New Patriot's punter Todd Sauerbrun whines incessantly doesn't get why the NFL is picking on him. Story here in the Boston Globe.
Sauerbrun was picked up by the New England Patriots last week, and will likely be punting in the playoffs. Although he won't admit it, he was given a prescription for steroids from Dr. James Shortt (60 Minutes story here), when Sauerbrun was a member of the Superbowl Carolina Panthers. Sauerbrun soft-sells his problems by saying it was only Ephedra, forgetting his steroid involvement, forgetting ephedra is also banned by the NFL, forgetting that Kory Stringer died with ephedra in his blood.
"What bothers me the most is that all the stuff around the league that's gone [on] with players, it's almost like they wash their hands [of] it. There's no penalties," he said. "Even if they do get suspended, they're back and everything is all fine. Something like this, for ephedra nonetheless. I could understand if I was testing positive for cocaine, heroin. It was a diet pill. It wasn't even steroids.
"That's what upsets me, and I get punished beyond belief on this. And you see all this stuff happen to other people and nothing happens to them. Their team welcomes them back with open arms. I get punished way beyond what it should be.
Someone explain to Sauerbrun why he should stop his whining protests. He should be given a ban longer probation for repeatedly violating the NFL's substance abuse/steroid policy. This is a good example of some of the crap in professional sports. Under WADA rules Justin Gatlin receives an 8 year suspension for violation policy twice. Meanwhile Sauerbrun bitches complains about how unfair the world treats him.
If the NFL wants to be serious about it's steroid policy it needs to step up and punt repeat offenders like Sauerbrun.
get over it.and start to be a good kicker.we need a good kicker in the playoffs
Posted by: | 01/01/2007 at 16:57
For those of you who don't know Mr. FakePunts: www.fakepunts.com
As I told the editor from Winnipeg; Although I punted a 5.63 second hang time punt at the Stampeders 2009 tryout and a 5.9 sec. 52 yarder, wind aided, timed by two witnesses two days prior (hang times only produced by a small number of current NFL punters such as Shane Lechler, Andy Lee, Mike Scifres, Matt Turk ... and yet its likely none of them have hit a 6.0 this year, ... with passing skills that are still above and beyond all other punters), I'm getting attention, but not the serious attention I'm looking for... Since the Blue Bombers refused to allow me to tryout in Deland this year...It looks like I'll have to come back next year for both the NFL and CFL open camps, with a record breaking, mind blowing, semi-consistent 6.0-6.2 sec. hang time punts and we'll see what happens...
4/6/09 WFTV Channel 9 Orlando - Sports at 9 - Chris Edwards: "Working On A Dream -38-year-old punter/quarterback looks for his place in pro football."
http://www.wftv.com/video/19102290/index.html
Although Sports Anchor Joe Kepner only filmed 2 punts on camera, where he was able to track the football hang time from foot-to-ground, (the punt on the preview news coverage, on the website), was a 5.0 second hang time punt. A punt on the full story was a 4.2. Just a few punts later (the punt aired twice near the end of the full story), I launched a monster 5.63+ at 50+ yards net with a 1.00 sec. hand-to-foot (which is probably a faster avg. getoff than all of the above punters, given my unique 1 1/2 step punting style). After that punt I turned and said... "take that one to the bank".
http://www.fakepunts.com/punt563.jpg
Posted by: Chris Edwards | 05/09/2009 at 16:27