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NFL exec: Union stalling H.G.H. testing
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07:32 AM ET 02.22 | Adolpho Birch, the N.F.L.'s senior vice president for law and labor policy, suggested Thursday that the players union was holding up an agreement to begin testing for human growth hormone because it was unhappy with other aspects of the 18-month-old collective bargaining agreement, including the commissioner's authority in disciplinary matters. "I do think there is an effort to go back and revisit a lot of things that were agreed to, negotiated on extensively and agreed to," Birch said. Later, he added: "It has been a stall. I don't know if it's a tactic. There is absolutely no reason for this to have taken this long and us not have testing implemented. We should have been more than a year into this by now." The union and the league agreed to start testing for H.G.H. when the collective bargaining agreement was completed in August 2011. But since then, the sides have been unable to agree on a number of issues, and testing has not begun. In the meantime, Major League Baseball has announced that it will begin testing for H.G.H.
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Seeing people taking steroids drives me crazy. I could just snap and hurt someone. Where's my horse tranquilizer?
Wawa-we-wa
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Jim Harbaugh took it.
Debbie Does
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I should have known. Even though, when I asked him, he said, "Neigh."
Wawa-we-wa
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They need to put HGH testing in place to make sure the players are only taking the highest quality Human Growth Hormone.
Debbie Does
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They shouldn't negotiate anything until they get competent people to do it. I think PeeWee Herman negotiated the CBA for them.
SteveDallas
Amarillo, TX
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Those drug tests aren't accurate.
drip drop
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Just turn your head
I'm so sick of testing. Let's just end testing in all sports and let it be a big free-for-all. It would be more exciting. Reset all of the records and start from scratch.
RustyBawl
Baltimore, MD
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Pee Wee Herman was on drugs?
Debbie Does
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I vote for leaving HGH in. I'd kind of like to see a 500 pound quarterback.
Jakester
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JaWalrus Russell was getting there.
Debbie Does
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look how well testing worked in cycling....they eventually got it right....
Mangler.
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But if they really got it right they'd suspend just about every cyclist on the circuit.
DJ Johnson
Twin Peaks, WA
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So there's still hope for him after all?
Melman
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All the NFLPA was worried about was players getting their game checks. Union dues don't grow on trees.
Melman
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Yeah, but at the first sign of HGH causing some sort of debilitating illness, there'd be players suing the league for not making them aware of the dangers of using HGH to begin with, or some similar nonsense.
Melman
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They will do something once a current player fatally hurts himself! Stupid!
Not4Nutten
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Not really.
It took a bunch of snitches.
Rex Racer
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Good point Mel. It's similar to the players taking action against the league on the head injury issue while they their Sunday's trying to take each other's heads off.
Rex Racer
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good point Rex
Mangler.
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A *LOT* of NFL players are juicing. Has to be around 50%, of course they are stalling the testing of HGH, but there are now various synthetic testosterone products that leave the body in 24~48 hours which means you have to be extremely unlucky to get popped for a positive test.
And the NFL does NOT want to see big name guys getting popped which is why we don't see many, i.e. IMO they let guys know when tests are coming.
robertclemente21
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