Strictly Opinion Pt.2

It seems like to many people are being suspended and suffering worse exclusion from the NFL for lesser crimes than others, most specifically Josh Gordon being suspended for a entire season for the possession of marijuana, yet some players are injecting PED to give themselves and illegal playing ground. To me it seems like we got something twisted here. People are beating their wives and children and suffering half a season suspension (if the commissioner doesn't like you). There are way worse things that we should be cracking down on rather than some players smoking marijuana. Don't get me wrong, professional athletes should be caught and charged for possession if they have any kind of drugs, however punishment should be much more diversified.

Obviously no drugs have any place within professional sports, except for either prescription medication and medicinal marijuana. (generally professional athletes tend to not need either until after retirement) A large portion of media coverage in sports has undergone taking up the issues of PED's, most prevalently brought up by the Denver Broncos receiver Wes Welker. Funny enough, Welker suffered a minimal suspension and has been back since week 5. Steroids people, STEROIDS. This man has literally attempted to aid himself by giving an unfair body function advantage. Is 4 games really enough for people who are trying to ruin the game through PEDs? Is the pimple covered back and shrunken family jewels enough punishment? why are we suspending marijuana users for full seasons, and people who are chemically enhancing their own bodies for a quarter of the season.

There's been countless arguments about PED's and other drugs within sports, and evidently enough PED's have indelibly become part of sporting. Most definitely it is not a better sub-sector of sports, and I believe that competition is being ruined by chemical vs. natural advantage. Steroids have seem to become most prevalent within the MLB and the NFL.  But this article isn't focused upon steroids and other performance enhancing drugs, but the punishments laid upon athletes, and the questionable suspension times or fines within each crime.

Surely enough Professional Sports is an extremely large part of society in terms of entertainment and such, and I'm not going to say its the responsibility of professional athletes to set an example for the young athletes that look up to them. However it should be common sense and maybe a little honorable if you strive to provide a fine example of athletic talent and knowledgeable decision making skills. It's more than obvious that were never going to flush PED's and drugs out of professional sports, is just not possible, so why not be smart about it in terms of the athletes, why take the risk when you're already making unbelievably stupid amounts of moola, and you're looked up to by a range of young kids and oddly enough a small sum of middle age men who are still living out their high school football dreams. I'm not going to stray from the topic anymore and finish it off. The ultimate point is that we need to better recognize the severity of different types of drugs, and deliver smarter punishment and suspension times as well as fines to those who deserve it, and freedom to those who do not.