Predict teams/players that will underperform under new steroid testing program

[skinsfan69]

Why is it that when I guy looks like a body builder it's automatically assumed that he's using? Does anyone around here actually lift, train and diet on a daily basis? Cause if any of you do then you would know that you can get pretty ripped just be dieting and training hard. The media has really jaded a lot of people on steroids.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by skinsfan69

Why is it that when I guy looks like a body builder it's automatically assumed that he's using? Does anyone around here actually lift, train and diet on a daily basis? Cause if any of you do then you would know that you can get pretty ripped just be dieting and training hard. The media has really jaded a lot of people on steroids.

That's certainly a good point. These guys work out like it's a job, because it is their job. Plus they have trainers, dietitians, doctors, etc., all working closely with them.

[Redskin Jim]

Originally Posted by Mattyk

That's certainly a good point. These guys work out like it's a job, because it is their job. Plus they have trainers, dietitians, doctors, etc., all working closely with them.

This is true Matty, but let's not be foolish here. In any business people are looking for an edge. In this particular business, the NFL, it has been documented time and time again of players using p.e.d.'s. To think that we are looking at a level playing field here is the equivilant to burying our heads in the sand. Or a child who sticks their fingers in their ears because they don't want to hear the truth. I'd be interested to see how many players will start this season with a suspension due to a dirty piss test. Um Buchannon anyone...

[NC_Skins]

Originally Posted by skinsfan69

Why is it that when I guy looks like a body builder it's automatically assumed that he's using? Does anyone around here actually lift, train and diet on a daily basis? Cause if any of you do then you would know that you can get pretty ripped just be dieting and training hard. The media has really jaded a lot of people on steroids.

Originally Posted by Mattyk

That's certainly a good point. These guys work out like it's a job, because it is their job. Plus they have trainers, dietitians, doctors, etc., all working closely with them.

Working out hard, eating right will only take you so far. To get that separation between you and that next guy trying to make the team, you can rest assure guys are going to do whatever it takes to make it. Why? Because there is huge amounts of money involved.


Right now, I can tell you for 100% that one guy I know here at ECU that used roids. Guy came into ECU and just blew up. We all talked in the gym, and he even bounced for a short spell in the downtown bars (as did I). Guy was really cool, and looked more like a OLB than a punter. Ironically, I think he was scared of the contact.




Once he got into the NFL, he told a mutual friend of our that HGH use was pretty high in the league. Now, I'll take Matty Dodge's word on this since the guy was a user himself.

[tryfuhl]

Originally Posted by skinsfan69

Why is it that when I guy looks like a body builder it's automatically assumed that he's using? Does anyone around here actually lift, train and diet on a daily basis? Cause if any of you do then you would know that you can get pretty ripped just be dieting and training hard. The media has really jaded a lot of people on steroids.

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[freddyg12]

Originally Posted by skinsfan69

Why is it that when I guy looks like a body builder it's automatically assumed that he's using? Does anyone around here actually lift, train and diet on a daily basis? Cause if any of you do then you would know that you can get pretty ripped just be dieting and training hard. The media has really jaded a lot of people on steroids.

The coverage has merely increased w/the amount of real evidence, don't blame the media. Mainly in baseball & track & field, & also L. Armstrong has had to backpedal (pun intended) out of reports from former teamates that he juiced.

My dad thought in the 80s that steroid use was rampant. Ben Johnson et al that got disqualified in the olympics really brought it out, but it's taken a long time for the major leagues here to put in testing that could detect it.

[Dirtbag59]

Originally Posted by freddyg12

The coverage has merely increased w/the amount of real evidence, don't blame the media. Mainly in baseball & track & field, & also L. Armstrong has had to backpedal (pun intended) out of reports from former teamates that he juiced.

My dad thought in the 80s that steroid use was rampant. Ben Johnson et al that got disqualified in the olympics really brought it out, but it's taken a long time for the major leagues here to put in testing that could detect it.

Lance Armstrong might be able to back out though on a technicality. The alleged blood doping techniques he was accused of using haven't been proven yet. What Armstrong would be guilty of is attempting to cheat. Weather or not he succeeds depends on how successful blood doping turns out to be.