Thursday, August 16, 2007
"IF THE SAME RATIO OF NFL PLAYERS IN THE SAME TIME FRAME DIED BEFORE REACHING AGE 50, MORE THAN 430 CURRENT OR FORMER PLAYERS WOULD HAVE DIED PREMATURELY": So, yes, I'm a broken record on the topic, but the WaPo's Paul Farhi is as tired of seeing wrestlers die young as I am, and he details today the painkiller and steroid problems that the WWE has refused to control, and which have led to the deaths of ~60 current and former wrestlers under the age of 50 since 1997. As Glen "Disco Inferno" Gilberti notes in the lengthy piece, letting Vince McMahon run his company's drug testing -- given the economic incentive to keep his stars wrestling -- is like "putting Keith Richards in charge of doing drug tests for rock stars."
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