Sorry about the Blue Hens.

Many of my friends went to Delaware and I was really hoping they would pull it off.

It think it was the similarity of their helmets to Michigan’s that gave App the edge.

(toldja having a Staff Physician would pay off.)

Everytime I encounter this sentiment I think of Gayle Sayers.

Not because I knew him, or because my Pop Warner career mirrored his accomplishments, but because … “we will never know just how many yards the most beautiful athlete (running style) to play the game would have had if he hadn’t gone down with a devastating knee injury two-thirds into the 1968 season.”

And why not? Because the knee injury he suffered while Tom Brokaw and the DFH friends of the Boggs were humping like rabbits and flippin’ the bird to the man — was a career-ender.

Nowadays, athletes suffer anterior cruciate ligament tears, posterior ligament ‘damage’ and other assorted injuries that would keep most of us pussies moaning like a woman sentenced to sex with Conferderate Yankee … and then four weeks later, BAM! Jimmy Jam Jones is back on the turf beating the Horned Frogs in the annual big game.

My long-winded point is — Science has given us wonderful tools.

The idea that chemical compounds, because they are just that — chemical — are in some way more vile or unworthy of our respect like say, weightlifting, because they aren’t “natural” becomes silliness when I watch Donovan McNabb, for three consecutive years, recover and rebound from, injuries that in 1965, or 1975, would have been career-enders.

Ironically, the best sports parents we ever played with were the ones on her Freshman Football team. Really supportive, loved her ponytail hanging out of the bottom of the helmet and sent up a huge cheer every time she went out to kick a PAT. And I thought that was going to be a nightmare.

I should have been more specific as to what I felt she was blind to. It would have been the literal transformation in his size and strength in a very short period of time. And knowing that he was told specifically to “get bigger”, she had to be a complete ignoramus to dismiss the idea that he could have taken the chemical route. And it’s even worse if she had any doubts and did nothing about it. I do agree however, that the “death of the dream” was probably just as devastating to his head as the chemicals were to his body.

Credit goes to Righteous Bubba of the S,N! commentariat.