The Jerk Store: Floyd Landis
This is Floyd Landis and his book which has more bullshit than A Million Little Pieces...
Floyd Landis used drugs to make him both a better cyclist and a Tour de France champion. So what. Cycling is the dirtiest game in sports. The Russian weightlifters during the cold war Olympiads had cleaner wins than anyone in cycling. Using performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) does not put Landis in the Jerk Store. There are too many dirty sports figures these days for Landis to be the singled out for Jerk Store selection on that basis alone.
Landis gets entry for what he did after getting caught. It was not the lies, of which there were many. It was the fact that he took money from people, people right here in his home of Lancaster County, to fuel a bullshit legal defense for his use of PEDs. That is utterly indefensible. Floyd took their money and held fundraisers all over Central PA (especially Lancaster) to pay for lawyers to deal with his cheating. He claimed innocence at no end and needed their money to further his lies and to fight the truth.
Landis is a con man. He perpetrated a fraud on friends by telling them that the charges were false and that he needed money to defend his character. A character that they trusted so much that they handed over their hard earned dollars to help defend. I don’t recall Mark McGwire hitting up Cardinals fans for cash so as to defend his inability to talk about the past before Congress. Jose Canseco has sold his dignity in order to pay his bills; which puts his character several rungs above that of Landis.
What kind of rationalization must Landis have discussed inside his head that would have caused him to shun his Mennonite upbringing and toss it all aside so as to not only dope his way to the finish line but to then go and commit fraud against the people that loved him most? His parents had to visit a neighbor to watch their son compete because they don’t own a TV! This has to be horribly embarrassing to them.
Some sports columnist have reached back into the over-used-column-ideas-well to say that “America’s a forgiving country.” They believe that since he has admitted to not only taking PEDs but that he did it for an edge that people will forgive. That maybe true but what can not be forgiven is the fraud, and this is fraud, that he perpetrated on those that believed him and gave him money. For that, there should be no forgiveness.
So Floyd…enjoy begging for money in the Jerk Store.
Thanks for coming and suckling on Daddy’s Sugar Ball…
Bearcat
Posted by Bearcat at 6/3/2010 3:00 PM 
Categories: Jerk Store
Tags: cycling Floyd Landis Tour de France
Categories: Jerk Store
Tags: cycling Floyd Landis Tour de France
The whole thing stinks. Had Landis been honest, or at least not as vindictive and kept on pushing the lie like he had, he would eventually be forgiven. Trying to take others down with him, along with all that other stuff... there is a special place in hell for him,
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