OT: The NFL Smuggling Narcotics Across State Lines

[Ronsonic]

Originally Posted by pbarry

I was ecstatic when my little 6' 4" brother, who was a middling highschool lineman, got into Penn on an AS and never played another down. I did not want him to face the pressures he might have, even in college ball.

College ball? I was in high school ... decades ago .... when the coach called a meeting during summer two-adays to talk about "doing what it takes." He used Don as an example. Suggested we talk to him afterward, he's got a doctor. Don put on 25 pounds between last season and summer. He had a flaming skunk stripe down his back.

I don't know when Lance started doping, but I'll bet cash money on the starting line up of his high school football team.

Ordinary people consider doping to be reasonable to end up being a Barry Bonds. Doping to become Michael Rasmussen ....

[bikinchris]

Everyone but the sports announcers know that EVERY sport is rife with dopers. Except those announcers keep pointing to cycling as a "dirty sport" because they went after the dopers and caught some. Lance was a scapegoat. Everyone he beat was doping. Everyone Lemond and Indurain beat was a doper. Every one. Yet lance is a hated and Lemond and Indurain are held up on a pedestal.

If any of you think that any sport is immune to doping, you are frankly naïve. Even golfers do it.

American pro sports have agreements that require a heads up before a doping test. Sometimes as much as a week. At that point, it becomes an IQ test, not a doping test.

[Elefantino]

I sometimes watch snooker on Eurosport.

I don't think snooker players dope.

[pbarry]

Originally Posted by Elefantino

I sometimes watch snooker on Eurosport.

I don't think snooker players dope.

Adderall must have made it into the ranks by now.

[pbarry]

Originally Posted by Ronsonic

College ball? I was in high school ... decades ago .... when the coach called a meeting during summer two-adays to talk about "doing what it takes." He used Don as an example. Suggested we talk to him afterward, he's got a doctor. Don put on 25 pounds between last season and summer. He had a flaming skunk stripe down his back.

I don't know when Lance started doping, but I'll bet cash money on the starting line up of his high school football team.

Ordinary people consider doping to be reasonable to end up being a Barry Bonds. Doping to become Michael Rasmussen ....

You get it and have seen it close up. Scary.

[Elefantino]

Originally Posted by pbarry

Adderall must have made it into the ranks by now.

I need Adderall to watch more than a few minutes of snooker.

[adub]

Why should the NFL and its players be any different than the rest of 'merica and it's propensity to take prescription painkillers like they are rainbow skittles?