Thursday, September 11, 2008

Oh, well — that’s all right then


In the long and sordid history of athletes' use of performance-enhancing drugs, a lot of stupid excuses and comments have been offered. We now have a new contender for the all-time dumbest.

After being forced to acknowledge he’d received testosterone cream and human-growth hormone from the now-infamous Palm Beach (Fla.) Rejuvenation Center, Ron Hornaday, the defending champion of the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, admitted using the cream, but said, “I never knew that was a steroid.”

No, that’s not the contender for all-time-dumbest.

For that, we turn to Hornaday’s wife, Lindy, who, after her husband fessed up to using the cream every day for 13 months, piped up with, "He never took it at the track. Only at home."

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