Posted on 03/21/2015 11:26:46 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Former National Football League quarterback Fran Tarkenton says the prevalence of performance enhancing drugs likely played a role in the decision by San Francisco 49ers linebacker Chris Borland to quit football after playing professionally for just one year.
"What this guy's really saying at 24, retiring after one year . . . and walking away because if he knows if he's going to continue for another 10 years, he's got to shoot himself up with PEDs that's going to do all kinds of bad things to him," Tarkenton told J.D. Hayworth on "America's Forum" on Newsmax TV on Friday.
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For the same reason children don’t vote, drive, or drink alcohol; they are children without the ability to make informed decisions.
That is true for football as well.
I’m genuinely happy for them; glad it is working out.
I can remember the NHL’s Derek Sanderson being a classic case. He began doing PEDs back in the early 1970s, in addition to being in deep with booze, women and dope, and he says the PEDs really did the serious damage to him physically.
IF this is not true, I hope the kid sues the hell out of Tarkenton.
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