Yet another 1980s-era NFLer dead: Andra Franklin RIP

[Columbo]

It has to be at least two dozen guys who played in that decade who are dead.

http://www.dailybusinessreview.com/news.html?news_id=41218

 

[Gutter]

Wrong link.

 

[poindexter]

Dahmer killed Andra Franklin?

This is getting creepy.

 

[FishHack76]

Chucky Mullins

 

[Claws for Concern]

NFL players from the 80s dying? I wonder if it'll get more press than pro wrestlers dying before the age of 40 ... steroids, drug usage, addicted to fame and fortune and not knowing how to live properly once the spotlight burns out.

 

[Oz]

Dahmer killed Andra Franklin?

This is getting creepy.

Not exactly what I expected to see, either, when I clicked on it.

 

[Del_B_Vista]

Chucky Mullins

Wha?

 

[patchs]

Add Franklin to David Woodley, Reggie Roby and Davis Overstreet as members of the RIP Dolphins alumni chapter.

 

[Columbo]

Pathetic.

What I meant....

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/sports/16192124.htm

 

[BYH]

No steroids in the NFL. Nothing to see here. Men die all the time of natural causes at age 47. Move along.

 

[Columbo]

No steroids in the NFL. Nothing to see here. Men die all the time of natural causes at age 47. Move along.

People don't care if players are taking steroids across the board, as they obviously do in the NFL.

They do care if time-honored individual records are being slayed because of it.

I would guess, though, that hydrocortisone and other such injected pain medication is more culpable for these deaths than the anabolic steroids.

But, that's just a guess.

Your Lilliputian attempts to slay the NFL is quite comic, though.

 

[BYH]

Not trying to slay the NFL, Columbo. Just amused at how the league gets a free pass from an easily duped public.

 

[Columbo]

Not trying to slay the NFL, Columbo. Just amused at how the league gets a free pass from an easily duped public.

No one is duped.

The NFL usually loses big to baseball in one single aspect... history and statistics, and the public's attachment to it.

Now the NFL benefits, because a) no one cares about the greatest statistical achievers in the sport and b) there has been no obviously juiced QB breaking Marino's marks.... or Jerry Rice's.

 

[Editude]

NFL suspends the Chargers' Shawne Merriman for four games, which is like a 40-game baseball suspension. The outcry if an equivalent second-year star (say, Ryan Howard) were to miss that many games would be much greater than that for Merriman.

 

[Columbo]

NFL suspends the Chargers' Shawne Merriman for four games, which is like a 40-game baseball suspension. The outcry if an equivalent second-year star (say, Ryan Howard) were to miss that many games would be much greater than that for Merriman.

Excellent point that I didn't hit MLB management boy with.

 

[Twoback]

You gentlemen should check the death rates for NFL players who competed long before steroids were an issue.
Not many guys die of natural causes at 47.
Quite a few NFL players do.
Steve Hubbard broke ground on this subject in the early 90s at the Pittsburgh Press, when many players from the 50s, 60s and 70s were passing ahead of schedule.

 

[Columbo]

You gentlemen should check the death rates for NFL players who competed long before steroids were an issue.
Not many guys die of natural causes at 47.
Quite a few NFL players do.
Steve Hubbard broke ground on this subject in the early 90s at the Pittsburgh Press, when many players from the 50s, 60s and 70s were passing ahead of schedule.

I don't think it has much to do with steroids... as my post stated.

 

[BYH]

NFL suspends the Chargers' Shawne Merriman for four games, which is like a 40-game baseball suspension. The outcry if an equivalent second-year star (say, Ryan Howard) were to miss that many games would be much greater than that for Merriman.

Excellent point that I didn't hit MLB management boy with.

Apples and oranges. Ryan Howard wouldn't get hit for 25 games. He'd get hit for 50 games...just under one-third of the season. So even the MLB punishment is better than the NFL punishment.

 

[BYH]

You gentlemen should check the death rates for NFL players who competed long before steroids were an issue.
Not many guys die of natural causes at 47.
Quite a few NFL players do.
Steve Hubbard broke ground on this subject in the early 90s at the Pittsburgh Press, when many players from the 50s, 60s and 70s were passing ahead of schedule.

I don't think it has much to do with steroids... as my post stated.

Of course you don't. Rah rah football!

 

[Columbo]

You gentlemen should check the death rates for NFL players who competed long before steroids were an issue.
Not many guys die of natural causes at 47.
Quite a few NFL players do.
Steve Hubbard broke ground on this subject in the early 90s at the Pittsburgh Press, when many players from the 50s, 60s and 70s were passing ahead of schedule.

I don't think it has much to do with steroids... as my post stated.

Of course you don't. Rah rah football!

Has to do with pain medication, you dumb rube.