Oops ! Sorry … We weren’t discussing “business” …

That’s 16 pounds a year or greater than a pound per month from birth!

These guys have been using from early high school, and I wouldn’t be surprised if not before that. M1T is as cheap as tic tacs! If Congress and the NFL is really serious, start at the beginning, high school testing and up to the NFL.

Have you ever personally benefited from lobbyists?

Are members of congress totally overpaid & why should they get paid when nothing is accomplished?

Why does congress contiually rip off american taxpayer will all of its salaries & benefits, if you work for the people you should be treated like the people and pay into social security and medicare instead of your own private congressional health care plan & retirement fund.

When was the last time you actually accomplished something positive that the people elected you to do

Why do we continously help every other place in the world (which is a very nice deed) when we have one of the worst homeless rates in the world, an education system that is turning into a joke compared to rest of world, New Orleans still needs help, 40% of population cannot afford health care, & our economy & deficit is a complete shambles.

Seriously, congress you DO have more important things, out with the old, in with the new (except teabagges)

Priceless. Sounds like fox news
But sorry, let’s stay with what we love. And thats football

That way we can all be sure the performance of both groups remain unaffected by outside agencies!!!

It only applies to those who are citizens of the Untited States and those who are not trying to wage war against it or otherwise harm the population of it.

might wanna tell that the people who run guantanamo…
hypocrite

Dear Congress,

Bug off until you have done your main job. Go and fix the economy. Then, and only maybe then, we’ll cut you idiots the latitude to start giving two poops about sports.

DammmJackwagons

This is why Ron Paul (a libertarian) is everyone’s friend!!

In this here United States of America, one does not have to prove themselves innocent of a crime. One does not have to self-incriminate. And one sure as all get out does not have to submit to handing over blood samples, which is a gross invasion of privacy.

For those who throw out the boring “if the players have nothing to hide they should submit to any and all testing”, please read and comprehend the above paragraph.
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I love irony.

Maybe you should comprehend the implications of your own paragraph first.

Well, yes, this IS the United States of America, thanks for the reminder. But you’re proving the case against yourself. BECAUSE it is the US of A, a private company (as in, oh, let’s just use the NFL for example) can *absolutely* require it’s employees to submit to drug testing.

End of story.

If the players think that’s an invasion of their privacy, they are free to apply at their local Wal-Mart or McDonald’s. See how that works? It really is a free country. It’s not as if players are being forced to submit blood tests to be citizens of the country. They are being asked to authenticate the veracity of their performances by not only those that own the game, but their own representatives in the union (assuming of course that they come to agreement).

12-year old girls seeking admission to the Olympics submit to blood tests. Why can’t full grown adults? This is a relatively small hoop for them to jump through in order to maintain their blessed, lucky, fortunate, lavish, and privileged lives. Hell, I’ve had to pee in a cup for the last four jobs I’ve had. If I felt it was unreasonable, I could have walked away.

I see no problem with the HGH testing. Not thrilled that Congress is involved, but let’s not fool ourselves into believing that 2 of the 535 members of Congress is really anything to get all that worked up about.

“Look over there at the NFL, for the kids, because we can’t figure out how to do anything else”.

Sorry. Perhaps too cynical.