Sports and the juice!

For years I have been a sports fan! I have turned from an avid fan to a casual fan.Not because of what is going on in sports but because I have found so many other things to do.One topic that seems to be on every sports show is the use of performance enhancing drugs,steroids or my favourite "the juice".

The juice is talked about in most sports thus the constant testing of athletes from all types of sports. The governing body of most sports just don't test for a specific substance they also test for the mask substance or the substance you would take to hide that you was taking a banned substance.If that makes sense.

Fans, team owners,the sports media, sponsors and even governments expect normal human beings to perform superhuman feats.The body was only design to do so much, no matter how much "grit and determination" one has. A certain athlete has won an event so many times and has never come under much scrutiny.He has passed all of his tests but couldn't he have found something that cannot be detected?Other athletes are villains while some are revered.

An athlete is placed under so much pressure,granted most make salaries that could clear some countries national debt,but don't we want them not to be ordinary. We want to see men and women run as fast as locomotives.We want to see muscle bound men crash into each other at phenomenal speeds. We want to see someone hit a ball so hard and high it alters the flight pattern of a passing jumbo jet. We want superheroes.

Isn't Superman powered by the sun.The Hulk a radioactive experiment gone wrong.God made flesh and bones not pistons and fuel injected carburetors. Maybe if less emphasis was placed on how incredible it was that men were playing children's games then the juice may stop flowing.

It is no use telling a kid playing sports, don't take the juice, but you have to leap tall buildings in a single bound if you want to make it.It's all entertainment nothing more,nothing less. Actors use makeup, athletes use steroids. Yes steroids destroys the body,and athletes from high school varsity to the pros know this and they still do it.In a weird sort of way they are doing it for you, the avid sports fan. The fan who cries when their team loses.The fan who riots in the streets when their team wins.In some extreme cases, who murders a player for scoring for the other team.

My belief is that everybody does it just that some get caught and some drugs just aren't illegal.So sports' fan, the next time a modern day athlete is about to break one of your revered hero records under suspicion that he was on the juice, remember he is doing it for you and those million dollar homes and wife he has to maintain. He or she is doing it so that you could live out your childhood fantasy through them.

Just get the juice and let's PLAY BALL!