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Prophetic? (spoiler alert)

posted 15 years ago by SivakoffDavid
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It's impossible to sit down to watch a football game, or even Dancing With The Stars, without being subjected to multiple ads for both Viagra and Cialis. Cialis even now boasts a "daily dosage" protocol.

Reilly's character as a football player struggling to succeed in spite of all the symptoms that apparently come with Sexual Dysfunction is just heart-breaking to watch. I think that 10 years ago someone would have dismissed a condition like this as an anomaly, or an exception to the rule, but now the media seems to be saturating us with the idea that it is inevitable, only a matter of time, before most men will need a pill to have sex.

I wonder how many men will have to hear from their wives the same thing Anderson's stripper character says to Reilly's football player:

"Did you take your pills? Maybe you should increase the dose."

How is man supposed to feel like a man after something like that?

[–] alexisann 15 years ago

Football is not the only sport to endorse medication for ED. Remember when Texas Rangers star Rafael Palmiero used to do the commercial where he took Viagra to boost his "performance," and then hit batting practice homeruns?

Too bad he was thrown out of baseball the following year for lying to the grand jury about steroid use. Ha!

In Jose Canseco's book, "Juiced" he talks about his committment to staying on the sauce life-long as a means of enhancing his sexual prowess. Jose also claims that Growth Hormone made his johnson bigger, a claim that his ex-wife endorses.

So, who knows, maybe the junk mail we receive for making our members bigger will be coming soon to a TV commercial break at half-time.

Check out the movie clips on the IMDb site for Major League to see just how prevalent the problem of steroid use is in baseball. And where there is steroid use, there is ED.