Friday, August 24, 2012

Tygar: The Anti-Doping Superhero

Investigations spurred by allegations of doping against Travis T. Tygart have revealed a stockpile of steroids and a superhero costume found in a secret storage space rented out to someone who reportedly “looks a lot like” Travis T. Tygart. It has been postulated by investigators that Mr. Tygart, the chief executive officer of the USADA, has been secretly taking steroids in order to have the physical strength to defeat steroid-using athletes as his superhero alter-ego: Tygar. The superhero costume is orange with black tiger stripes on it, with a mask that looks like a tiger, and a big broken syringe on the chest, and “Tygar” written across a cape. It has not been established yet that the costume is indeed Tygart’s, or that Tygart is using steroids, but investigators stated: “I mean, what else are we supposed to think here? Obviously this guy started to see his life as a giant one-man crusade against steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs, and in order to win this fight, he got seduced into using steroids himself, like so many athletes with the ‘win at all costs’ attitude. I mean, you can see from the way he ruthlessly persecutes innocent athletes that his mind has been twisted by this obvious fanaticism and obsession with winning, and people like that are generally the most susceptible to steroid use.”

Still, it has not been explained, if Tygart is indeed using steroids and posing as a superhero alter-ego, why he seemingly has no bulging muscles anywhere, although scientists have hypothesized that he becomes hugely muscular when he puts on the superhero costume, which psychologically triggers the steroids, so he bursts into a ripped, muscular physique like the guy in the video game Altered Beast. But whether this new superhero is Tygart himself, or merely someone else inspired by Tygart to combat steroid use in athletics, it’s wonderful to have a new caped crusader afoot in our glorious country to fight against cheating in sports (although it does not excuse him using steroids himself!). And it’s also possible, however unlikely, that the stash of steroids found with the superhero costume are merely the steroids confiscated from cheating athletes by our new hero, and that he’s not even using them himself, but merely defeating the steroid menace with the power of his own obsessive personality. And maybe this would make more sense after all, because it generally does not work to fight fire with fire, unless it’s like an oil well fire or something, or like maybe a brush fire, or a forest fire, and you’re fighting fire indirectly with other fire by getting rid of potential fuel or something. So maybe he doesn’t use steroids.

In any case, we can only hope we will soon see the spectacle of Tygar the superhero busting his way into athletic competitions as they are broadcast on television, grabbing cheating athletes and forcing them to confess to the world that they’re “juicing”! Why, it will be like watching a Batman movie, except where the bad guys are champion athletes rather than super villains, and it’s funny, rather than exciting. In fact, why not just make a superhero movie of Tygar: The Steroid-Smashing Superhero! (And because he’s against “juicing”, maybe the movie could be sponsored by sugary sodas, or else by Jamba Juice, who says: “Juice the right way with the all-natural ingredients in Jamba Juice!”)

(Now, naturally I’m just joking here: Tygart is not a superhero. He only thinks he is.)