This steroids epidemic reached new heights today when a convicted steroid dealer who has begun naming NFL players who bought from him, was found shot in his house in Plano, Texas. The police have not confirmed a link between his past life as a steroids dealer and his death, but it makes too much sense to not be the case.
35 year old David Jacobs, along with a female friend named Amanda Jo Earhart-Savell, were found shot in Jacobs' home. The fact that Jacobs recently outed many NFL players as being steroid users, causes many people to see a strong connection between the death of Jacobs and the athletes that he recently named. This story takes an even crazier twist. According to ESPN the Magazine senior writer Shaun Assael, who has consistently been in contact with Jacobs over the last month, Jacobs expressed concern over the people he implicated through the information he shared with the NFL. This is a direct quote from David Jacobs: "The kinds of people I know about could put a bullet in the back of my head."
The steroid issue is a sad one because it has tarnished the record books in many professional sports. But it takes on a new importance when it transcends sports and begins to threaten human life either through ending the lives of children who misuse the drug in high school or in cases such as Jacobs', causes people whose reputation is being threatened to end the life of their accuser. This is yet another story that hints toward people taking athletics too seriously and convincing themselves that the life of another human is less important than having a tarnished reputation.
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