Why No One Cares About Terry Bradshaw's Admission of Steroid Use

As informative as www.profootballtalk.com can be at times, there are instances where it's creator and editor-in-chief Mike Florio gets on a high horse he simply cannot come down from.

Case in point: Terry Bradshaw's admission that he used steroids when he played.

Florio writes: "Third (okay, we’ve got three things to say), it’s amazing to us how quickly the media has accepted Bradshaw’s self-serving “clarification” and moved on. Yeah, he’s a Hall of Famer and, by all appearances, a great guy. But so what? Do only assholes use steroids? If the media has any interest in developing a better understanding of precisely how prevalent the use of these compounds was in years before they were banned and/or illegal, admissions from key players of that era can’t be pooh-poohed when the player in question tries to talk his way out of the poo-poo into which he inadvertently buried his foot."

There could be several reasons why the MSM has accepted Bradshaw's explanation and haven't shared Florio's shock and disbelief:

1. Maybe they think Terry Bradshaw is dead.

2. Maybe Bradshaw's "self-serving clarification" is also an accurate clarification. Steroids were approved by the FDA and available via a doctor's prescription.

3. Bradshaw has been retired for 25 years and his admitted steroid use took place nearly 30 years ago when steroids were neither against NFL rules or were against United States law.

Since the 70s, much has been made known about the dangers of steroid use, including some pretty detailed stories about just how prevalant steroid use was in the NFL during that decade. That information has been used, by both the NFL and the NFLPA, to ban anabolic steroids and establish strict testing programs to detect it's use and punish the offenders.

4. We already know, thanks to former Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker and current St. Louis Rams defensive coordinator Jim Haslett, that the Steelers of the 1970s pioneered steroid use in the NFL. Bradshaw was with the Steelers from 1970-1983, so you do the math.

Look, if Bradshaw admitted that he did rails off Loni Anderson's ass while on the set of Cannonball Run, that'd be newsworthy. A Hall of Fame quarterback, who openly jokes about his own dumbness, admitting that he used doctor-prescribed steroids before they were against league rules or the law?

Yawn.