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🏈 Former NFL offensive lineman and three-time Super Bowl champion Mark Schlereth praised Steelers legend Mike Webster.
“My all-time favorite player… I wore 52 in high school because of Mike Webster,” Schlereth wrote on X.
“I’m a little bit twisted… I used to love to watch that guy just dominate the LOS. Was a huge Steelers fan and Webster’s consistent work without fanfare resonated with me as a kid.”
🏈 A new episode of Forging Steel drops tomorrow at 1 p.m. The preview of the episode shows Mike McCarthy addressing the team about having high tempo practices.
🏈 Steelers safety Jaquan Brisker is impressed with the grass fields at the FIFA World Cup. FIFA installed grass for the World Cup in 11 of the NFL stadiums that traditionally use synthetic turf.
“The natural grass on EVERY field looks amazing!” Brisker wrote on X.
🏈 Texas Tech transfer quarterback Brendan Sorsby plans to enter the NFL Supplemental Draf, according to Pete Thamel of ESPN. Amid the legal wrangling over his NCAA eligibility after admitting he bet on sports, he intends to head to the NFL.
🏈 The Cleveland Browns are unlikely to bid on Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby in the supplemental draft; Todd Monken also called it “a slippery slope”.
🏈 Former Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw, who appeared on The Joe Rogan The Experience podcast last week, got into a heated debate with Rogan over ivermectin COVID treatment claims.
“I got in trouble one time for saying… people were having during the COVID thing, and they were taking ivermectin,” Bradshaw told Rogan. “I didn’t know any better. I thought I knew, but I didn’t know. But Ivermectin, we used to give it to the cattle, right?”
“We’re in Hawaii,” he continued. “I run into a brain surgeon. And he says, “Are you okay with the COVID thing?” And I said, “Um, I had it, got over it, you know, I’m all right now.” And he says, “Boy, I tell you,” he said, “I take ivermectin, man. I said to him, obviously I said, ‘Really? It’s a cattle dewormer, ivermectin. Kills parasites.’ So I just left it at that, and I walked away and going ‘brain surgeon,’ I never could rationalize that kind of thinking.”
Rogan is a longtime supporter of ivermectin as a COVID treatment.
“There’s a ton of studies,” Rogan said. “There’s a lot of people that have written books. I’m not the guy to talk about it, but there’s a lot of evidence that the reason why they were not telling people to take ivormectin is because they wanted everybody to get vaccinated. But the reason why they wanted to get everyone to get vaccinated is not because it was effective. It’s because they wanted to make a lot of money, and that’s what they did.”
Bradshaw, who is a cattle farmer, wasn’t buying Rogan’s claim.
“Being a farmer, that’s all I used...
