Terry Bradshaw Admits to Steroid Use in '70s

The NFL quarterback of the '70s Terry Bradshaw admitted yesterday to using steroids to get over injuries quicker. His whole Pittsburgh Steelers team did the same. This team won four Super Bowl Championships in the decade and was called "The Iron Curtain."

This is really nothing new. I bet most the professional athletes around the world, not just football, were using steroids.

Here is what Bradshaw said on the Dan Patrick Show:

“We did steroids to get away the aches and the speed of healing. My use of steroids from a doctor was to speed up injury, and thought nothing of it. … It was to speed up the healing process, that was it. It wasn’t to get bigger and stronger and faster.”

If this was the 21st century when this happened, I would be all upset, but this was the 1970s. But, we will know how the steroids affected this team and many others by what happened in their lives after football. So be sure to check if your favorite olde time player is still alive or is healthy.

I will still watch Bradshaw on Fox NFL Sunday.

Is the NBA turning into the WWE?

Boom, Boom, Boom, Crackle, Crackle, Crackle, Boom! The athlete walks onto the scene. What sport is this? The WWE? The NBA? Both.

The NBA seems to be taking many ideas from the WWE. And they have good reason. The WWE has ratings that compare to the NFL and NASCAR. The WWE owns Monday and Friday nights with Raw and SmackDown. Each WWE Superstar has their own storyline, feud and entrance music with pyrotechnics. The NBA is copying. When teams are introduced to the fans, music is pumped throughout the arena and pyrotechnics go boom, boom throughout the arena.

And now with disgraced NBA referee Tim Donaghy saying that he was told by the league office to fix games to improve television ratings this is all coming full-circle. The NBA may be creating feuds, as does the WWE. The supposed script writers of the NBA's league offices are creating feuds that would normally not be there: Lakers vs. Suns, for instance. Or, referee Joe Crawford versus the Spurs. Could Crawford be getting told to make the calls he makes? Only he knows.

Now with NBA referees getting in the action with athletes this raises more questions. Referee Dick Bavetta ran with former player Charles Barkley at the NBA All-Star Game. And in the WWE, referee Charles Robinson was in the ring and lost to The Great Khali.

NBA and WWE referees all wear microphones to pick up sounds from the court or ring. Now NBA coaches wear microphones as well.

Bavetta was a fellow referee with Donaghy in the criticized 2002 NBA Western Conference Finals.

This all makes me wonder.

Another Championship in Boston

The Boston Celtics have won their 17th championship. Last year the Boston Red Sox won the World Series and may win again this year. The New England Patriots had a perfect season, but lost the Super Bowl. What is with this city's sports teams?