monsters that are the rule and not the exception these days.

 

[Gaz]

Agreed, a non-issue. Wasn't illegal then. It's kind of like lying...if you know something is not true, a lie and you say it, you're lying. If you just don't know then you're just an idiot.

Steroids for stronger, bigger, faster didn't work for Bradshaw anyway

 

[Mr_Mark]

i thhought he used em to heal and recover faster not preformance enhancement??

 

[tatehill2000]

old news,,, steroids,,,and ESPECIALLYYY HGH is Prolific in the NFL,,, they dont want to change it,, EVERY Lineman,,, every running back, every receiver, every Linebacker,,,

Only cats that usually dont mess with em are Kickers, and a few QBS, but just as TB stated, you get injured, you get on the juice,,,

the NFL Owns the DEA,,, they are virtually untouchable,,,

Tater

 

[Kingofhearts]

Love how people hate against steroids now simply because "they are illeagaL"

You can't leave it to the government to decide what is legal and not legal. I make my own laws and follow them accordingly.

I could go on and on but I won't