The four-time Super Bowl winner had a magnificent career, and his accomplishments should not be diminished because he took medications that team doctors prescribed to him.In the time that Bradshaw played, doctors would do anything to keep their players on the field There was no such thing as a concussion. If a guy came off the field and didn’t know where he was, he “got his bell rung.” He would walk over to the water cooler, grab something to drink, and get back into the huddle.Likewise, if a player injured himself, he was not coddled by doctors. He was rushed back to the playing field with shots and medications.When Bradshaw injured his elbow, doctors wanted to get him back onto the field. And in an effort to do so, he was given steroids by team doctors. The extent of his steroid use was to recover from an injury.In 2008, steroids and HGH have turned professional sports into a witch-hunt, in which no athlete is safe.Anytime Alex Rodriguez sends a ball into the upper-deck, eyebrows are raised. Anytime a wide receiver comes back from the offseason with ten more pounds of muscle, people begin to whisper.Steroids have done horrible things to sports.
They have hurt athletes, ruined reputations, destroyed role models, and shattered hallowed records But worst of all, they have caused fans to become skeptics They have turned accusations into condemnations. And they have given innocent men like Terry Bradshaw a bad name.. It seems every week there’s a new article. College Football needs a playoff! Every fan has his own brilliant idea. We hear that it’s the only fair way and it’s the ultimate national championship, but before we nix the BCS, let’s try to fix it.The problem with the BCS is its inability to create good match-ups. Ohio State blowouts by Florida in 2006 and LSU in 2007, along with the horrendous Miami-Nebraska game of 2001 or the USC-Oklahoma game in 2003, are perfect examples.The BCS has also failed to provide consistent kick with the other bowls too.
Georgia beats Hawaii 41-10 in one of the most embarrassing performances in a bowl game in the modern era The USC vs. Illinois game was a horrible Rose Bowl match-up.But the answer is not to start from scratch with a whole new system. In a playoff, there would be many more mundane match-ups than we sit through today. The reason that the lower bowl match-ups are often poor games is the conference tie-in policy.The Sugar Bowl is reserved for the SEC Champion and a BCS-eligible at-large team.
This has consistently provided bad games because of the SEC’s superiority and the fact that they never have to play a conference champion (see LSU over Notre Dame, 2006).The BCS should have conference tie-ins to the BCS, but not to individual games. The committee should sort out the teams in the BCS pool for the best match-ups. This past year, for instance, Hawaii and Illinois, being the two weakest teams, would have faced each other and so on.. I’m sure there have been many articles written over the years about the best baseball achievements and what can or can’t be broken. But as I sit here, looking at my autographed picture of Pete Rose, I’m reminded at just how great he was.So how do you measure what constitutes the best records of all time?The obvious choice would be that a career statistic is more impressive than a single-season one, and that some sports are regarded as more superior than others.So without further adieu, here’s my list of top sports records broken down by career and season. 1. Cal Ripken’s streak of 2,632 straight games playedFor anyone to actually challenge this record, they would have to play every game for nearly 17 seasons to break it.
