http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=klosterman/070319&sportCat=nfl&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab4pos3

The leaked names are all over the place (as perhaps they well should be, I dunno) but the story about the Steeler’s physician seemingly has been dropped and forgotten, it’s no longer even listed as a news story on ESPN’s NFL index.

oh my, I’m getting bothered by all this meat commentary.

anyways, the point is – STEROIDS are for losers and cheats. Ban them for a YEAR if they get caught, and for life if they get caught again. Simple isn’t it?

Even though there is not hard evidence that McGwire took steroids, or some other form of PEDs, it seems pretty obvious that he did so at some point in his career. Same with Sosa. Many people point to their bodies as all the evidence they need. Well, based on their body types, what position do you think guys like McGwire, Bonds, Sosa, Giambi or Shefield would play if they were football players. Bonds would probably be a linebacker, maybe, or a perhaps a safety? These guys are fairly pedestrian for the NFL.

It seems fairly obvious that many NFL players are using some kind of PEDs, and surely have been despite the perception of their stringent testing. But where is the investigative reporting? Where is the constant questioning of legitimacy on sports talk radio? Why was the “Wizzinator” just a joke and not something investigated a bit more?

I know that the NFL supposedly went through it’s steriod clensing sometime in the 80′s right? I believe the double standard applies because of the preception that the NFL cleaned up thier act while MLB, very wrongly, dragged their feet, while ironically considering steriods to just be “a football problem”.

I honestly can put my finger on why there seems to be this double standard. I say “seems” because I honestly don’t know if it’s true. I wish it didn’t bother me. I wish I could still love football on equal terms with baseball. But the hipocracy of people putting down baseball at every turn while embracing football and all it “goodness” – despite it’s far more serious problems in actuality – annoys me to know end.

Baseball, people – besides me, view it as a more skill sport that is supposed to have integrity (unlike the bottom of a football play going for the ball).

My big question to baseball fans is – are McGwires numbers really good enough to be in the hall of fame? Most people dance around that point by stating one season – 1999. But are his numbers on the whole good? 1 out of 3 hits are home runs. Hardly any doubles, 6 triples, a good amount of stikes to balls and 583 home runs. Everyone says 500 homers gets you in but I think the question is how much does steroids add to that total?

Look I just think that sports fans in general are more comfortable with NFLers roiding. Pro football is an extremely brutal game that demands players to be big, strong, fast and pretty much insane. I mean I don’t know if it is possible to be a linebacker at this time in the NFL w/o them. I’m still going to make Merriman roids jokes b/c it is fun eventhough I know that the linebackers on my team probably share needles with him.

I’m done with this blog.

Well said. This is precisely why I read your site.

I agree that the NFL certainly handled the issue better than the MLB, and it seems like the NFL just gets a bit of a free pass because of how much everybody likes it.

The McGwire vs. Carolina Panthers comparisons, though… I mean, it was Todd Sauerbrun, Todd Steussie, and Jeff Mitchell. The three of them could paint a cock on the statue of liberty and then go on a nine-state killing spree, and it’s not going to generate as much attention as Mark McGwire crying in front of congress… because no one knows who those guys are, Mark McGwire’s the guy who “saved baseball.” A lot of good points were made about McGwire here, too. If you wanted to compare the attention given to the Panthers guys to the attention given to Guillermo Mota, however… I’d listen.

I think another issue here is that the NFL’s been better prepared to deal with the steroid scrutiny, as opposed to Major League Baseball… The NFL was dragged in front congress, just like Major League Baseball was, but Selig and Fehr both came out of there looking so bad, and so ill-prepared to do anything about steroids… and for the NFL, it was about as eventful as a traffic ticket hearing. Maybe that was another reason for the concern and outry surrounding baseball, too.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha….Chargers SUCK!!!!!!!

If it wasn’t against the rules during the glamorized “Steroid Era”, then why persecute those players now? If performance-enhancers were so wrong, why weren’t they banned at the time?