Houston Texans cornerback Kareem Jackson is in some moral hot water this week, as his vacation to the Dominican Republic took a turn for the moronic after he Tweeted pictures of himself at a cockfight. While cockfighting is perfectly legal in the Dominican, that doesn’t relieve Jackson of the scrutiny he will face back here within the moral fabric of the U.S. of A. And he should be scrutinized because he’s a professional athlete, a prominent figure in his community, he makes more than $3 million a year (with more than $10 million of his contract guaranteed) and countless other athletes and celebrities have paved the way with their own forms of stupidity with animals. Has Richard Gere taught us nothing?

So what were the Tweets that have brought this attention to the guy who had 71 tackles and 2 interceptions in his rookie year for one of the NFL’s worst defenses?

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Steroid Nation picked up a nice little story from the Houston Chronicle that details the flourishing cockfighting industry in Texas. And friends, the ugly reach of steroids has spread from baseball to football to our most beloved illegal animal fighting tradition imported from Mexico:

Roosters are shorn of their combs and wattles, fitted with razor blades or ice picks and often injected with steroids or blood-clotting drugs before being forced to fight to the death.

This is an outrage! I demand more stringent steroid-testing for our nation's fighting cocks! Can we stand idly by while we watch Little Jerry Seinfeld's records fall to Little Barry Bonds?

I have heard, however, that women prefer a cock with a shorn wattle. I've been considering doing that myself.