Originally Posted by
Reid Rothchild
i was too harsh here.
The sports aren't bad. The perspective people put on them, who should know better, is what's bad.
They're just games and we've elevated these guys to icon status.
My point wasn't really about drugs. More about the apparent slacking popularity of a sport despite the recent worldwide popularity of an athlete (I still remember the Pele effect in grade school -- not that my classmates went on to become pros).