HGH testing starts Monday...What Packers should be worried?

uffda udfa
Veteran Member Topic Starter

10 years ago

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000404929/article/nfl-will-begin-testing-for-human-growth-hormone-on-monday

This is a very interesting thing to me. There have been rumors about Clay Matthews for years. Now, we'll see if there are any legs to them once testing begins Monday.

I believe there are hundreds of NFL players using HGH in the NFL. I'm friends with a former NFL player who was in camp with KC and Oakland. He told me there wasn't a single guy in the NFL not using something. He got into steroids because it was rampant in the locker room. Guys speak about it freely according to him.

Sadly, the NFL is a league of who cheats the best. Who is likely from Green Bay or anywhere to be caught?

Ted Thompson sits on his hands per former GM: "because they’ve had 25 fricking years of great quarterbacks. Of course it works. Try it without a special quarterback."

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DarkaneRules
Veteran Member

10 years ago

Oh man this will be something, but I am not about to speculate. I wonder how many players in the league are on it. This is exciting for the wrong reasons.

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Smokey
Veteran Member

10 years ago

All teams, coaches, & players should have known that HGH testing was coming. They have been talking about it for a long while now. I am interested to see who is going to be dumb enough to get caught. It's going to be another circus .:-"

musccy
Veteran Member

10 years ago

I always assumed CM3 due to his USC connection. Jared abbrederis is about the only player I'd be surprised to learn is taking hgh.

gotarace
Senior Member

10 years ago

The article doesn't include the penelties for testing positive. This policy could turn into a Ryan Braun circus in a hurry with the lawyers top payed NFL players can afford.

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nerdmann
Premier Member

10 years ago

The way Hawk has been tackling the last couple weeks made me wonder, just a little.

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uffda udfa
Veteran Member Topic Starter

10 years ago

They're only going to test 5 guys a week from 8 teams. Interesting. I would guess these are random players not just ones suspected.

In doing some cursory research it appears HGH is out of the blood within hours. Not sure that's the case, but it's what I read making HGH testing a waste of time.

Taking blood from a player vs. urine is a big deal though. Should be very interesting to see what the blood net catches when it's cast tomorrow.

Ted Thompson sits on his hands per former GM: "because they’ve had 25 fricking years of great quarterbacks. Of course it works. Try it without a special quarterback."

buckeyepackfan
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10 years ago

The way Hawk has been tackling the last couple weeks made me wonder, just a little.

Originally Posted by: nerdmann

http://espn.go.com/blog/green-bay-packers/post/_/id/13902/packers-a-j-hawk-welcomes-hgh-testing

You can quit worrying about Hawk.

[grin1] [grin1]

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nerdmann
Premier Member

10 years ago

http://espn.go.com/blog/green-bay-packers/post/_/id/13902/packers-a-j-hawk-welcomes-hgh-testing

You can quit worrying about Hawk.

[grin1] [grin1]

Originally Posted by: buckeyepackfan

That's a scene right out of Crime and Punishment.

“Winning is not a sometime thing, it is an all the time thing. You don't do things right once in a while…you do them right all the time.”

PackFanWithTwins
Veteran Member

10 years ago

#10

Drug testing in pro-sports is a joke anyway. The threasholds are high enough and players have been at it long enough to know how much they can take while staying under that threashold. Players fail test because they messed up their dosage, not because they decided to start juicing.

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