Um, me! Because once again, it’s drugs in sports (albeit not quite steroids), but this time its happening in football. To no one’s surprise, athletes are still using these things, but the better issue becomes: How much more gentle will we be with Harrison then we would be with athletes from say a different sport?

It will be interesting to see how the public reacts to this. My opinion is not quite straightforward however, so I will break down my reaction to the news piece by piece:

Another athlete using drugs- Don’t these guys learn?
Apparently not. And you might not like me for this, but I can accept football players using HGH more so then baseball players. For all the wear and tear ballplayers go through during the rigors of a 162 game schedule, it simply doesn’t compare to the beating football players take. Baseball players can get out of bed in the mornings, football players, not always. And so to speed up the reaction time to an injury (because lets face it, football players have a much smaller window then does baseball to prove themselves and make their dough, before their considered a wash-up looking for a new career), I can almost live with this. Having said that…

It’s still wrong, but he did apologize
Halleujah. Immediately after the news Rodney came right out and apologized. “I made a mistake,” he said. (side note: Don’t you know that when you’re doing these things its wrong. And at that point it isn’t just making a mistake, merely dropping the common sense flag, and replacing it with a, catch me if you can kick me sign on the back of your shorts). Props to him however for coming right out with it. Lets face it: wrong as it may be, he didn’t waste a minute in taking the heat, and he handled himself very professionally with his apology. Having said that, I still do not condone his choice to use HGH, merely I do understand it.

Where does this leave the Patriots?
They’ll be fine. Yeah, they have a tough slate to start the year including the Chargers, but they can overcome this. Harrison will be tough to replace, but given Mr. Hoodie’s track record of piecing things together, I think New England will be just fine until his return week five.

If this was baseball…
Well, there’d be a major outrage. You can yell, scream, kick, and pout all you want, that’s the simple truth right there. Fooball can get away with it. Unfair, yes. The reality, indeed.

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