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March 29, 2005
Punting Under the Influence: 60 Minutes Wednesday will report that three members of the Carolina Panthers had steroid prescriptions filled shortly before the team's 2004 trip to the Super Bowl, including punter Todd Sauerbrun.
This would explain Sourbumms habit of calling out other team's kickers. Roid rage...it is alive and well in the NFL's kicking fraternity.
posted by stofer71 at 06:06 PM on March 29, 2005
What good does a punter doing steroids do? Three things: Greater strength, faster healing from muscle stress, and a better testicular drag coefficient.
posted by rcade at 07:12 PM on March 29, 2005
Wow according to most medial the NFL is supposed to have steroids under firm control!
posted by daddisamm at 12:01 AM on March 30, 2005
That Conti dude who claims he personally doped athletes such as Marion Jones, is on record saying that beating the steriods tests is like "taking candy from a baby." I think that these testing policies/procedures are just a smoke-screen so that the general public will believe that the problem has been taken care of. I doubt that the leage officials, MLB or NFL, really even care if steroids are truly gone from the game. All they want is the most exciting game possible which will generate the greatest revenues. They just want to make this public-relations mess go away, so they'll install flimsy testing policies to make us all feel better.
posted by mayerkyl at 07:01 AM on March 30, 2005
Its kind of funny, most of the media seems to be pretty kind to the NFL--They seem to be justifying what is happening. If this was MLB-everybody would be going under the bus...
posted by daddisamm at 10:46 AM on March 30, 2005
The funny thing is that everyone wants to act like Baseball is evil because they weren't testing, when things like this show that even if they had Football's rigid testing program, Barry Bonds would still look like Hulk Hogan. Can we get the camera wider so you can see the pain you're causing my family??
posted by LostInDaJungle at 11:10 AM on March 30, 2005
What good does a punter doing steroids do? I wouldn't be surprised if I find out that players in the NFL do steroids, even up to the big game. It is probably not a large number (most do legal supplements I'm sure though). I don't think you can entirely remove it. I would hope that there is an investigation into this occurence, at least.