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May 24, 2009, 01:21 AM
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You have to be kidding me, right??????
I am not one for drugs, or players using illegal drugs. The law suit in question was about 5 players. Three of the players are from the New Orleans Saints and the two from the Minnesota Vikings. I do understand the zero tolerance the NFL has about this. I was reading up on a news web site about this. The substance in question was not on ???DO NOT USE LIST???.

I had copied and pasted the below passage from the link below.

???Attorneys for the players' union argued that league officials knew a supplement called StarCaps contained a banned diuretic back in 2006 and did not specifically notify players or the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
But the judge agreed with the NFL that players are responsible for what is in their bodies.
The judge's ruling pleased the NFL.???

http://www.wwltv.com/sports/saints/stories/wwl052309tpsus pensions.bb017aa.html

Now, the million dollar question is if this supplement wasn???t on the list why would they the suspend these players. Think about this, if these players would have won this law suit it would have opened the door for everyone else who is using something.
There is no way you can tell me that this judge was not approached by the NFL. If not, two to one when it came up to selecting a judge, a judge that would or could help the NFL was selected.

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May 25, 2009  11:12 PM ET
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You really have no idea what you're talking about whatsoever.

There are particulars banned (HGH, steriods etc). Then there is a list of compounds with a definitely contains banned substances attached to each of those things. Could be a mug of cocoa or a syringe, it's just a list of some things that are confirmed to have illegal things in it.

Now this is the part you're completely ignoring/have no idea about, the players are instructed that beyond the list there are many things that have not been tested definitively or at all. If the player thinks that their pancakes may have a banned substance in them they may bring said pancakes in to the team facility and it will be tested for free and OKed or called foul. This is incredibly important because the NFL is giving the players every possible way of preventing any of this merely by testing their supplements. This is not a situation where red tape, confusion, or collusion screwed players. This is a case where a simple, clear, idiot proof system was ignored because the players chose to ignore it. This is not the NFL's fault. The contract is clear, every single player in the league knows what the deal is.

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