Monday, September 18, 2006

I don't like professional sports. I can't believe the amount of money people are paid to play. They are spoiled prima donnas who think they are celebrities. The gold chains, the fur coats, the high end automobiles, it all makes me want to puke.

I find myself wondering why anyone would want to coach these people. Actually you don't need to be a coach as much as you need to be a psycho-analyst. Balancing these huge egos has to be an art. Athletes who think they are above practice, above the admiring public, and above the law.

I caught the 60 Minutes segment with Bill Romanowski. Romo. This man is scary. The hatred he could harbor, the intimidation. Wow. Of course he is promoting his new book about his sixteen years in the professional football league. 271 games, without missing one. He took a hundred pills a day, ranging from vitamins, to supplements, to amino acids. He produced a large fishing tackle box complete with petitions, still filled with evidence of this. It appeared his inventory would rival many pharmacies. He was injected with living cells to promote healing from the trauma his body encountered on the field. Steroids? Yep. Of course Balco had to be in the mix somewhere (which he confirms). They assured him what he was taking was "clear". As soon as the league began testing for a particular variety, he quit taking it and moved to something else. Eventually it came to a point that he was spending $200,000 annually for performance enhancing drugs, supplements, and doctors, and he had no idea what was in many of the substances. At one point in the latter stages of his career, he got in a fight with a teammate during practice and shattered his teammates eye socket. This ended up costing him $415,000 to settle.

Throughout his career his goal wasn't just to dominate, but to destroy his opponents. Doling out cheap shots, he is without a doubt one of the most controversial players every to step on the field. His plan was to maime, hurt, remove from the game. He spoke of breaking fingers while at the bottom of a pile of players, after the play was ended, sometimes they were his opponents, sometimes they were his teammates.

Pathetic. Romo, No mo'. I won't buy the book. It has been thirty years since I bought a ticket to any type professional game. I have no intention of breaking the streak.

Yahoo sports broke an exclusive story about Reggie Bush and his family accepting money, trips, and gifts during his playing days at USC. Reggie denies it all. Yahoo claims they have the goods.

Why not make a pact between the NCAA, the professional leagues and the Player's Association. If a player is guilty of violating amateur athletic rules of the NCAA, they are banned from the professional ranks, regardless of how good they might be. If a former professional player comes clean after his career is over (like Romo hoping to make another big check with his book about cheating), or if a current player is caught violating league policy, they should be banned from playing and forfeit any future pay or retirement benefits.

Why not fans boycotting the guilty teams, and players.

Bring on Pop Warner! (But leave the parents at home).

Hey, it's just a game.

FATHER, help me to arrange my priorities and truly realize what is important. YOU.

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