HGH testing part of new CBA, Testing this season

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Pack93z
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13 years ago

About damn time.. level off the playing field so to speak. =d>

The players and league want to get a grasp on injuries.. one way is too slow down the growth and speed of the athletes.. this will only help in that effort by leading the way.. soon it may trickle down in the sport.

HGH testing part of new CBA; testing expected to begin this season
Posted by Gregg Rosenthal on August 4, 2011, 3:55 PM EDT
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The announcement regarding the official ratification of the CBA should come any minute.

That CBA will include a major victory for the league: blood testing of HGH for NFL players. Judy Battista of the New York Times reports HGH testing is in the agreement. There will be random, annual testing. The goal is for testing to start at the beginning of the season.

It’s a great victory for the league, but ultimately drug testing is more about public relations than anything else. The drug makers are always way ahead of the drug testers, and HGH is relatively old news in the performance enhancement field for top athletes.

Still, the NFL deserves kudos for being the first U.S. league to institute the testing. Getting the union to agree to blood testing will make it a lot easier to test for any substance in the future.

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Zero2Cool
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13 years ago

I wonder how many of the retired players who are suffering ... wonder how many of them took some kind of supplements.

zombieslayer
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13 years ago

I have heard arguments that HGH doesn't have the side effects of steroids. HGH testing is also harder to conduct as it has to be completely random because it's much harder to detect than steroids.

Two problems with HGH:
1) morality. You have to get it from cadavers.
2) It of course gives an unfair advantage over those who don't do it.

HGH also can make you taller. Not going to mention any names, but there were quite a few players in the NFL who got taller in their careers which I find kind of odd as most of us stop growing by 21.

By the way, the way they'll be doing the testing, it won't work. Nobody will be caught except for the absolute idiots.

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