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November 19, 2002
In An Effort To Keep
In An Effort To Keep Football Players. . . Off of banned substances, the NFL is seeking to designate a single source for all dietary supplements. The aim: to find one company that is willing to certify that the supplements it produces don't contain any substance banned by the NFL. In a piece that just moved on the AP wire, Gene Upshaw, head of the NFL Players Association, explained it this way: Upshaw said a better analogy would be the case of Kansas City linebacker Lew Bush, suspended for four games two weeks ago for taking a banned substance. Upshaw said Bush took the same supplement twice -- the first time it did not contain any of the substances on the NFL's illegal list; the second time it did, and that's when he tested positive. At first blush, you'd think that this is a good idea. Unfortunately, as I've noted here before, legions of doctors and scientists regularly testify that there isn't a dietary supplement on earth that delivers anything nutritionally that normal food can't. In the world of international sports, Dick Pound, head of the World Anti-Doping Agency, also notes that it's common knowledge that supplements are regularly contaminated with with steroids. In other words, what we have here is lots of motion, essentially signifying nothing.
Eric
11:59 PM
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