Jeff Mitchell, Todd Sauerbrun and Todd Steussie
Read the article.
Don't be stupid,
I quote AGAIN
Testing for testosterone is difficult. Men naturally produce it in their bodies, but the levels vary widely from one man to the next. So in the NFL, only players with testosterone levels six times above normal are flagged as potential violators.
"It's almost like saying if the speed limit on a highway's 55 miles an hour, you're gonna give a ticket to only those that are speeding at over 100 miles an hour," says Fisch. "You could be missing a tremendous amount of steroid use below that level."
The NFL says it plans to toughen its screening for testosterone to bring it in line with recently stiffened standards for Olympic athletes. But there’s one banned substance the NFL doesn’t test for at all -- Human Growth Hormone, or HGH. Like steroids, HGH can make big athletes even bigger. The NFL is supporting research to develop a urine test, but there isn’t one at the moment, which means if you’re using HGH, it’s very hard to get caught.
And you think players aren't exploiting this?
Trackrunners are faced with way better testing than NFL players, yet they use drugs, and many of them are caught, while others aren't.
You might ask why they risk their careers and lives by using illegal substances, but the strive to be the best is so strong that they ignore all this.
Are NFL players less competitive than other athletes? No, not at all,
they just don't face the same advanced testing other athletes face, with the rules in the NFL today, you have to be stupid to be caught.
You can have 6 times the normal testosterone level before even being flagged as a potential violator, I say again
potential violator.
Therefore it is highly likely, and probably the case, that many players use steroids without being flagged, because they just use enough to avoid being flagged. Also, you don't need to raise your testosterone levels by six times to benefit greatly by it.
You can't ignore this DePack, there are probably many players using steroids in the NFL today, probably Packers players as well.
If the NFL were to be clean, players would drastically shrink in size.
Has anyone payed any attention to how size of the best javelin throwers in the world has developed the last 10 years?
As more comprehensive testing has been put to use, the athletes have become cleaner, and as a result of that, they have shrinked in size, and that goes for many of the olympic branches.
Just face it DePack, the NFL isn't as clean as it should be.