The news came out that Brian Cushing lost his appeal to the NFL, and will now be suspended as a result of a positive test for banned substances, stemming from a test last September. Immediately, sports writers including Peter King used their bully pulpits to proclaim that Brian Cushing cheated.
Say WHAT?
Okay, let's take a look at this for a moment.
Brian Cushing took a lie detector test to testify that he didn't take a performance enhancing drug. If you look at the NFL's list of banned substances, you are shit out of luck if you suffer from asthma, because beta2-agonists are banned. If you have nasal congestion, forget the Sudafed. Forget the diuretics (stuff people used in the 70's and 80's to lose weight). Of course, methamphetamine is also listed.
And that's what I really think it is. One plus one equals two. He tested positive for a banned substance, but it wasn't a steroid. I'd like to believe it was Sudafed or an anti-depressant, but I think it's meth.
Now, unfortunately for Brian Cushing, if it was meth, he'd be in more trouble than just being suspended for 4 games, but it also means that he's got a serious drug problem.
On the other hand, if it was because of a serious depression issue, this means that he's too embarrassed to come out about it, and he's being crucified by the press for treating a potential mental disease.
Either way, Cushing won't say what he was tested positive for, so if we take his lie detector test at face value, it seems most likely that he's telling the truth, but that the truth behind the truth is either embarrassing or just as bad as steroids, but not performance-enhancing i.e. elicit drugs.
But you know those media people, they're brilliantly endowed with incredible powers of deduction. Without looking deeper, they've already proclaimed that he cheated.
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