Raiders on roids?

[donovan]

Was reading about Jason Taylor basically blasting Shawne Merriman, and loving it, until I thought of what someone said to me in an argument about it earlier this year. I was laying into Merriman, but he reminded me that at least a few Raiders from the '83 team were on steroids.

We could get into all that, and feel free to if you want, but my main question–as I wasn't even alive at the time–is, how many Raiders, exactly, do you figure juiced?

I know about Lyle of course.

But who else?

Moss seemed to imply it was a whole bunch of guys. Then again that's Moss.

 

[SoCalRaider]

The Raiders always seem to be a lightning rod when it comes to roids... but one thing to keep in mind is back in the day, roids were a common thing with the majority of NFL franchises, not just the Raiders. If you dig into some books on the NFL in the 70s, you'll see that most NFL lineman played with the stuff at some point, and there were even a few well-respected college programs that were notorious for giving their lineman roids.