3.30.2005

Punter on 'Roids
I usually could care less about the NFL at this time of the year, but this is absolutely hilarious. Along with two of his teammates, punter Todd Sauerbrun has been accused of taking steroids back in the Carolina Panthers' Super Bowl season in 2002-03.

Okay. His two teammates, offensive linemen Todd Stussie and Jeff Mitchell, I understand. They are offensive lineman, they are paid to be bigger, faster and stronger than the person on the other side of them. But a punter? Are you kidding me? What, so he can kick the ball two yards farther?

What is funny is that Sauerbrun had a reputation as a bad punter in Chicago, but became a Pro Bowler in Carolina...Steroids couldn't have helped that much, could it have? Maybe the steroid problem runs a lot deeper than we all think. When does it come out that tennis players and golfers are on the juice? How long before we hear that a bowler is 'roiding up?

Shouldn't we have suspected something though? How many other punters have the balls to get a barbed-wire tattoo?

4:38 PM