Gynecomastia, imo
In dog bites man related news, star linebacker Brian Cushing has been suspended for four games by the NFL for a steroid or performance enhancing drug violation.
In the NFL, getting busted for steroids is tanatamount to being kicked out of a strip club for trying to pass off a baggie of creatine monohydrate as genuine blow. (I'm sure there's a Barker on here that can attest.)
Your offense has to be so egregious that it embarrasses the same league that allowed Tony Mandarich, Lyle Alzado, and a bevy of over-achieving meat heads to have playing weights in the 270's, only to drop down to 215 once they get in the broadcast booth.
No, I won't name names.
As for an illustration of what a steroid cocktail produced embarrassment looks like, I offer the following visual evidence.

It's also proof that God loves Vince Young. Like a son. (Thanks HenryJames)
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"I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!"
by srr50 on May 7, 2010 8:38 PM CDT reply actions
Cheating USC muthas beat another Longhorn for his rightful recognition (Cushing / Orakpo, Bush / VY, for the overly medicated).
by Lo Primero on May 7, 2010 9:29 PM CDT reply actions
A big middle finger to all the people out there that make this arguement: “He hasn’t been caught cheating so it’s not fair to say he has been!!” The people that can’t use plain old visual evidence and infer tick me the hell off. These pictures have been around a long time. If you haven’t KNOWN that he’s a doper, then you’re just an idiot.
Now, can science please catch up to Albert Pujols.
by magnusbleuveigner on May 7, 2010 9:50 PM CDT reply actions
The benefits of doping at this point (at least in Cushing’s case) outweigh the costs (what, 4 games?) so ridiculously that this can only be read as an encouragement to do so.
by fitzhume on May 7, 2010 10:14 PM CDT reply actions
I’m curious as to what the percentage of NFL players use some sort of PED.
I am saddened by this though.
Cushing was played really well for the Texans last season.
by Petey on May 7, 2010 10:32 PM CDT reply actions
Also it turns out that Ricky Martin is gay. I don’t know what to believe in anymore.
by Minnesotahorn on May 7, 2010 11:51 PM CDT reply actions
Ricky Martin, gay? Next you’ll be telling us that Rachel Maddow and George Stephanopolous are gay.
by ransomstoddard on May 8, 2010 7:59 AM CDT reply actions
Even more ridiculous were the Texans’ fans defending him during the draft. Like that steroid pass rushing freak in San Diego, he will tested daily and will suddenly become a very ordinary football player prone to injury.
Way to do your homework, Houston.
by Newy25 on May 8, 2010 8:30 AM CDT reply actions
But, but he had a shoulder injury in that first pick! He worked really, really hard in the weight room.
by Apologist on May 8, 2010 3:21 PM CDT reply actions
That’s what she said.
If you think he was juicing then you probably think a few vodka sodas mess me up. Does he have before/after titties? No, I’m guessing you just have videos illustrating work rate.
p.s. I weighed 175 lbs when I graduated high school. That’s not my current weight. Guess how much I weigh, and I’ll try my best to bench your chick.
by magnusbleuveigner on May 9, 2010 6:50 PM CDT reply actions
Just re-read that, and I sound like an ass.
by magnusbleuveigner on May 9, 2010 7:30 PM CDT reply actions
it’s perfectly normal to post your weight and claim you can bench a certain weight while taunting other posters. actually, it’s encouraged.
by dick on May 9, 2010 10:47 PM CDT reply actions
Just because he doesn’t have ‘tits’ Magnus, doesn’t mean he didn’t use. If you do it smart you don’t end up with tits. You also can’t tell just by looking at someone’s head. Or because they put on 30 pounds of muscle in a month while losing fat. Well, ok, maybe that last one….
Anyway, I like to hope that Orakpo did not use steroids. I just don’t believe that the percent of NFL players taking roids is less than 90. College football is probably a lot less, but they are just too easy to get and too easy ‘hide.’ And really, I don’t give a fuck.
by UT_06 on May 10, 2010 12:00 AM CDT reply actions
While a couple of vodka sodas don’t affect me much, apparently 9-10 do. Y’all have to excuse that post. I had the longest damn weekend ever. I’m happy to be back at work. Sending off a best friend with all the rest of your friends is a good way to get hammered.
I guess I’m just a simple minded homer, but I don’t think Rak used.
by magnusbleuveigner on May 10, 2010 7:58 AM CDT reply actions
It’s funny that this happened only because everyone knew that it would. I’m sure we are all shocked that a white outside linebacker from suburban New Jersey who somehow ended up NFL Defensive Rookie player of the year ended up getting busted. I mean, how could that have happened??? I thought he’d follow in the obviously clean footsteps of Bill Romanowski. Or Latimer
by Toadvine on May 10, 2010 9:37 AM CDT reply actions
Being reported that the banned substance was “non-steroidal”.
Does it matter?
by huge on May 10, 2010 11:54 AM CDT reply actions
huge –
No, it just means it was a forbidden masking agent.
Not to toot my own horn, but I pointed out the risk of drafting Cushing a year ago. He’s an excellent player, but he’s a chemical experiment. If he doesn’t cycle and mask correctly, you’ve gotten yourself a liability. And if he stops doing PEDs, you’ve got a very average football player.
http://barkingcarnival.fantake.com/2009/04/03/cushing-matthews-jr-these-arent-the-roids-youre-looking-for/
by Scipio Tex on May 10, 2010 1:41 PM CDT reply actions
Personally, I’d wished we’d had some juice heads on that pathetic offensive line last year. It was so full of squishy dough, Pillsbury was spotted scouting for future talent at Rose Bowl.
Look we are a pill popping, medicating, enhancing society…….why do the athletes get the heat? We need to grow up and realize one thing. Enhancement doesn’t trump genetics, training, or ability.
Bottom line: make ball get points, crowd buy ticket, make paycheck bigger….juice and repeat.
Do we have lower standards for our actors and actresses that mutilate themselves to enhance their on camera appearance or extend their careers?
Do you want to go to a strip club full of small breasted dancers? NO, we want hideously fake freakish things we don’t get to see everyday. It’s the girl with the yellow hair, dark tan, tank top and big fakies that you look at first when they walk by.
What the hell does “natural” mean anymore?
If there was a pill that would make you a better salesman only if you spent long hours in training seminars,.and it shrank your nuggets…..would you take it? If Daddy makes salesmen of the month, do you start checking the medicine cabinet?
Seriously, don’t tell me you don’t like your comedians coked up, and your stock broker on the verge of a heart attack. Everyone knows the best song writers are on heroin. The come back “after rehab” albums always suck.
The fans and the media need to smoke a joint. Maybe they’d chill out, watch the game, and simply enjoy the high level of juiced up competition the athletes provide. It’s entertainment.
….Now that does sound like an ass.
by Saltshaker on May 10, 2010 1:53 PM CDT reply actions
I care only because I’ve been trying to become a Texans fan and a juiced-up Cushing is pretty damn good linebacker. Sucks to lose him for four games. But yeah, NFL players are basically like machines of war to me — no one complains when we re-tool a piece of weaponry to make it more effective.
by Toadvine on May 10, 2010 2:12 PM CDT reply actions
by Sailor Ripley on May 10, 2010 2:59 PM CDT reply actions
A test, I assume, that involved drowning witches?
by Toadvine on May 10, 2010 3:12 PM CDT reply actions
Saltshaker -
You make a lot of good points, and i really only have one retort. Hypothetically, in a league where steroids are allowed, I would hate to see a very good player (player A) not on steroids feel that he has to take health risks to compete with the guys who are juicing, when in a non-steroid league, player A would be kicking ass and those other little shits would be cut in training camp. Players shouldn’t have to take steroids if they don’t want to. If you allow steroids, then they all have to take them to stay in the league.
by Nero on May 10, 2010 7:36 PM CDT reply actions
Salt -
Go rent the doc Bigger, Faster, Stronger. Explores a lot of those same themes.
by Scipio Tex on May 10, 2010 10:05 PM CDT reply actions
I think we lived through Saltshaker’s world already… and there’s just something unseemly about watching guys you rooted for drop dead in the prime of life.
At their best, sports speak to the greatest elements of humanity, but there’s a point where they appeal to the worst. And essentially making athletes into a gladiatorial class, pressuring them to take steps which give them huge immediate rewards at the price of their futures, well… that turns out to be way beyond that point. If we really wanted to accept a completely results-oriented philosophy, with no regard to the finest elements of sportsmanship, we’d all be Sooner fans…
by The Bobs on May 11, 2010 8:45 AM CDT reply actions
At their best, sports speak to the greatest elements of humanity, but there’s a point where they appeal to the worst.
Yeah. It’s not ‘sports’, it’s money and fame. Simple as that.
You don’t see Women’s Field Hickey players hitting the juice.
by Sailor Ripley on May 11, 2010 10:00 AM CDT reply actions
Plus it’s be much harder to visually prove. I mean, they already have bitch tits.
by Toadvine on May 11, 2010 10:16 AM CDT reply actions
So it was a fertility drug. Can we really fault a guy for wanting to be (re)productive?
by magnusbleuveigner on May 11, 2010 5:00 PM CDT reply actions
That was an awesome cow in Scipio’s trailor link. I wonder if I can get my wife’s cat to look like that.
by UT_06 on May 11, 2010 10:54 PM CDT reply actions
Cushing keeping his ROY illustrates the percieved difference between roiding up in baseball and football in the minds of sports writers.
McGwire should have played football. Well, not Dan.
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