Why we should allow performance enhancing drugs

[Occhidiangela]

Hi,
  Sportsmanship?  That was an endangered species when Vince Lombardi entered the scene, and he and his ilk killed it off forever.

--Pete
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I'd say you are being a bit hard on Lombardi, since he merely said in a series of pithy commentaries what a great many coaches and athletes had believed for some time. Why else would folks strive for the trophy, the Cup, the prize?

Depending on which sould byte of his one wants to quote, his general assertion is that man is at his best when he has dug deepest into himself in the arena of conflict and staggered off victorious.

He also believed that hard work and intelligent application of one's talent was the path to success, which puts him quite at odds with the general topic of this thread, which is "short cuts" to success that performance enhancing drugs promise. The Oympics and the East Germans are, as I recall, to blame for that rot, not Lombardi.

When I play in a competition, I play to win. When I play funsies, I play for fun.

In either case, winning is fun.

Occhi