UFC President Dana White told the media at last week’s UFC 235 presser that USADA is needed because this isn’t a sport where athletes put a ball through a hoop or over a fence. He is not the first to make this point, but in light of Super Bowl 53, it’s time to revisit this argument. The NFL – the most successful domestic sports league in the United States by a wide margin – named New England Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman the MVP. This season, however, Edelman was suspended four games for a PED violation. An opinion columnist in USA Today noted the NFL doesn’t seem to care about stamping about steroids or PED use, generally.
She’s right, but also wrong.The NFLPA also doesn’t care as they helped the NFL craft their anti-doping program. Nor do the broadcast networks nor the advertisers nor the fans. No one in the stakeholder position is concerned. Interestingly, however, the sport has an injury load equal to or surpassing that of mixed martial arts. At a bare minimum, the two are comparable. How can it be, then, that two sports with high and serious injury loads that affect brain health and quality of life have wildly divergent attitudes towards what to do about it? The answer is that MMA suffers from a media-driven moral panic and has overcorrected to fix the problem.
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also too from the aspect of world class athletes trying to recover from this traumatic damage by going to vitamin store and GNC taking products that a housewife or weekend warrior gym rat would take to recover is preposterous NASCAR National Lions of stock car racing does not use Parts you can get from fucking AutoZone to race nor does it use regular gasoline because the performance demands on those vehicles are greater than that of which anyone could use on a road in the streets that being said to ask maximal performance of human abilities the least amount of recovery from the nutritional aspects of regular food and regular training is nonsensical. If you want to say that these athletes should just drink milk and take Flintstone vitamins you're crazy these people should have access in a regulated fashion to the best technology has to offer for asking them to do superhuman things let's give them the things that they just keep it out in the open so if people don't want to use their Lords they have that option but you should not ban people from using them because they clearly help
This might be the worst take on the internet
Does anyone care what a female reporter has to say on Male sports!
1st off MMA fans != NFL fans
2cnd I think the suspension guidelines should change for the UFC
3rd Most people get over it when guys pop Anderson still has fan support, Vitor, Mir, etc.
Jon Jones who I'm assuming this is partially about has done so much more than just pop he has
1. Ruined entire cards
2. Popped multiple times
3. Hit and run on pregnant woman
4. Puts out false choir boy fronts
5. Is arrogant
Etc. Etc. Etc.
People make a bigger deal about Jon because they dislike him and he's at the pinnacle of the sport. Look at Werdum who just popped, really likeable good guy, also doesn't have droves of fans calling for him to be banned for life or whatever, also a shining example of why suspension guidelines should change.
Oh and the average NFL fan is ignorant af and can't conceive their idol may be banging gear in the off season. They think the moment you bang 200mg of test cyp and annavar into your ass your life is ruined and you're gonna die lol. They don't even know what test cyp and annavar even are. I'm actually confused sometimes when co workers tell me MMA is barbaric when their kid plays full contact football. Football fans are in denial about their sport and always will be. Where is the Hysteria from fans about Werdum??? Also imagine Tom Brady popping for PED's that sir would be a shit show. But I do 100% think you are correct that the suspensions handed down by USADA are ridiculous and not designed for pro sports but for Olympic sports, nail on the head with that one. Good video Luke keep em coming.
Only way I'm OK with roids is if everyone can take them across the board not only the big names that move the needle.
Money is too goood
The difference is the optics. MMA = Shirts off, you can see the musculature difference, visible lacerations, hematoma's, sometimes enormous amounts of blood, twitching/seizure like knockouts, merciless finishes that sometimes go one for too long, one on one.
NFL= Uniformed (and visored = anonymity) less obvious physical differences (to a point of course, I mean between positions) all injuries appear internal – no visible blood. Knockouts and injuries are valourized – standing ovations, both teams check on injured player – injuries occur with one shot, not 5 brutal hammer fists.
Optics Luke, Optics
Luke, do you know what a whataboutism is?
NFL doesn't care because they know 16 games in 17 weeks aint right. They know the body isn't made to play a game on Sunday then that next Thursday.