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Stunning news: Tony Mandarich admits steroid use

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Starman, Sep 30, 2008.

  1. KP

    KP Active Member

    Of all the dramatic things I've ever seen. [/waldman]
     
  2. RossLT

    RossLT Guest

    He's got surprising grace for a big man.
     
  3. dooley_womack1

    dooley_womack1 Well-Known Member

    Mandarich will next be plugging his book on the Mr. Obvious Show.
     
  4. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    Am I to understand he didn't just lift weights and eat a lot?
     
  5. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Yeah, if you swallowed the preposterous puff pieces/cover stories spun out by the Michigan State sports information department; there must have been a couple dozen of them during the fall of 1987, all following a nearly-identical template: "Tony Mandarich, the All-Natural Man," (Never Failed A Steroid Test ;) ), a listing of the incredible (in the literal sense) amount of food Mandarich was supposedly eating, dozens of eggs a day, pounds of steak, shopping carts full of food, hundreds of bucks a week, 30,000, 40,000 calories a day, pouring down gallons of triple-strength coffee, cartons of Jolt Cola, all to explain his massive weight gain and buzzing-at-the-eyeballs hair-trigger attititude and behavior; and recaps of his insane workout regimen, which featured pounding tons of iron virtualy every waking moment he wasn't eating or, presumably, taking dumps.

    That autumn, I remember talking to a doctor about the stories. "Jesus Christ," he said. "Why doesn't he just come out and say he's on roids? Being on roids is 10 times healthier than eating 50,000 calories a day and mainlining pure caffiene into your bloodstream."

    The stories generated a strong suspicion of "wethinks they doth protesteth too much." The stories also never mentioned, a) where Mandarich got the money to pay for these hundreds and hundreds of bucks worth of groceries every week, and b) one single word about ever attending classes.

    I think Telander wrote a version of this story for SI, I think it was the story in the "Incredible Bulk" issue. As I recall, Telander was so disgusted by the blatant propaganda and lying he asked to be switched off the college football beat.
     
  6. Hammer Pants

    Hammer Pants Active Member

    "Steroids, Alcohol, God (and Duh)," by Tony Mandarich.
     
  7. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    That would be the Ken Hoffman propaganda machine, right? Vista had left by then... I think
     
  8. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    AKA The Perles Public Relations Co.
     
  9. mustangj17

    mustangj17 Active Member

    A co-worker turned to me today with the same quote as your title as soon as he read the news.
     
  10. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member



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  11. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    Good old George... still burying his head in the sand after all these years....
     
  12. Rusty Shackleford

    Rusty Shackleford Active Member

    So you're saying if I do curls while sitting on the toilet, I can be bigger than Mandarich?
     
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