If You Believe Lance, I Have a Bridge for Sale

They are our heroes. They run faster, bike harder, catch better than most everyone else on the planet, and perform amazing feats with their bodies that we can only dream of doing ourselves. And for that we pay them millions of dollars and exalt them to the heavens. Athletes. They represent our country in competition, and define who we are as a culture.

Lance Armstrong, Barry Bonds, Mark McGuire and probably hundreds, if not thousands of other professional athletes who have used performance enhancing drugs. They do this to win and they excuse it by saying "Everyone else is doing it, so I do it to even out the playing field." But everyone else doesn't do it because human nature isn't so dark that we all would lower ourselves to cheat in order to win. But yes, many athletes cheat because  it pays off if they don't get caught.

We have been taught to cheat by our coaches too. Not necessarily with performance enhancing drugs, but with lying. Look at the wide receiver who knows he dropped the ball or used the ground to catch it who will swear the catch was clean. I can go on with myriad examples, but you get my point.

It wasn't Armstrong's cheating that was the worst part of the story, it was his lying, then accusing, then suing those who rightly accused him. Lance Armstrong is a bully and now has gone on Oprah to advance his career once again. I will not fall for it and I hope you won't either.

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