RIP - Dwight White

The O-line on juice? That I beleive.

The D-line? What member of the defense had muscles growing on his earlobes? Ham? Lambert? L.C.? Mel? Wagner? Shell? Fats Holmes? Dwight? Mean Joe)

So Swann was on the juice? Stallworth? Rocky? Franco? Bradshaw?

Fucking Grossman?

Was Webster, Brown and some of the other offensive lineman? Yeah. I'm not going to say that they were not.

But those are not the guys in Canton.

 

RIP Dwight

 

I'm not like that. My dad's not like that. My family's not like that. To paint all Steelers fans the same is quite stupid to do.

 

It apparently only affected White to the degree that he had back problems that required surgery, and he wound up with a blood clot as a result of the surgery. Not really a direct connection.

Ernie Holmes died in a car wreck, Joe Gilliam had longstanding issues with drug abuse, Terry Long committed suicide, Justin Strzelczyk died in a car crash, Steve Courson was killed by a falling tree, Theo Bell had kidney disease, James Parrish had cancer, David Woodley had alcohol abuse problems that led to kidney failure, David Little was suffocated by a barbell that fell on his neck.

 

If I'm not wrong Strelczyk had some severe issues with depression.

Courson had some bigtime heart problems until his freakish death. Which the usual suspects here joked about.

 

Maybe this helps:

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/search/s_462321.html

 

Good story.

I would question Stallworth's incredulity, re.: Pittsburgh's non-status, in his mind, as a drug "epicenter."

I guess the 1980s Pirates were on Flintstones Chewables.

 

You brought up a couple of good points. I would caution though to compare the steroids of today with what was being used in the 1970s. Steroids are a medical product that is constantly being changed and improved upon by doctors, cheats and crooks. What was being used back then might compare with the computer of 1970 and what I am typing on today.

One thing that would make me question that steroids were making Swann jump higher, Bradshaw throw longer and Harris run faster is that if all this was true in the 1970s, why did it take over a decade for these wonder drugs to make it into baseball?

 

Might want to check your HOF roster for Webster.

 

Steroids is what I was focusing.

The reds and the greens were all over the place in baseball and other sports. For how long? 40 years? But I do not think steroids became a major factor in baseball until about 1987 give or take a year or two.

I'm talking about steroids which is what some were saying was the difference between the 1970 Steelers and the rest of the league.

 

I noticed that when I typed it, but can you name one other Steeler lineman from the 1970s? If you can, the HOF sure as shit cannot.