Lyle Alzado View of Steroid Use

Also I was undersized compared to the former(a) players. After graduation no colleges gave me scholarships for playing football. Being undersized and playing averagely I wasnt the best athlete. I tried out for the Kilgore Junior Colleges football team in lodgeteen sixty four, but they told me that I wasnt good enough to play for them. I was finally accepted to Yankton College in South Dakota I started taking steroids to play football better after being accepted, in order to play better and to gibe my place on their football team.In nineteen seventy one I was the Denver Broncos fourth rough drawing pick. I was a defensive lineman the same as in proud school. I became a formidable player by the end of my rookie year. I outran, outwit, authenticated everybody. All along I was taking steroids and I saw that they made me play better and better. In nineteen seventy seven, I was named the Oafs defensive player of the year and the defensive lineman of the year. I went from being and ave rage player in high school, to being a feared professional football player in Just a sonorously a(prenominal) years.I was so wild about winning, its all I cared about, I never talked about anything else, and steroids helped me keep on winning. In nineteen eighty four, I retired from football due to an injury to my Achilles tendon, which I believe was puddle by my steroid use. I tried to make a comeback in nineteen xc with the Raiders but I immediately had a knee injury that prevented me from playing. By the end of my football passage I was name all-pro twice and had a total of ninety seven sacks In one one C ninety six games. I had done well for someone who had no hope In high school of playing professional oddball.All during my college and professional football career I was taking steroids. I pass around thirty thousand dollars a year on steroids. All the time on the heavens I was fierce, mean, and determined to win, but off the field I had a hard time turn these emotions off. One of my teammates described me as have a split personality, on the field he project a tough image, He said. But off the field I was like a profane giant. When the game was over, I would be plagued with mood swings from the steroids I could keep a good relationship with people.I was hook up with four times over the phone line of my football career. Once a man sideswiped my car in Denver and I followed him base and beat him up In his front yard. I couldnt control my anger. I abused my second wife so much that she called the police five times on me during the course of our marriage. In March of nineteen ninety one, during my wedding to my fourth wife Kathy, I had a hard time keeping my balance while walking. A month later I was diagnosed with a chemotherapy treatment, in an attempt to cure the brain tumor.I died over a year after being diagnosed in my home in Portland, Oregon. I told Sports Illustrated before my goal that I had started taking steroids in nineteen sixty nine and never stooped. I wanted to tell others to stop taking steroids. It wasnt worth it to me, steroids caused me to become detached from my friends and family, I couldnt keep a good relationship due to the mood swings caused by my steroid use. Ultimately my death was caused by steroids, they had made my appear strong on the outside while they wrecked my mind and body.