We’ve written a couple of items about Terry Bradshaw’s stunning (to us, at least) steroids use admission, and his subsequent effort to explain that, when he talked about steroids, he wasn’t talking about steroids.

We also talked about the item at length with Dan Patrick (his show can be heard on demand at any time, for free), and with Chris McClain of WFNZ in Charlotte.

We’ve got two more things to say about the situation.

First, and as we’ve previously said, the reference to steroids was meaningless if Bradshaw was merely referring to the same kind of anti-inflammatory steroids that can still be used legally by NFL players. 

Second, the notion that Bradshaw’s steroids were prescribed by a doctor doesn’t automatically mean that it wasn’t an anabolic steroid.  As we told McClain, the team that plays in his market had several players during their Super Bowl season who were reportedly getting steroids via prescription from Dr. James Shortt.

Third (okay, we’ve got three things to say), it’s amazing to us how quickly the media has accepted Bradshaw’s self-serving “clarification” and moved on.  Yeah, he’s a Hall of Famer and, by all appearances, a great guy.  But so what?  Do only assholes use steroids?  If the media has any interest in developing a better understanding of precisely how prevalent the use of these compounds was in years before they were banned and/or illegal, admissions from key players of that era can’t be pooh-poohed when the player in question tries to talk his way out of the poo-poo into which he inadvertently buried his foot.