Congress - HGH - & Professional Athletics

[jiggagold]

That's a great number to work with. It's fair to say no D1 college football player is going to have the same college experience as a full-time dedicated student. Academic corners simply have to be cut.

So we've got 21,000 players competing for 250 NFL spots that open-up per year? And how many of those 250 wash out the first year?

What's a typical plan "B" for a player that doesn't make it? Janitor? Drug dealer? Future felon?

So if we're really that worried about putting all those players at risk, don't crack down on AAS -- crack down on those 5,000 people per year who get used and dumped.

Realistically I'd put the number around 3 thousand competing for those spots. You have to complete 3 years of college to be eligible for the draft.

 

[jiggagold]

But the ones who take bad steroid advice are also going to take bad advice on training, diet, finances and any other aspect of their career.

Singling-out bad decisions regarding AAS use seems capricious and arbitrary.

That is true as well, eventually they'll weed themselves out of the game, unless the AAS is what is keeping their foot in the door. Regardless of correct or incorrect administration.

Just legalize it all.

 

[redsamurai]

this post is asinine, do you just argue to argue, \

was that a rehetorical question?

 

[mrplunkey]

was that a rehetorical question?

Am I shocked that you understand the concept of a rhetorical question, even if you still can't spell it correctly?


(Yes, I am. And the above question was "rehetorical" too!)

 

[PICK3]

Am I shocked that you understand the concept of a rhetorical question, even if you still can't spell it correctly?


(Yes, I am. And the above statement was a "rehetorical" question too!)

ololololol!

 

[redsamurai]

Spinal trauma greatly accelerates degenerative spine disease. There are some things that can be done to stabilize and strengthen it, but there's a point of no return (i.e. massive herniation).

But this does bring us right back to the original argument. Professional athletes choose to put themselves at risk for a high risk/return job.

1) Adding physician-supervised hormone regimens to their existing risk profile isn't going to make it significantly worse.

2) Even if exogenous hormones are against the rules, it's up to the league to police them -- not congress.

Yes, we are back to the original argument..thanks to jigga not you. Anyway...your argument still does not hold any water whatsoever. A football player knows what he's getting into from the time he plays high school ball. There's time in the gym and time on the field, end of discussion. An environment where pro athletes have no choice but to take exogenous hormones, no matter how clinically supervised they are....you don't know what you're getting into. Long term effects of steroids is still cloudy. Regular people should be able to make those decisions for themselves but not athletes competing with each other to put food on their table. Because the Athletes WILL begin taking more hormones than their doctor is prescribing and we're back to the beginning. Athletes eat, sleep and train for a living and they get the best of all of it....they should be the ones pushing the limits of human boundaries without becoming a synthetic organism.

 

[ledhead]

Fuck Congress! God made steroids for a reason, so people like me can look great... Anyone, on this board who does not use steroids should be banned automatically!!! Congress are haters, they do not care about people one bit. When you get down to brass tacks, I assure you economics is the fundamental reason why they are on another witch-hunt to hang athletes... Steroids, when taking correctly make society better... Steroids are drugs that people put to good use unlike recreational and psych drugs that make people commit serious crimes. Moreover, those drugs make people slothful, therefore, they cannot hold a job. Steroids motivate people in every aspect of life...bottom line, end of the story...

 

[mrplunkey]

Yes, we are back to the original argument..thanks to jigga not you. Anyway...your argument still does not hold any water whatsoever. A football player knows what he's getting into from the time he plays high school ball. There's time in the gym and time on the field, end of discussion. An environment where pro athletes have no choice but to take exogenous hormones, no matter how clinically supervised they are....you don't know what you're getting into. Long term effects of steroids is still cloudy. Regular people should be able to make those decisions for themselves but not athletes competing with each other to put food on their table. Because the Athletes WILL begin taking more hormones than their doctor is prescribing and we're back to the beginning. Athletes eat, sleep and train for a living and they get the best of all of it....they should be the ones pushing the limits of human boundaries without becoming a synthetic organism.

Long-term effects of repeated blows to the head are just as bad or even worse than steroids.

Using your logic, we should also ban all forms of contact to the head because "athletes competing with each other to put food on their table" shouldn't be forced into an environment where they must accept blows to the head in order to compete.

 

[redsamurai]

Long-term effects of repeated blows to the head are just as bad or even worse than steroids.

Using your logic, we should also ban all forms of contact to the head because "athletes competing with each other to put food on their table" shouldn't be forced into an environment where they must accept blows to the head in order to compete.

and what has the NFL front office been busy with lately? Do you watch or follow football at all? I thought you did. If not my bad.

 

[redsamurai]

in any case the very nature of football is hard physical contact, and players know that from pee wee on. When children are playing pee wee are they being educated on future roid cycles? Ur still not making any sense whatsoever....what problem are you having? Where is your malfunction?