Brian Urlacher Is A Tough Guy
Added on Jan 24, 2012 by Jack Thurman in
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During the 1970′s, the NFL was a league that ran on drugs. Players not only doped themselves up with painkillers on a regular basis but hit the field of play in a bloodthirty haze caused by ‘greenies’ and other amphetamines. Most teams had an unofficial ‘team pharmacist’ and there are reports of locker rooms around the league in which players ingested handfuls of pills at halftime dispensed out of a large garbage can.
Times have changed and in these politically correct days it creates a minor controversy when a player even admits that he’s played in an NFL game with the aid of painkillers. The latest to come forward is Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher. Every knew that Urlacher was a tough guy but the pantie waists and politically correct are scolding him for being a tough guy who wants to earn his paycheck on the field of play and not on the trainers’ table.
Urlacher talked about playing with the benefit of Toradol, an anti-inflamatory/painkiller. Judging from the media reaction you would have thought he’d admitted to dressing as Queen Elizabeth in his free time:
“It’s normal. You drop your pants, you get the alcohol, they give you a shot, put the Band-Aid on and you go out and play.”
Urlacher explained to the limp wristed masses that he is a NFL football player and doesn’t live by society’s rules:
“First of all, we love football. We want to be on the field as much as we can be. If we can be out there, it may be stupid, it may be dumb, call me dumb and stupid then, because I want to be on the football field.”
He’d even lie to the nature of his injury lest he incur the wrath of the ‘nurses’ that now run the league:
“If I have a concussion these days, I’m going to say something happened to my toe or knee just to get my bearings for a few plays. I’m not going to sit in there and say I got a concussion. (Then) I can’t go in there the rest of the game.”
It’s a sad state of affairs that Urlacher is being castigated for what was once mandatory in the National Football League: being a man.
