Goodell: Pot is bad, mmmmmkay?

[LostInDaJungle]

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2017/04/28/roger-goodell-marijuana-is-addictive-and-unhealthy/

 

Yes, we would hate for the players we get addicted to pain killers so they can play through serious injuries to do something as addictive and unhealthy as marajuana. Besides, we have advertisers like Budweiser and Miller that wouldn't care for that.

 

When a guy suffers a major concussion, I want to know his eyes are glazed from severe brain trauma not from some OG Kush. That way we can shoot him full of Toradol and get him back out on the field! After all, there's Millions of dollars riding on these guys at Draft Kings, the official fantasy football gambling website of the NFL.

[HavePityPlease]

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Listen, you’re ingesting smoke, so that’s not usually a very positive thing that people would say. It does have addictive nature. There are a lot of compounds in marijuana that may not be healthy for the players long-term.

 

This guy is so out of touch he thinks these ancient talking points still hold water.  How long until a player dies from a Fentanyl overdose?  "Tragic" they'll say, then cut to commercial:  "Duragesic.  For pain that regular medications can't handle.  Possible side effects include:  Death."

 

[T-Dub]

12 minutes ago, HavePityPlease said:

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This guy is so out of touch he thinks these ancient talking points still hold water.  How long until a player dies from a Fentanyl overdose?  "Tragic" they'll say, then cut to commercial:  "Duragesic.  For pain that regular medications can't handle.  Possible side effects include:  Death."

 

 

 

Ask your doctor about habit-forming opioids with severe side effects!  Because that's why you go to a doctor, right? To get prescription drugs for your self-diagnosed health problems?

 

 

Maybe we should drug test Goodell.

[LostInDaJungle]

14 minutes ago, HavePityPlease said:

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This guy is so out of touch he thinks these ancient talking points still hold water.  How long until a player dies from a Fentanyl overdose?  "Tragic" they'll say, then cut to commercial:  "Duragesic.  For pain that regular medications can't handle.  Possible side effects include:  Death."

 

 

Also: Never heard of vaping or edibles.

 

Goodell doesn't have a problem with players living on 1,000 Vicodin a month washed down with tequila...

 

"We've taken guys in their forties who were weeks or days from dying on a 1,000-Vikes-a-month-and-tequila diet."

 

"Pain-pill dependence is the NFL's dirty secret, and the next wave of trouble to breach its shore. In a months-long investigation involving dozens of former players, as well as their attorneys, physicians, and addiction counselors, what emerges is a picture of a professional league so swamped by narcotics that it closes its eyes to medical malpractice by many of its doctors and trainers. It does so not because it lacks the will to police its staff and players, but because the game itself could not survive without these powerful drugs. "The wear and tear on our spines and knees – we all had to take that to play," says Richard Dent, the Hall of Fame terror of those great Chicago Bears defenses of the 1980s and 1990s, who is now hobbled by back pain and headaches. "We got pills from a trainer, and where he got them, I don't know. But we were all involved with that."

 

"Your body ain't made to go through a wall 50, 60 times a game," says Fred McCrary, a Super Bowl fullback with the New England Patriots in 2003, now belabored by bum shoulders and daily migraines. "By week three, they'd give you whatever you wanted – and, still, guys smoked weed for the pain."

 

"Our doctors, who've seen everything, were shocked when they saw these guys; their prescription-pill addictions were literally deadly," says Smith over her steak salad."

 

http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/the-nfls-secret-drug-problem-20121127