Jay Cutler's name has been getting a lot of press lately in regards to the recent Denver trade debacle. His tirade against his current team for involving him in trade talks was the first we'd heard from Cutler since the pro bowl, and now his face is plastered on every sports page, website and blog. Well I've been following a story about the Broncos' quarterback that has been going on for the past year, and yet the rest of the media has turned a blind eye to it again and again:
Folks, we all hear about performance enhancing drugs, and the well known names that have been caught using them: Rodger Clemens, A-Rod, Tony Mandarich, Dr. Bruce Banner, the list goes on... But where, and this goes out to all of sports media, where I ask, is the coverage of one Jay Cutler, and his blatant use of the performance enhancing drug insulin?
It's no secret that in 2008, the second year quarterback out of Vanderbilt was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. For the record, type 1 diabetes isn't the kind you get from a lifetime of eating poorly and not getting enough exercise (that's type 2). Type 1 is the perfectly natural kind that God gives you because he's bored, or because your parents had sex before they were married. Anyway, after being diagnosed he starts testing his blood sugar and using insulin and immediately starts to feel better. So let's get this straight, Cutler is dealt a poor hand in life, so he just sticks a needle into his arm and proceeds to have his best year as a pro? I CALL BULLSHIT.
The fact of the matter is, Jay Cutler would not have thrown for over 4500 yards, 25 touchdowns and be elected to the pro bowl if he was playing all natural and drug free right now. In a 2008 interview with Michael Silver of Yahoo Sports, Cutler flagrantly taunted his use of the superman drug,
"This goes everywhere with me," Cutler said, spinning the pouch as though it were a football after he'd just snuck across the goal line.
Do you know what that pouch contains? Syringes full of insulin, or as it's known on the street "'betes-meth". It's fitting that Silver equates this action to an end zone celebration, because Cutler has plenty to celebrate, since with his new wonder potion he can prevent himself from passing out on the sideline, a luxury not shared by other NFL quarterbacks.
Cutler continues his interview, detailing what his life was like before enhancing his football playing abilities with blood sugar monitors and insulin.
"I was eating six meals a day – I'd eat a meal and like 30 minutes later I'd be ready to eat again. Yet I kept losing weight, and they were telling me it was the stress. I was like, 'I'm not that stressed.' I mean, my jeans were falling off my body and I was all pale. I looked like hell."So let me get this straight, Cutler went from being thin and weak, to a rocket armed QB who claims to throw harder than John Elway? Does that sound like someone else we know?
Cutler is laughing in the face of diseased and/or generally unhealthy athletes everywhere, and the national sports media glorifies it with phrases like "overcoming adversity," and "inspiration to millions of American's with diabetes," well Rodger Clemens overcame something too, being old and sucking. And he did it by sticking a needle in his arm, just like Jay Cutler.
How could the sports world drop the ball like this? I don't have the answers, I just ask the hard hitting questions, and hopefully some eyes have been opened today.
I'm a Slut.
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