Comments on: Cushing's tumor excuse gets exposed

By: cgc1969

cgc1969 — Sun, 16 May 2010 00:16:00 +0000

screw the texans, cushing a big cheater scumbag the texans are best a mediocre franchise, they will be a .500 record or 1 game above .500 record team never will have a real winning record. it was better when there was the houston oilers.

By: Dorothy R.

Dorothy R. — Fri, 14 May 2010 12:30:14 +0000

Oh, but Cushing is from USC and we all know their players would *never* do anything deserving of any kind of investigation ! [cough cough]

By: jimicos

jimicos — Fri, 14 May 2010 11:05:42 +0000

ethan robert says:
May 14, 2010 12:02 AM
The other alternative is that he was innocent, in which case an extreme injustice has been done. I can’t see any point in piling on. On the street he wouldn’t even be guilty of a misdemeanor. It’s a less serious infraction than failing to signal when you turn on your bicycle.
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It’s not piling on to call a liar a liar. The guy perpetuated the story by lying (poorly, I might add) about it.

By: ZombieRevolution

ZombieRevolution — Fri, 14 May 2010 10:48:12 +0000

“We’re told that other friends of Cushing’s knew nothing about a tumor.”
Of course can you back that statement up- yea, just like you did the Steve Smith statement. PFT- the journalistic verison of the NFL kicker.

By: SportsDevil

SportsDevil — Fri, 14 May 2010 10:43:46 +0000

Doesn’t he know he’s just making this whole thing worse by talking? People stopped talking about Merriman and Peppers because they knew how to take the suspension and keep their mouths shut.
Are we really that smart or is he really that stupid? We live in a world full of idiots.

By: Bens Bodyguard

Bens Bodyguard — Fri, 14 May 2010 10:43:33 +0000

Maybe you wouldn’t have a tuma if you didn’t take roids as that’s a bad side affect you can get with many of them. He’s like a guy who is gonna use the economy as a excuse for stealing and mugging even though he has a long rap sheet for doing it even before the economy sucked

By: Jungle Juice

Jungle Juice — Fri, 14 May 2010 10:23:17 +0000

I never will understand why people will continue to deny when they have been caught red-handed. Years from now, when he is out of football and all messed up from roids I’m sure he will come clean and sell a book or something.

By: simple_simon1

simple_simon1 — Fri, 14 May 2010 10:18:34 +0000

I can tell you right now. I wouldn’t be condoning the BS if Calvin Johnson from my team got caught cheating. I’d be saying, sit down, shut up and take your suspension. Just because a person likes the Houston Texans or Cushing doesn’t change what has really happened here. Cushing was cheating. Cushing got caught. Cushing is now in top notch damage control to attempt to win public sympathy and, thus, the PR battle.
Here’s the deal. If a person gets caught drinking and driving, we get to hear his intoxication level, his actions, his statements, where he was, what he did, and any accompanying pictures. And alcohol is legal. But if somebody takes steroids or some other banned substance, we’re not even allowed to find out how much was in his system, even if what was tested positive for is leaked.
I find it funny that originally Cushing said he took something but thought he’d win the appeal because he didn’t know it was a banned substance. This was before the public knew what he tested positive for. Then, like magic, when we do find out what he tested positive for, he changes his tune completely and says, not only did he not take anything, but he feared for his….choke….. life….. Give me a break
What a lying, cheating dirtbag

By: danners123

danners123 — Fri, 14 May 2010 10:08:40 +0000

man boobs and tiny balls.
He did roids.
No, the league should not “allow” roid use. That would be the end of the NFL and any other sporting league so SHUT UP on that point already.
We don’t need pharmaceutical co’s being the 12th man on the field. So shut up.

By: StevieMo

StevieMo — Fri, 14 May 2010 10:06:47 +0000

Once a steroid user, always a liar. Just plain, simple fact.

By: Rasta

Rasta — Fri, 14 May 2010 10:01:54 +0000

egypt123
But Florio makes a living doing this, what’s your problem.
Live Slo man!!!

By: MarinoRules

MarinoRules — Fri, 14 May 2010 09:59:38 +0000

Great post Florio…keep up the good work

By: simple_simon1

simple_simon1 — Fri, 14 May 2010 09:59:15 +0000

Well, in the end the NFL should thank Cushing. This isn’t going away anytime soon. Because he was caught (and yes Cushing apologetics, he was definitively caught…. If you don’t understand how impossible it is to test positive for this, to the levels that would give a positive, then don’t make comments about how it could happen naturally, because it simply cannot) and now continues to lie about it, the NFL and NFLPA are going to have no choice but to avoid this in the future. That means, after this, the NFL is going to have to come clean about what a player tests positive for and how much. Otherwise, players can simply say things like “it was in a drink I had” or “it’s from natural causes” without having to worry about public scrutiny.
I think it’s pathetic. This test actually shows that, at least last offseason, Cushing had to be taking large amounts of steroids. Only reason to use hCG is to recover from extensive steroid use. Also, for people saying that a lot of players cheat by using HGH, etc, I say 2 things. First, at least they’re smart enough to take something that the NFL doesn’t test for. Second, the reason steroids is much worse, and why it is definitively banned in all sports, is because we actually know it has extensive enhancing qualities and terrible eventual side effects.
Cushing: You were using. Everybody without their Cushing blinders on knows it. You know it. Suck it up and take your medicine. You may have just changed a lot of the drug policy for the NFL, so thank you. In a very short period of time I’m sure the NFL will begin drug testing in offseasons. I guarantee that’s where you start catching many more of them.

By: egypt123

egypt123 — Fri, 14 May 2010 09:29:35 +0000

Oh the humanity!! What travesty and total disrespect to all those people how ever had cancer or a tumor!!! What will the lazy parents do now that the AP and NFL has confirms to all the children that “It’s OK to cheat”. Now our kids will become roided monsters – all due to BRIAN CUSHING!!! Why oh why has Cushing disgraced my team, my high school, my city, my state, my country, my world! In our best Nancy Kerrigan voice, let’s scream from the mountain tops, “Whhhhyyy… Whhhhyyy…”!!!
Give me a break! This is a dumb jock (along with numerous others out there) playing a game who did something stupid and is now backtracking on it. Shocking!!! But he did it all to humilate you and to make your life more difficult? Yawn… Get a life, losers (Florio included)!

By: FinFanRod

FinFanRod — Fri, 14 May 2010 09:22:54 +0000

I didn’t pay too much attention to this until he spoke. I don’t condone cheating and think anyone caught should be punished/fined/suspended and have all awards rescinded as well. I first started paying attention when the idiots in the AP gave him back the award.
Now I have to say I’m hooked! This is ridiculous. The excuses and the lying are horrible. His agent should fire himself. With that little press conference he just ended his own career. How can he say he spent an entire season in fear for his life? Some of you asked for proof he didn’t get tested for tumors? Well THERE IT IS!!!!! If he was tested for tumors and it was negative then he knew and didn’t spend the season in fear. If he wasn’t tested then he’s even stupider than he looks and shouldn’t be allowed to walk and chew gum at the same time let alone drive a car or live on his own.
A DR for the anti-doping agency already stated that if he had a tumor that released HCG then is would be fatal. He wouldn’t have been playing football! I don’t like lies and I don’t like cheats.
I’m a huge Miami Dolphins fan and personally I hope they get rid of Jason Ferguson as well. If he’s cheating to stay in the game at 35, it’s time to go. I know they’re a better team with him on the field but if he cheats he shouldn’t be playing. OK sorry, that was my rant.

By: Rasta

Rasta — Fri, 14 May 2010 09:13:15 +0000

I’ve been out of touch as usual. Did someone say Cushing got a hernia trying to rape a drunk underage pit bull in a small restroom.

By: CLosISgood

CLosISgood — Fri, 14 May 2010 09:04:09 +0000

Cheaters never wii….wait?
Oh, yes. They do.

By: Big Tex

Big Tex — Fri, 14 May 2010 08:57:28 +0000

Note to Mr Cushing: Quite possibly the lamest (and least believable) excuse I’ve heard in a very long time. In other words,”Don’t pee down my back and then swear to God that it’s raining!”
To those who might pass Cushing’s actions off as “no big deal” or “doing what needs to be done to succeed in the NFL”, do yourselves a favor and research the Taylor Hooton Foundation or better yet, go listen to Don Hooton speak sometime. The damage that one successful cheater can do as far as influencing the impressionable and uneducated is not insignificant.

By: kelevra

kelevra — Fri, 14 May 2010 08:51:16 +0000

Having read this article, and responses to this article, I have been enlightened.
Is Florio kinda a d-bag? Eh, yeah. But he’s an equal opportunist d-bag.
Every one of us on this web page take it WAY to personally when he slams our team.
I’m a Browns fan, as a Browns fan reading this article, I can tell you Texans fans, there is absolutely nothing wrong with what Florio wrote.
Cushing cheated, then CLEARLY lied to try and cover it up. It makes your player look like a degenerate. No amount of loyalty can or should cover this reality up.
Don’t shoot the messenger

By: GirthyOne

GirthyOne — Fri, 14 May 2010 07:51:09 +0000

I am a little surprised at those folks who post that taking PEDs isn’t a big deal. It doesn’t bother them.
Then there are the morons who don’t read properly and bash Florio. For those of you in that category, go to a reading support group or something. You sound like an ignorant morons.
For every successful user of PEDs that gets to play the national football league and make the $, there is a guy who was ousted. Most likely, that guy didn’t take the PEDs. If some of you can’t see the travesty in that, then there is no hope for you.
Some idiot actually said Viagra is a PED. Ummm…yes but you go ahead and think it’s the same kind of thing.
Me personally, I want to see guys who are natural competing and doing things that normal guys aren’t capable of doing. If their fake, it takes away something for me. I am in support of blood tests like the Olympics.
I am always amazed that when a guy tests positive for PEDs or drugs, that the authorities aren’t called in.

By: CJ SPILLER

CJ SPILLER — Fri, 14 May 2010 07:45:06 +0000

Hey, so he got suspended for the 1st four games of the season……..at least during that time he can breast feed!!!

By: Florio-is-a-tool

Florio-is-a-tool — Fri, 14 May 2010 07:24:47 +0000

Just watched his press conference and one thing is clear – as a human being Cushing thinks he’s fooling people with his excuses but he doesn’t get it that he’s not. He’s a loser as a human.
He got to the show taking the juice and now he’s a target he won’t be able to get away with it and his weight will go down and he’ll be a step slower and he’ll be out of the league in three years. There’s a reason quite a few teams needing an OLB passed on him – he was going to get caught because he doesn’t realize his intelligence is below average.
What an idiot and using the “cancer” excuse is the capstone.

By: eaglealan64

eaglealan64 — Fri, 14 May 2010 03:47:58 +0000

So when does he get a further suspension under the NFL’s Personal Conduct Policy for this nonsense?

By: wxwax

wxwax — Fri, 14 May 2010 03:37:01 +0000

The Cushing outrage continues!
Will the republic stand?
I’m guessing this is the first person to lie about steroid use whom Florio’s encountered.
For the rest of us, who actually read the sports pages for something other than football, there’s nothing new about Cushing’s lying. Seen it all before in cycling, track and field, baseball… you name it.
All the Florio anger and all the Florio columns aren’t going to make even a teensy weensy dent in the willingness of athletes to use PEDs to achieve and sustain a career. Especially in a brutal sport like football.

By: BigUnit

BigUnit — Fri, 14 May 2010 02:59:26 +0000

stripping him of Rookie of Year title and compensation would send appropriate message to rest of NFL. Every award candidate should be tested before and after an award is made. Shame on NFL for condoning the behavior…wonder how many concussions are related to roid usage? These guys are killing themselves and fans love the big blows but the shortsighted NFLPA does nothing to protect players from themselves. How sad the Commissioner takes no stand.

By: jorourke05

jorourke05 — Fri, 14 May 2010 02:49:53 +0000

florio, get off cushings di** so what he tested positive for a banned substance. no one cares about your 13year old or why you have a personal vendetta against cushing. get off his nuts you bum

By: PackAttackBackMan

PackAttackBackMan — Fri, 14 May 2010 01:17:51 +0000

What an ass……. I didn’t give two shits about the steriod use…. but common, will this douche bag say anything to save his image???
Saying you have a “tumor” is low………
God Bless You Mr. Cushing…God Bless….

By: notoriouswarsaw

notoriouswarsaw — Fri, 14 May 2010 01:02:20 +0000

The guys a joke and a disgrace not only to my county but to my former high school division

By: bigdickwalker

bigdickwalker — Fri, 14 May 2010 00:52:29 +0000

can’t wait to hear what you texan fans will be saying in a year or two this douche… prolly the same thing bolt fans are saying bout their own cheater… haha

By: Slow Joe

Slow Joe — Fri, 14 May 2010 00:36:04 +0000

Hey, Florio has a right to be pissed off. When he thought Cushing had cancer, he bought him a membership to the Hair Team for Men.