What you SAY is true..what you IMPLY is false. Yes they were (likely) all on roids, BUT it wasn’t against the rules at the time so they weren’t “cheating”.

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I like the way you try to imply the NFL is at fault in this as much as the NFLPA. The NFLPA is the only one stonewalling, the NFL is not trying to delay this but implying this isn’t 100% the players fault is your way of supporting the players.

If they weren’t doping…they wouldn’t care. Leads me to believe it MUCH more widespread than they wants us to know.

The only result of trying to avoid HGH testing is to lose any support the Union may have had and any leverage in future disputes (and there will be some) over issues not clearly dealt with in the CBA.

If the NFLPA doesn’t like what it agreed to, it should fire its leaders.

Palmiero was being accused with cause. Sitton wasn’t being accused. He was being interviewed along with several other players about drug testing.

Sometimes they’re just better players on a better team.

The fans will get crazy off the chart performances and the union won’t have any old players to worry about and northern will the NFL.

Josh Sitton: “Guys want testing; we want it to be fair. I don’t want to be going against a guy that’s 330 pounds that runs a 4.7 because he’s on steroids or something.”

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I seem to remember Raphael Palmeiro stating emphatically that he didn’t use steroids. No one is admitting to it unless they get caught.

Juice is steroids. The league already tests for steroids aggressively in and out of season and there’s little chance a player won’t get caught if he juices.

Nobody has a clue about how many players use HGH or even what its effects really are. There’s no real agreement about either of those.

Since the Rooneys run the league we wont see any testing anytime soon.

The “Steel Cutain” was the juice curtain and Chuck Knoll knows all about it.

De Smith will only allow his players be deposed through Twitter, that way they can say someone else hacked/controlled their account, and likewise be able to deny perjury.

Josh Sitton: “Guys want testing; we want it to be fair. I don’t want to be going against a guy that’s 330 pounds that runs a 4.7 because he’s on steroids or something.”

The reason that this is a stupid tactic is that once implemented it could be onerous if it is mandated by the government. The NFLPA needs to address this issue in a serious manner.

If this is any indication of the manner in which the NFLPA negotiates, it is no longer a wonder why the lockout took so long to conclude. DeMaurice Smith is a jackass.

Start testing and if the players don’t like it play somewhere else. It is for their own safety. I guarantee we start to see less concussions the moment they start the testing.

“Catlin, best known as the scientist who identified the designer steroid THG, says WADA is notoriously reluctant to share its data about blood screening for HGH.

“I’d like to look at the data, but WADA doesn’t disclose its information so an independent scientist can review it,” said Catlin, the founder of the UCLA Olympic Analytical Laboratory, the first anti-doping lab in the United States.

WADA has not shared information with other anti-doping researchers about the rate of false positives and false negatives since it began testing athletes’ blood for HGH, said Catlin, now the chief executive officer of Anti-Doping Research, a Los Angeles nonprofit organization, making it hard to determine how effective the test really is.

“Every test will have false positives,” Catlin said. “The question is, what percentage can a sport stand? ”

http://www.sportsbusinessnews.com/_news/news_424210.php

Just because Smith is playing games with the issue doesn’t mean there aren’t real scientific concerns with WADA’s HGH test.

There’s something fishy going on. Why won’t WADA give them the data whether or not most think it’s useless?