I Used Performance Enhancing Drugs to Write This Article

You all know by now that Brian Cushing tested positive for having tested positive for a low level of hCG in his system last September. HCG is a female fertility drug. The purpose of the drugs in females is self explanatory, but for a male to have it in his system is normally used by steroid users to help restart natural testosterone production. HCG can mitigate the side effects of ending a cycle of drugs.

Of course, Cushing denied having ever taking performance enhancing drugs and stated he had no clue where the positive test had come from. I would love for an athlete to one day to just own up to a positive steroid test initially. Athletes have come forward and admitted to steroid use, but only after their careers were over. Some players have just chose not to say anything only except for an apology to the fans and organization, sort of like a no contest plea.

Football players are big and bad and make decisions in a split second which most often means putting their body in harms way of a train wreck like collision for their team. It’s funny how these big bad football players cower at the thought of being upfront and honest when it comes to steroid use. America is a forgiving country and we love giving second chances. All Cushing had to do was admit to using steroids, state that he tested positive in September, and that all of his subsequent tests were negative and this was the first and last time he’ll ever take or be tested positive for steroids ever again. All this, “I don’t know how I tested positive” BS needs to stop. Cushing should have gone with his natural instinct when he sees a fullback headed straight toward him full speed — take it head on, blow it up, and move onto the next play.

Now onto the Associated Press re-voting on his NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year award. The AP re-voted and Cushing re-won the award. It was by a much slimmer margin this time, but the bottom line is that he still won. This is football not baseball so all the re-voting mess needs to go away and never come back. He tested positive in September and had several test later that all came up negative. People say he should have been suspended earlier which would have caused him to miss 4 games and only play in 12 and probably not amass the sick numbers he put up as a rookie. Shoulda, woulda, coulda, Cushing played in 16 games, you can’t play game of what if he only played 12 games. He played in the games he did, and played clean giving all of his negative test that followed his positive test. If I had to re-vote, I wouldn’t, but if a gun was placed to my head, I’d vote for Cushing again.

I love what some of the writers did. Two that voted originally chose not to vote basically because the re-vote was stupid to begin with. One voter who originally voted for 2nd place finisher of the Buffalo Bills, safety Jarius Bird, switched his vote to Brian Cushing. He did it to just to make a statement and screw the system, showing that if the AP wants to force voters to re-vote this type of nonsense could also happen.

Either way Cushing and other athletes who test positive in the future just need to own up from the get go, and the Associated Press needs to never bring back this nonsense of a re-vote when it comes to football.

That’s all I got,

Ricky Writer

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