Comments on: Tony Casillas: 1990s Cowboys used medicine meant for horses

By: bluebongzilla

bluebongzilla — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 05:40:48 +0000

OK, so not illegal to use it, and not banned by the NFL. Where’s the story?

By: baronvonmonocle

baronvonmonocle — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 02:25:13 +0000

redrew says:Feb 7, 2013 11:24 AM

Don’t forget the great Niners subverted the salary cap throughout their run
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You mean the salary cap that didn’t start until the year they won their last Super Bowl?

By: William Rogers

William Rogers — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:33:59 +0000

Heck I was using this stuff in the 80′s. I played a lot of baseball and my throwing arm would get so that I could not brush my teeth or comb my hair. Did wonders for me. Thanks to this article, I will be starting to use it a again…on my other shoulder. I kinda forgot about it after all this time. Nothing illegal or improper about it as far as I am concerned. I am headed to Orschelns after work tonight for the cream.

By: yousuxxors

yousuxxors — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:19:37 +0000

DMSO is used as a solvent in chem to

By: ezwriter69

ezwriter69 — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 21:59:41 +0000

One other interesting side effect of DMSO, it will transport dyes, inks, etc. from your socks or uniform or sweatpants and deposit them nicely deep into your tissues… made for some very interesting looking legs, back in the day…

By: bartlettruss

bartlettruss — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 19:24:27 +0000

A lot of people use DMSO. It’s very effective as a topical pain reliever. It’s not a steroid and it’s not addictive and it wasn’t on the list of banned substances. They may have had to get it from a vet then. I’ll take his word for it, but you can buy it on Amazon now and in a lot of other places.

By: vilelabyrinth

vilelabyrinth — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:53:54 +0000

no matter what sport, what era..they all use something/anything to get an advantage..if they want to do damage to themselves in the long run why does it matter? it’s just a game after all

By: surfinbird1

surfinbird1 — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:43:04 +0000

Oh boy! Horsegate.

By: eaglesfan94

eaglesfan94 — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:42:05 +0000

I don’t know anything about DMSO, so I don’t know if I should even comment… but I would say this probably shouldn’t be a surprise. I’d say that just about every team uses stuff that is illegal/banned.

By: vikingsvoice

vikingsvoice — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:25:33 +0000

DMSO is used on horses to treat collack and primarily helps absorption of whatever medicine they use. I’m guessing the DMSO the players were using was mixed with some steroid and Casillas just wasn’t/isn’t aware of it.

It’s also used in freezing media for long term cell cryo-storage in labs.

By: cpapfs

cpapfs — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:52:45 +0000

Non issue. I use DMSO. I am 60 and run marathons. I use it periodically on my legs when they are sore.

One of the main reasons it is not approved for human use is that you can’t patent it because it has been around for 100 years. It is also cheap. So there is no economic incentive for the drug companies to go through the approval process.

I buy it at a feed store. They tell me that most of their sales are to runners and cyclists.

Not a big deal.

By: sportsnut101

sportsnut101 — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:51:48 +0000

all those chambers that make u heel faster does that mean u cheated to the stuff people say is so dumb every player cheated when they ripped off their boss for these crazy salaries

By: cowboylover

cowboylover — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:51:15 +0000

DMSO was NOT a banned substance, so the Cowboys weren’t cheating. It was probably used on most every team back then. It is not a performance enhancer, so there is no tainting of super bowl wins–by the Cowboys or any other team that used it.

By: shlort

shlort — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:47:28 +0000

Oh, and it is not a performance enhancing drug. it is more like some asprin cream except it has anti-inflamatory properties. More like a liquid Ibuprofen, but concetrated. It isnt like you can slather on some DMSO and go run the Boston Marathon or make the olympic team.

By: queensnyvegas

queensnyvegas — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:46:49 +0000

e smith used this in 1993 last game of the season vs the giants giants r in my eyes 1993 nfc east champs

By: hrmlss

hrmlss — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:45:42 +0000

DMSO is a solvent that readily travels thru the skin into the bloodstream taking whatever chemical you add to it along also. Add ibuprofen, poof thru the skin to the spot. Add a steroid, poof thru the skin to the spot. Have dirt or staph on your skin poof to that spot. It may explain the number of staph infections and other boils these guys get. Plus it causes eye, liver and kidney problems. And when you get it on your skin you immediately get the sensation of tasting garlic in your mouth.

By: shlort

shlort — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:44:04 +0000

DMSO is a by-product of paper production. The first idea of it having a medical use was because workers who had their hands in it found relief from arthritic pain.

It was studied a bit from there, but the FDA couldnt find a way to make it cost 500 bucks a bottle and decided there was no profit to be made by corporate medicine makers.

Anyone can buy DMSO. It is available without any sort of prescription. It is commonly used as a horse liniment, but doctors prescribe it to people for a number of ailments. I have a bottle of roll-on in my house at all times for occasional use on muscle strains and the like. It works. That is all I can say about it.

By: 1509lucky

1509lucky — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:40:52 +0000

No ones titles are tainted. The fact of the matter is SCIENCE makes new strides everyday.if the technology that is around today was available 50 years ago,those players would have used it as well! If Gayle Sayers had the same quality of care Adrian Peterson had today ,his numbers would have been phenomenal. Lets stop with the all the fake outrage over so called performance enhancers.

By: nou04

nou04 — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:40:07 +0000

When I first read the headlines, I said, oh boy, something else. But this is nothing! This is someone looking to make a name for himself and to create a story cause not much is going on. DMSO doesn’t require a prescription from a vet (I don’t know if it did back then). I have used it on my back pain. My mother in law uses it all the time for arthritis pain. It isn’t some miracle freak of nature cure for anything. It is just ointment for pain and inflammation, nothing illegal about it. Get a life to whoever put this out as a “story”.

By: duncanthecat

duncanthecat — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:36:10 +0000

As a ball boy now I understand why when the Cowboy games started to go bad, I would here WILBER throughout the sideline…

By: joebone

joebone — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:31:50 +0000

Did John Elway use it? That would explain a lot.

By: boogerhut

boogerhut — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:27:30 +0000

It’s also used as a transport for other drugs. As mentioned, it absorbs straight through the skin into the blood. When mixed with other chemicals such as steroids it carries them almost immediately to the bloodstream, almost as fast as injection.

By: pleazenufalready

pleazenufalready — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:21:46 +0000

This stuff is the equivalent of super-duper-strength BenGay……and works extremely fast. I used to play 1st base on a softball team, where the pitcher used this stuff by the gallon. By the end of the 3rd or 4th inning, my bare hand would be numb from the residue left on the ball!

By: truman1941

truman1941 — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:12:41 +0000

DMSO is available in many states in the liquid form. It was first used (I was among the test group) in 1965. It has fought the FDA for decads for over-the-counter approval. Its a great anti-arthritic medicine, that includes no steroids, or PED’s. It is readilly available in pill form, under several names. Who ever started the issue has some personal vendetta, not based on medical data. Got a problem with your shoulder, rub it on some other part of your body, and it will go into the blood stream, and help the healing process. No one has every complained about Ben-Gay, why start on this product. For more info check out Dr. Stanley Jacob, U of Ore medical school. He’s the one that has done all the Medical research on DMSO. It has helped Millions of us, in and out of the athletic field.

By: bigharold

bigharold — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:07:54 +0000

This would explain why when players for Dallas of that era are asked how many titles the Cowboy’s won in the 90s they stomp their right foot three times before say three.

You can’t make this crap up!

By: riverhorsey

riverhorsey — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:47:39 +0000

I heard about it back in the 80′s and bought it somewhere other than from a vet, I don’t recall where.

I had a terrible aching joint from an injury and I felt the relief right away. I really couldn’t believe how well it worked.

After several days I didn’t need it anymore but it sure as hell worked.

By: foothillfrank

foothillfrank — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:46:21 +0000

Once again this reveals problem with media that does not guard the public against BS from people looking to promote something for themselves. Similar to Antlergate, this is a ploy for publicity for Cassillas desire to promote health center (his business?). Worse, DMSO is a non story. It has been around since the 60s. I believe back then it was a story because a janitor found benefits from a cleaning solvent and DMSO was born and was soon used by college, pro and even amateur athletes. It was ubiquitous. Hardly news by 90s, but funny Cassillas didn’t know what it was. This isn’t even dog bites man news. It is a sleeping dog. Let it be. Find real news

By: CowboyErik

CowboyErik — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:43:41 +0000

I use somthing with a horse on it from Tractor Supply Store! Great for ShinSplints!

By: fissels

fissels — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:37:28 +0000

I remember it well. that stuff was everywhere in the 90′s

By: scrp2

scrp2 — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:37:02 +0000

After countless hours of searching the net, and utilizing every known keyword combination, the PFT IS dept finally found an image of Tony Casillas buried on page 17 of a Lycos image search.

When Florio was briefed on this, how deflating it was when he asked, “How about a picture of him standing next to a horse?”