OT - Steroid Bust May Point to Steelers

[SoCalRaider]

Just like baseball five years ago, the NFL winks at the obvious use of HGH. Everyone knows that NFL players use HGH, but they can't prove it. Until they can. McGuire and Sosa weren't the only one's juicing, but they took the fall.

I don't really buy the comparison to what baseball went through 5 years ago. It was well known that those guys were using Andro to dope for D-bol. It was also well known that by banning useless prohormones like Andro, the doping would come to an end... Baseball needed those guys to hit HRs as much as those guys needed D-bol to hit the homeruns. Baseball got what it needed, and neither McGuire nor Sosa will ever get laid again.

hGH is a different story altogether. The reason the NFL, NBA, NHL, and that other sport don't test for hGH is because they don't know how to. How do you test for a transmitter that your body naturally produces?

Btw... the "test for excessively high levels of hGH" doesn't work because your body can naturally spike its own hGH levels. The "tagging" argument is even weaker.

 

[R4Life]

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I don't really buy the comparison to what baseball went through 5 years ago. It was well known that those guys were using Andro to dope for D-bol. It was also well known that by banning useless prohormones like Andro, the doping would come to an end... Baseball needed those guys to hit HRs as much as those guys needed D-bol to hit the homeruns. Baseball got what it needed, and neither McGuire nor Sosa will ever get laid again.

hGH is a different story altogether. The reason the NFL, NBA, NHL, and that other sport don't test for hGH is because they don't know how to. How do you test for a transmitter that your body naturally produces?

Btw... the "test for excessively high levels of hGH" doesn't work because your body can naturally spike its own hGH levels. The "tagging" argument is even weaker.

The comparison is the unifficial 'policy' of doing nothing because you have a good excuse to do nothing, whatever that reason is (needing HR to save the sport or not having a test). They will develop a test for it eventually, but that's not the point. Because they cannot test for it, they are finding other ways to catch people (busting the suppliers) and some will go down in flames for it. Doctors, when faced with losing everything, will rat out their clients (see Carolina) or at least allow their files to be raided.
The fallout is what I'm hoping for and I'm hoping it lands somewhere else (Lord are you listening?) than Oakland.