Lyle Alzado View of Steroid Use

Also I was undersized compared to the other histrions. After graduation no colleges gave me scholarships for playing footb tout ensemble. Being undersized and playing averagely I wasnt the best athlete. I tried out for the Kilgore jr. Colleges football team in nineteen 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 pickings steroids to play football give away by and by being accepted, in order to play better and to insure my stick on their football team.In nineteen seventy one I was the capital of Colorado Broncos fourth draft pick. I was a defensive lineman the identical as in soaring school. I became a formidable player by the end of my rookie year. I outran, outwit, authenticated everybody. All on 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 average player in high school, to being a feared professional football player in Just a few years.I was so wild about winning, its all I cared about, I never talked about anything else, and steroids helped me concord on winning. In nineteen eighty four, I retired from football due to an injury to my Achilles tendon, which I believe was cause by my steroid use. I tried to chip in 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 career I was name all-pro twice and had a total of ninety seven sacks In one hundred 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 spent around thirty thousand dollars a year on steroids. All the time on the field I was fierce, mean, and determined to win, but off the field I had a large(p) time turnin g these emotions off. One of my teammates described me as have a split personality, on the field he projected a gnarled image, He said. But off the field I was like a gentle giant. When the game was oer, I would be plagued with mood swings from the steroids I could keep a good relationship with people.I was married four times over the course of my football career. Once a man sideswiped my car in Denver and I followed him home and beat him up In his scarer 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 resume the brain tumor.I died over a year after being diagnosed in my home in Portland, Oregon. I told Sports Illustrated before my death that I had started taking steroids in ninetee n sixty nine and never stooped. I cute 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 laborious on the outside while they wrecked my mind and body.