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\"\"<\/a>Sorry, I had to create this cartoon image after reading the story over at the Daily Diagnosis Blog (NY Daily News) about athletes using Viagra as a performance enhancer (see “Viagra, the new vitamin<\/a>“).<\/p>\n

“Any sport that’s primarily an aerobic sport would benefit — cross-country skiing, cyclists, marathoners, 10K runners, 5K runners,” said John Romano, a senior editor of the bodybuilding magazine Muscular Development.<\/p>\n

I invite my more creative Pharma BlogosphereTM buddies to come up with Viagra-enhanced athlete images for these other sports.<\/p>\n

If only Pfizer could sponsor such a contest on Flickr or on its own Viva Viagra web site! Alas, it is forbidden to do so because that would be promoting an off-label<\/a> use of Viagra and the FDA would send them a nasty letter — about 2 months after the contest was over!<\/p>\n

But wait! This story in the New York Daily News (“Why Vitamin V is a great workout partner<\/a>“) is the next best thing! What product manager could ask for more?<\/p>\n

You’ll note that the story does not mention any other erectile dysfunction (ED) drug — eg, Levitra or Cialis — by name, even though I would have thought Cialis would be the ED drug of choice for most athletes. You know, for when the “moment is right.”<\/p>\n

Here’s my Cialis scenario for Major-League wood enhancement.<\/p>\n

It’s the bottom of the ninth and the Yanks are behind 5 to 3. There are 2 outs and 2 men on base. Derek Jetter is up at bat with 2 strikes. If the time was ever right, it’s now! Derek glances over at the Yankee wives box. Bingo! Homer!<\/p>\n

Why is it that Viagra is always mentioned by name in these kind of stories when we all know that its competitors may be just as effective in such off-label uses? Could it be that Pfizer wines and dines reporters more than its competitors do? I know Pfizer invites reporters to “roundtables.” Did Pfizer invite the NY Daily News reporter and\/or blogger who wrote the above stories to a nice dinner with Derek or Roger? Inquiring minds want to know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sorry, I had to create this cartoon image after reading the story over at the Daily Diagnosis Blog (NY Daily News) about athletes using Viagra as a performance enhancer (see “Viagra, the new vitamin“). “Any sport that’s primarily an aerobic sport would benefit — cross-country skiing, cyclists, marathoners, 10K runners, 5K runners,” said John Romano, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[139,108,1074],"topic":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nViagra Induces Major-League Wood! - Pharma Marketing Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/blog\/viagra-induces-major-league-wood\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Viagra Induces Major-League Wood! 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