Get bent Goddell..

Take it easy Carl. I wouldn’t call taking a diuretic cheating. If that’s the case then I guess you could call the packer fans that take them to squeeze into size 48 jeans cheaters too.

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yeah, I’m sure they were just trying to lose weight. What are they? High school wrestlers….

If it were pedigree, why didn’t he play more in high school? Why wasn’t he highly recruited? Why didn’t he start before his final year @ USC? Why did he experience a massive and sudden body change in a short period of time?

If you’ve got the pedigree then you have the pedigree. The skills are natural and inate, you don’t don’t suddenly develope them so much later in life.

The story in and around USC was that there were numerous players “enhancing” their bodies and Matthews was among them.

While people are right, until they catch him he is presumed innocent in a court of law. However, he’s in the court of public opinion, and as many celebrities have found out throughout the years, no such edict exists there.

Many of you on here are forgetting that one of the players (Duece McAllister I believe) asked about the product via the NFL’s hotline and never got a straight answer.

Also, the league allowed previous players who tested positive for the same thing to get off without punishment. In the regular working world, non systematic punishment would open up a whole can of worms.

These guys weren’t suspended for *not* taking NFL approved products.

They were suspended for having a banned substance in their system.

It’s completely their fault. There’s a list of banned substances the NFL has published. It’s upon the players to know what their “supplements” contain.

If they don’t want to go through the trouble of getting it checked out they can stick with EAS, the only NFL approved supplement supplier.

These guys had to pay more because they fought it rather than taking responsibility for their error.

I have zero sympathy for them.

You’re bitter, I get it. Seriously, do any Vikings fans think that maybe, just maybe, Matthews is good because he’s got the pedigree? His dad, his uncle, hell, even his brother is in the NFL. Or is it just the supposed HGH use making him great?

Nevermind, Vikings fans, I already know your answer.

Maybe it was important to them to keep fighting it because they didn’t do anything wrong.

It happened so long ago that maybe people have forgotten the details:

The supplement these guys took contained a banned substance that didn’t appear in the list of ingredients. The NFL knew the supplement contained the banned substance, but the players did not.

The league did not tell players around the league what they knew about Starcaps, but admitted after these guys tested positive that they knew it contained the banned substance.

These guys had a case, and did what they thought was right. I’m sure it occurred to them (or at least their agents) that they would be making more money now than they were three years ago, but they obviously decided it was a fight worth fighting.

Good for them.

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Yeah, good for them. I mean, it’s not like only 5 players out of several hundreds tested positive for something the NFL didn’t let anyone know was banned, right?

Yeah, good luck arguing that case and winning.

The upside would have been no suspension at all. Surely, if they want to take a chance on getting the upside, they have to risk a downside.

Holy God, are you that much of an Fing idiot? Or are you just an A-hole? Nobody has ever accused him of doing steroids! If you dont know the facts of the case, just stay away from the adult conversations!

Best post of the day!

All the fine money goes to charity so stop whining, and think about who that money may help…Big babies.
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So they get their money back?

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I would play football for free. Unfortunately, Mr. Williams, the rest of us have to go to real jobs, where we get paid slightly above free.

So…when does Clay Matthews start HIS suspension for HGH use? Oh, thats right…the hypocrisy of the NFL rears its ugly head again!

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I suppose we might wait until Matthews actually uses HGH and there is proof of it. Last I checked, this is still America.

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It’s great that it goes to charity, but if you are the person they are taking money from forcefully and you believe they are doing it for the wrong reason, you would be upset too. It is possible to be mad that they are taking you money but still have the “at least it goes to charity” attitude. It is possible that not all the players involved with this punishment knew what they were taking. It’s also possible that they all knew. Unless somebody is going to admit they knowingly took, there is no way to prove one way or the other.

That’s it! ONLY do steroids when you are about to retire!