Hey, At Least He Doesn't Wanna Kiss You...

So for those of you who didn't seen it (myself included), Terry Bradshaw was on Jay Leno Monday night. Not sure how this one missed me, but my friend Megan alerted me to it earlier yesterday...

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I'm sure she'll be thrilled that I'm posting this up. Sorry Megan, that's what you get for being my friend.

Anyways, you really need to well, watch the video. I was going to just lift the code from Gawker and paste it over here, but then I decided I didn't feel like getting sued.

Let's just say the ol' Blonde Bomber sounded like he got bombed himself...right before the show. Hopefully he did some Whiskey Shots with Mean Joe and Mel Blount because that'd be awesome.

Frankly, I'm not even going to speculate as to what else he's on. But...it's probably crystal meth. I mean, who ISN'T on crystal meth these days? Nobody, if you ask me.

It's either that or he's going through Howie Long withdrawal.

Smart money's on the latter.

Go chick 'er out fer yerself [Deadspin]

In case you didn't get the headline, see...

I doubt very many of you needed that memory jog...

Bradshaw Sparks More Than Just Controversy...

Perhaps you've heard this one already. But umm, apparently Terry Bradshaw, 4-time Super Bowl winning QB and current Fox NFL puppet analyst, admitted last Thursday that he did steroids back in the 70s. How that admission went unnoticed until yesterday is beyond me...

Anyways, I have yet to listen to the interview myself. But apparently Bradshaw's stance on 'roids was the equivalent of...

"Guys in high school did steroids all the time. It was no big deal."

Though his literal statement was...

"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."

Fine, I'll accept that. As much as I'd heard about the heyday Steelers and their supposed penchant for Barry Bonds Cocktails performance enhancing drugs, I still didn't believe it. Now, I guess I have no other choice.

However, what I'd really like to talk about this morning is - Pats fans. Wait, wait. Come back. Let me explain...

Not JUST Pats fans, but rather this Pats-Steelers fan bitterness that has developed over which team "cheated worse" in winning all their Super Bowls (their debate, not mine).

The classic example of this was over at PSAMP back in December. Tec and I went what seemed like 13 rounds with an anonymous Pats fan (because, you know, that's how they roll) over the whole Spygate thing. And aside from misinterpreting a rule and trying to pull a Jedi Mind Trick, the only other argument this brilliant mind could offer was...

"But, your self-righteous comments about drug use and how you would point this out regarding the Steelers are nonsense. The Pittsburgh Steelers are FAMOUS for having used steroids during their championship runs of the 1970's. Several Steelers have died prematurely because of that use. Even now, NFL steroid investigations focus on Doctors from the Pittsburgh area who were known to supply the Steelers in the past."
(see 3:27 PM comment)

Needless to say this one ended with this rational Pats fan accepting the superior arguments of us level-headed Steelers homers fans...

NOT! It ended with both Tec and I realizing there was nothing to fight. We were making well reasoned arguments relating to actual, currently relevant, facts. And this dude was just trying to keep the argument going, sans any real direction. So we resolved ourselves to the affirmation that Patriots fans are irrational, illogical and misguided souls. And we called it a day...

Given that exchange, I wasn't exactly surprised to see that at least one Pats fan had already cleverly related the recent Bradshaw bomb back to this Steelers-Pats conflict. Check out comment #3 over at Fanhouse's post on the subject...

"Bradshaw's comments are what all Stealers' fans who rip the Patriots should read. The 1970's Pittsburgh Stealers are known for being the first team to heavily use steroids. They won four Super Bowls during those years. Should they give them back or call them tainted, as some Stealers fans and NFL fans say the Patriots should do? No team is perfect, as these comments by Bradshaw 30 years after the fact testify to."

Stealers. How cute. I get it. Like the real team name, but spelled like the word meaning to take something unlawfully. Nice.

Anyways, I'm not really sure where I'm taking this post.

I actually see what they're saying - everyone's calling the Pats cheaters for supposedly videotaping all these opponents, but yet no one seems to care about the Steelers drug use in the 70s. But I also see that during the 70s, there was no rule against players using steroids. So technically the Steelers didn't "cheat," per se...

I guess what I'm really trying to say is - in both cases, what's done is done. Let's just all get over it and enjoy the impending football season. Besides, if Pats fans want to continue to be a bunch of d-bags - well, that's just like, their opinion, man.

Anyone have a perspective on the legendary Steelers dynasty doing steroids? Hard to believe? Easy to believe? Does this provide any context for what the Pats did? Is Tom Brady also on drugs?

PS - Lest ye think I'm ignoring the comments, I'm not. For some reason I'm having issues commenting on my own blog. Always the mark of a professionally run operation. Google - what a bunch of amateurs dude. I'll bet this type of thing would never happen at Deadspin.

REFERENCE MATERIAL:
Terry Bradshaw Says He Used Steroids [Fanhouse]
Whoa. Terry Bradshaw Used Steroids in the 70’s? [The Big Lead]
Terry Bradshaw Was All 'Roided Up [MJD]