• Tedy Bruschi returns from stroke to play for the Patriots; Or does he return from suspension the NFL doesn't want to reveal?
  
  February 2005 - Stroke. Cause: Personal. Not released to public. Likelihood: Steroids.
  Annual steroid testing for NFL players: Random. While his number comes up for random testing he's in the hospital. NFL won't test him then because the test would come back skewed from the drugs used to rehabilitate him from the stroke.
  
  October 2005- Just like that he is back on the practice field and wanting to play again. No 7.5 minutes pieces on Sunday morning football shows about his progress, how hard he is training to come back. "It's a stroke and it's a long process coming back from that. It may take years for him to fully recover", you might have heard.
  
  Parallel Bruschi with Ricky Williams coming back just like that after serving a 4-game suspension for violation of the leagues drug policy. Just like that Ricky Williams is back because the suspension is over. Just like that Bruschi is back because the suspension is over?
  
  Why would the NFL subterfuge his suspension?
  He plays for the reigning Super Bowl champs
  He had a stroke and that evokes a sympathy factor
  He plays on the East coast whose media bias is pervasive.
  To allow a steroid suspension for him would seriously damage the NFL's credibility.
  
  Bruschi got off the same way that Barry Bonds got off. Suspended but allowed to use injury as a cover. The same way that Michael Jordan got off. Suspended for gambling, but allowed to use the grief of a dying parent as cover. Yeah, what happened to the stories on grief when he decided to play baseball? Ok to use grief as an excuse over here in basketball for why he's leaving, but over here in baseball it's a healing process. Oh right, he was going to drive his kids to school too. Forgot about that one.