Balls, Blows and NFL Eunuchs

By Terry J. Allen

America's football players and boxers--the embodiments of aggressively virile masculinity--are the eunuchs of our time. Before you go all testosterone on me, travel back to pre-revolutionary China. There, one quick, cruel cut gave the sons of impoverished villagers a chance to advance their own and [RETURN TO ARTICLE]

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    As usual, Ms. Allen writes a very insightful and provocative column, combining sociology with basic science.
      To amplify the situation, I would argue that steroids are “de rigeur,” much more than jsut “common” in the NFL. At that elite multi billion dollar level, the athletes have every logical imperative to use the medical/chemical means they must take to compete, win, and stay on the field. The result is a corporate criminal conspiracy that involves all the billionaires, the doctors, the trainers, the agents, and the players. Testing is generally fiction, but it can be tweaked at various times to catch a few of the universal horde. Because of the nature of this conspiracy and the need for criminal secrecy, we as “fans” can only guess that this is true, but the logic is inescapable.
      Secondly, the vast majority of the NFL and the NBA, for that matter, are poor inner-city African-Americans. They no more have a “choice” to become the gladiators and eunuchs that Ms. Allen rightly shows then they had a “choice” of where to be born. “Choice” is a fine term to use when you are rich and white, like Kid Rock, but a poor term when society has left so little other avenues for young men in our communities. 
      This criminal conspiracy is not just in the NFL, but permeates all our elite sports, a situation of rampant dishonesty that filters down through all the feeder levels of sport, to where the most important person in the outcome of a game is not on the field, but ready to take the insurance money in the doctor’s office.
    Still, we will watch, and there really is nothing that will reform this.

    United States Posted by notabilia on Feb 28, 2010 at 3:23 PM

    Since the NFL is in recruiting mode right now, people get more and more curious about a component of recruiting NFL players

    Philippines Posted by JavieR on Mar 18, 2010 at 1:58 AM

    I was taunted after reading that he was last year born in England.And just having your Wonderlic many sample test score doesn’t feel like genital herpes in women

    Republic of Serbia Posted by Mike C Brid on Apr 17, 2010 at 6:20 AM

    Well, I can’t do anything about their opinion but maybe it is because each one of them about hiv symptoms in Men

    Republic of Serbia Posted by Mike C Brid on Apr 18, 2010 at 7:52 AM

    I can confirm that use of steroids has become normalised in the NFL. At that level participants feel that they need to use anything that may give them a slight edge. bathroom suites

    United Kingdom Posted by Jeff Lepperd on May 8, 2010 at 7:11 AM

    Some nice points you have made in this article. However I wouldn’t call them eunuchs,although according to the behavior of some of them they are capable of breastfeeding

    Republic of Serbia Posted by Herb on Jun 26, 2010 at 8:09 AM
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