When will the NFL have their BALCO?

I agree 100% with what you said. How many 6'8, 300-lb men do you see walking down the street on any given day? If anything, I'd guess doping is more rampant in football than in most sports.

It will never happen. The owners, the TV and sports media, and the cities which have teams couldn't afford drug controls. American football would turn into something closer to rugby if the drug use was banned.

I think people do turn a blind eye. Football's records etc. don't have the same mystique and history that Baseball's do, so I feel like people don't care as much.

The NFL is the biggest chew-em up, use-em up, spit-em out league there is. Only recently is any gaurenteed money being given to their athletes. The league hardly wants to make any concessions to the concussion problem, and it's only doing that kicking and screaming. So I really find it improbable that they'll ever, on their own, try and do anything about steroids. It'll take many messed up veterans with severe health problems to even get the league to crack the door and see what's sitting own their front porch. But alas, the fans have something to do with this also. Every time the stadium rises and cheers for a kamikazee hit on some poor bastard punt returner or wide receiver (who will somehow pop up and act as if he didn't just get waylaid by a Mack truck) we solidify their choice of using steroids. It's a market driven epidemic.

Steroid use in the NFL is banned right?

6 a side rugby at that, wouldn't be enough players to go round.

The truth. Track and field are big offenders. They long to be manly with their skinny sunken chests, their tiny penises and bird-like legs. What's not to like about drugs that will build you up and make you look like a man?

There are worse crimes.

90% of the NFL is involved somehow, I am sure of it. There is no way that the weight room can create the monsters we see out there. And there is no way that any average group of people commit as many assaults, and crimes of aggression. That being said, the NFL is worth BILLIONS, and no one will mess with the cash machine. Every Republican member of Congress is watching games on Sunday, and they don't care.

The truth shall set you free wrote:

The truth. Track and field are big offenders. They long to be manly with their skinny sunken chests, their tiny penises and bird-like legs. What's not to like about drugs that will build you up and make you look like a man?

Steroids won't do much for 'tiny penises' though! And how manly are shriveled testicles and breasts, erectile disfunction and impotence?

"There are also gender-specific side effects of anabolic steroids. Development of breast tissue in males, a condition called gynecomastia (which is usually caused by high levels of circulating estrogen), may arise because of increased conversion of testosterone to estrogen by the enzyme aromatase. Reduced sexual function and temporary infertility can also occur in males. Another male-specific side effect which can occur is testicular atrophy, caused by the suppression of natural testosterone levels, which inhibits production of sperm (most of the mass of the testes is developing sperm). This side effect is temporary: the size of the testicles usually returns to normal within a few weeks of discontinuing anabolic steroid use as normal production of sperm resumes."

They already have had their own BALCO -- they were part of it.

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Lyle Alzado

'nuff said.

The NFL will do watever they have to in order to cover it up and protect their big name stars, just like MLB protects Barry Roid Rage Bonds.

The NFL like all sports have a steroid problem, having that, the NFL has been suspending guys for quite some time. Thats one reason the fans dont flip out if someone is caught like in baseball. Baseball is a game that tried to hide its problem all the while promoting players who were using the drug.

krunksta wrote:

how do they some how not have a steroid issue?

They have a million times more and power covering it up.

^^ more money*b

They've had their issues. Shawne Merriman, David Boston, Rodney Harrison, half the Carolina Panthers, Pittsburgh Steelers team doctor. People just don't make an issue out of it like they do in other sports.

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They've had their issues. Shawne Merriman, David Boston, Rodney Harrison, half the Carolina Panthers, Pittsburgh Steelers team doctor. People just don't make an issue out of it like they do in other sports.

Because they suspend them for a few games. What kind of bullshit is that? Suspend them for two years on the first offense, and ban them for life for subsequent offenses. When you start costing teams good players on a long term basis and you cost the players their whole salary, you'll make some progress.

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CORINNE SHIGEMOTO - 1986 U.S. Heavyweight Judo Champion.

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