"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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