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Hank Steinbrenner has the gumption to point fingers at the NFL in the ongoing steroids scandal. “"Everybody that knows sports knows football is tailor-made for performance-enhancing drugs. I don't know how they managed to skate by. It irritates me. Don't tell me it's not more prevalent. The number in football is at least twice as many. Look at the speed and size of those players," says a sire of the Big Stein.

 

It’s amazing to me too. Though the NFL has had some sort of steroids testing program in place since the 1990s, the fact that the average size of a NFL lineman has managed to balloon from 270 lbs. to the 330 lbs. behemoths over the past twenty years is, incredibly, viewed as no big deal (pun intended). One suspects that the football league is rampant with HGH abuse for which there is no reliable test and an unwillingness on the part of the league or players’ union to utilize it even if there was. Indeed, if professional baseball players were so easily able to score HGH, certainly football players had similar access to the performance enhancing drug.