Breaking: Brian Cushing still a cheater, still suspended first four games of the 2010 NFL season

In today’s game, there is no place for any kind of cheater. Steroids not only can kill the players taking them, but they alter the playing field for legit players.

It would be one thing if the stigma of cheating didn’t already follow Cushing every where he’s gone, but he’s been rumored to be a cheat since HS.

False positive test results do happen, and for every case, there should be several tests done before you can confirm it. However, this is just a very fraction of the amount of people who are actually caught…

from wikipedia: “Human chorionic gonadotropin or human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG) is a glycoprotein hormone produced in pregnancy that is made by the developing embryo after conception”

I kinda doubt he was pregnant…

There were rumblings back here in Jersey that he was cheating with ’roids then.

It’s only four games. It’s more a moral thing than anything else.

Testosterone is not HGH and neither of those are the HCG he actually tested for.

First of all he tested positive for slightly elevated levels of HCG, which yes is commonly used to make the testes start producing testosterone after completing a steroid cycle. But can also be naturally produced by a male in certain cases.

First of all there is no evidence as to how much “Slightly elevated” is. Brian Cushing was also having issues with a few of his glands which could cause naturally occuring HCG in a male.
I am in no way saying he is a saint. And obviously he hasn’t tested positive since, and from what i have seen his size has not decreased in the offseason (Which occurs when one stops using anabolic steroids a drastic body mass drop.)

BBS say what you want about Brian Cushing.

But.

Cushing is a physical freak. I don’t think it is impossible that his hormones are over active. It would go towards the reasons that he has been suspected of Steroid abuse, but has never once tested positive.

I know I’m a biased Texans fan, but Cushing isn’t the only freak in the NFL. Lets think of a few:
Brett Farve – Who is a great QB, but has no decision making skills
Ray Lewis – Who always is in the right place to make a tackle, does he have supernatural powers?
Jevon Kearse – Who had a massive wingspan, making it easy to fend off blocks and swat down passes
and Peyton Manning – Who, due to an oversized brain (and maybe having an NFL great QB as a father) has become possibly the the greatest passer in NFL, ever! (Don’t believe me about the over-sized brain, look at his forehead!!)

To re-iterate what Taco Joe has said, because he can obviously type quicker than me, Cushing test positive for elevated HCG levels. We don’t know how elevated, because of the type of testing involved. I am also yet to see information what level is normal.

If you don’t believe me, that is fine, but how about 50% of the NFL’s own experts? Of the two NFL experts who were questioned at the appeal (which he lost, I know) Sided with Cushing, that it was at such a low level it could have been produced normally.

While I’m disappointed about the suspension, I am more concerned about the long term view, you need to be when you support the Texans. lol. If Cushing tests positive a second time he is gone for a year, a whole season. I’m glad they have taken this right to Goodell. Now everything is on the record and in the future the testing will hopefully be more accurate so that it won’t be questioned again. Either we’ll know he was or he wasn’t.

not “tenant.”

How can you have a civil discourse with someone who can’t even get his side of the story straight? “HGH?” Author, you better push that Edit button and fix that, for starters. That isn’t even part of this conversation. And, while your at it, fix “Rookie of the Year”, too. He was Defensive Rookie of the Year. And, “elevated levels of testosterone?” Where did you get that? This is pure blogger bullsh*t! What a waste of time reading this crap…..all that everyone says about you appears to be true.

Your opinion is your prerogative. I think he’s likely guilty too. At least try to get basic facts right though. Cushing did not test positive for elevated levels of testosterone. He tested positive for HCG…not HGH. Claiming that elevated levels of testosterone is a sign of HGH use also shows a level of ignorance. If high testosterone were a sign of HGH use it wouldn’t be so hard to detect, and wouldn’t require a special blood test(that has yet to be accepted as far as I know).

Also I think it would be logical to assume that Mcnair, after spending hundreds of thousands of dollars out of his pocket, at least felt he had some medical evidence when he went to the commissioner. No one knows the details of what McNair presented to the commish. All we know is that it had something to do with OAS and Cushing’s pituitary. OAS does sound pretty shaky, but the enlarged pituarity condition is a fact. I think for anyone to make a judgment on evidence they haven’t seen is irresponsible…like if I tried to claim a
Marvin Harrison is definitely guilty of murder without doing anything more than skimming the headlines.

The NFL’s excuse? It costs too much to use the real test for this……really?

than colts fans. Plus I love that bbs has yet to respond.