But He Was So Good on the Old "NFL Today"

Sportscaster Brent Musburger blindsided most of the sports world when he told a group of journalism students that athletes should be permitted to use steroids under a doctor's supervision. Musburger proceeded to tell the students that negative perceptions around steroids and its health risks were the result of uninformed "journalism youngsters" who "got too deeply involved in something they didn't no too much about."

It seems too much like a bizarre rant from someone who was suffering from a low-carbohydrate diet, which caused him to suffer a chemical imbalance in conjunction with consuming alcohol (inside joke referencing story here). Musburger apparently seemed to believe that the things that we read about steroids is tainted because any sort of doctor anecdotes are tainted as they are passed along by journalists. Whew, that's a relief, now that I know that it I ought to disregard any news passed along by journalists, I can significantly prune my reading material.

Now back to the odd premise, does Musburger really think that the use of steroids is a good thing? I guess to his point, "they work", but with the downside of significant adverse health effects. Doesn't anyone remember Lyle Alzado, who succumbed to cancer largely attributed to his steroid abuse? How about the well publicized case of teenager Tyler Hooten, who experience a host of mental health problems related to steroid abuse, leading to his suicide?

Does Musburger really equate the legitimate use of steroids in a therapeutic medical context with the use as a athletic performance enhancer?

It's not quite as bad as Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder's rant about black athletes, but it's clearly not a shining moment from the old "NFL Today" cast.