The emergence of steroids and other performing enhancing drugs in sports has prompted the National Football League to congregate, decide and implement measures that will save their asses in the future. Translation: no one wants to be correlated with MLB commissioner Bud Selig…ever. So the NFL has decided to start moving forward and begin testing, when adequate testing procedures become available, for Human Growth Hormone. But for now, football players can still keep using because science hasn’t caught up to the cheaters. Yet, the NFL wants to ensure their players that all they’ll eventually need is a bottle of pee, instead of the more viable and conclusive blood samples.

“Until a test is developed for HGH, there’s really not an awful lot to talk about. And when that test is developed, we really believe it should be a urine test. No one is interested in a blood test. We got a lot of big tough guys, but they don’t even like to be pricked on the finger to give blood.”

We’re not pointing any fingers, but we’d check this guy first. As far as the blood tests: we’re not talking about sissies here. And it’s relatively easy to get a blood sample from a football players. Just take a swab to any nose bleed, cut elbow or mangled upper lip and you’ve got it.

NFLPA to accept HGH testing [SI]
Image [Profootballtalk]