OMGSports!

Saints' defensive tackle Hollis Thomas - featured above searching the horizon for steak sandwiches and ice cream - has been suspended by the NFL for four games for violating the steroid abuse policy. But wait, it's not that simple:

"During his appeal, John Amoss, who is the Saints' team doctor and an assistant professor at the LSU Health Science Center, sent a letter to the league in support of Thomas. Amoss said Thomas has severe asthma problems and requires a high dose of inhaled steroids to breathe. According to the doctor, Thomas needs a long acting beta agonist and a short acting beta agonist to control his asthma.

During his August drug test, the defensive tackle was taking an asthma product called Advair twice a day while also using an inhaler four times a day."

Turns out that Big Hollis needs asthma medication, you know, TO FUCKING LIVE. Let's go ahead and give the NFL a big round of applause for punishing a man for gaining an unfair competitive advantage through the use of steroids; that is, a 355-pound defensive tackle who will die instantly if he doesn't take his medication. You're telling me that this guy, who has struggled with remaining at his playing weight for his entire career, is secretly cheating through the use of Advair?!? IT'S A MOTHERFUCKING INHALER, FOR CHRIST'S SAKE!

Tell me this doesn't have something to do with the complaints that the NFL doesn't do enough about steroid enforcement. I dare you. Tell me Shawne Merriman has nothing to do with this. Tell me that you still think that the Saints' luck is finally looking up. Tell me you don't get pissed off when you imagine Hollis Thomas, sobbing into a motherfucking sack of cheese fries because his season has been ended in the middle of a playoff race because he was born with fucking asthma.

I hate sports.

Labels: NFL, Steroids