Keep Congress out of NFL’s drug policy, and drugs out of the NFL
Am I the only who finds it amusing that a Congressman criticized the National Football League because its steroids policy “is not perfect”?
When I was a young boy in the Old Country - this would have been in the early 1980’s - I heard many a stories told by former exchange students about high-school football players taking steroids. Were the stories true? I have no idea. At the time they seemed plausible since America was the Land of Excess (among a lot of other things) and taking ‘roids in high school certainly qualified as excessive in my book. One can, however, imagine many kids seeing it as not particularly excessive, with chicks and scholarships and perhaps even a pro-career beckoning.
But that was then and the more important question is of course to what extent players at all levels use various banned substances today? What’s the over under on the share of NFL players doing it? 10%? 20%? 85%? Do you care? I do, but how much do I care? At what point, if any, would I stop following following football, stop watching NFL games?
I hope I’ll never know.
