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March 24, 2005
Haslett admits steroid use: It looks like it might be time to recall some Super Bowl rings as the Saints coach admits to using steroids as a player and calls the Steelers steroid pioneers in the NFL.
It wasn't really against the rules until '90, so... hard to blame Haslett or the Steelers. You wouldn't penalize someone for working out...
posted by tieguy at 07:55 PM on March 24, 2005
It wasn't really against the rules until '90, so... hard to blame Haslett or the Steelers. You wouldn't penalize someone for working out... Nice try, but if no one is allowed to use that excuse in baseball, they shouldn't be allowed to use it in football either. I agree with what you say, but I'm just warning you in advance that some "integrity of the sport" and "asterix-lovers" are going to go all "coo-coo for cocoa-puffs" on you for saying that.
posted by grum@work at 09:51 PM on March 24, 2005
In the big steroid debate, it is often mentioned that "it wasn't against the rules." If the steroids aren't perscribed by a doctor, their use is illegal. Why should the game have to have rules against illegal behavior?
posted by apoch at 11:01 PM on March 24, 2005
How hard is it now to get a doctor's scrip? In the '70s, faggedabudit!
posted by billsaysthis at 12:19 AM on March 25, 2005
FWIW, Wikipedia indicates that anabolic steroids were not banned under the Controlled Substances Act until 1991. I'm trying to find other references, but it's quite possible they weren't illegal when the Steelers were taking them.
posted by tieguy at 07:38 AM on March 25, 2005
They were apparently banned by the IOC in 1975, but the earliest date I can find that references them being actually illegal in the US is 1988.
posted by tieguy at 07:40 AM on March 25, 2005
How about we send some late 1960''s, early 70's players before congress to see what they know? Oh I forgot congress is on spring break.............
posted by volfire at 08:08 AM on March 25, 2005
What billsaysthis said. "...but it's quite possible they weren't illegal when the Steelers were taking them." I'll assume you mean when they were ALLEGEDLY taking them because as near as I can tell there is ONE (Haslett) person saying it happened and at least one (Rooney) saying it didn't. Put the pitchfork down.
posted by scully at 09:48 AM on March 25, 2005
WHERE'S JOSE WHEN YOU NEED HIM?
posted by volfire at 10:12 AM on March 25, 2005
How hard is it now to get a doctor's scrip? In the '70s, faggedabudit! True...and the sad fact is that it isn't that hard to get an illegal perscription (for many drugs) today. I'll assume you mean when they were ALLEGEDLY taking them because as near as I can tell there is ONE (Haslett) person saying it happened and at least one (Rooney) saying it didn't. Haslett's comments are hardly the first to indite Steelers players of the period of steroid use. You are right to use the word ALLEGEDLY but you can't possibly believe that steroid use in the 70's and 80's wasn't prevelant in the NFL (see: Alzado, Lyle)
posted by stofer71 at 11:17 AM on March 25, 2005
I'm shocked. Steriods in football? Wake the President...