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Lyle Alzado View of Steroid Use
Lyle Alzado
My name is Lyle Martin Alzado, I was born on April third, nineteen forty nine, in Brooklyn, New York. I had a rough childhood, my father left my family while I was in high school, and I had to help my mother support my four younger brothers and sisters by getting a job. During high school I played football, as a defensive lineman. When I was playing I always tried my best and played as hard as I could. I was never the star player on the team; I played pretty averagely, and I never really stood out on the team. Also I was undersized compared to the other players. After graduation no colleges gave me scholarships for playing football. Being undersized and playing averagely I wasn’t the best athlete. I tried out for the Kilgore Junior College’s football team in nineteen sixty four, but they told me that I wasn’t good enough to play for them. I was finally accepted to Yankton College in South Dakota; I started taking steroids to play football better after being accepted, in order to play better and to insure my place on their football team. In nineteen seventy one I was the Denver Broncos fourth draft pick. I was a defensive lineman the same as in high school. I became a formidable player by the end of my rookie year. I outran, outhit, outanythinged everybody. All along I was taking steroids and I saw that they made me play better and better. In nineteen seventy seven, I was named the AFC’s 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, it’s all I cared about, I never talked about anything else, and steroids helped me keep 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 make a comeback in nineteen ninety with the Raiders but I immediately had a knee injury that prevented me

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