AFC NORTH 2017 draft

[XenoMorph]

(05-24-2017, 02:22 PM)JS-Steelerfan Wrote: Steroids weren't legislated out of the NFL until 1983.  And they were not even declared a controlled substance by law until 1990.

So call it shady, a shortcut, or whatever, but it is NOT cheating to do something that is isn't at the time declared to be illegal.

The fact you root for a team where you know they cheated is kinda sad.

[BFritz21]

(05-24-2017, 02:22 PM)JS-Steelerfan Wrote: Steroids weren't legislated out of the NFL until 1983.  And they were not even declared a controlled substance by law until 1990.

So call it shady, a shortcut, or whatever, but it is NOT cheating to do something that is isn't at the time declared to be illegal.

I'm sure when their balls started shrinking, they became impotent, had low sperm counts, and they started having mood swings so bad they probably beat their wives worse than Ike Turner, they didn't link that to steroids or think of it as a problem!

The bottom line for the Steelers is winning, which is obvious by them keeping a rapist as a QB!

(05-25-2017, 06:18 PM)XenoMorph Wrote: The fact you root for a team where you know they cheated is kinda sad.

Quote:"It started, really, in Pittsburgh," Haslett said. "They got an advantage on a lot of football teams. They were so much stronger [in the] '70s, late '70s, early '80s. They're the ones who kind of started it."

It kills their superiority claims when they won Super Bowls because they had a competitive advantage!

Ask a Steelers' fan, though, and it wasn't an advantage because they weren't illegal!

[GMDino]

(05-30-2017, 12:01 AM)BFritz21 Wrote: I'm sure when their balls started shrinking, they became impotent, had low sperm counts, and they started having mood swings so bad they probably beat their wives worse than Ike Turner, they didn't link that to steroids or think of it as a problem!

The bottom line for the Steelers is winning, which is obvious by them keeping a rapist as a QB!



It kills their superiority claims when they won Super Bowls because they had a competitive advantage!

Ask a Steelers' fan, though, and it wasn't an advantage because they weren't illegal!

http://www.espn.com/nfl/news/story?id=2020408

Quote:Haslett apologizes for implicating Steelers

Mar 24, 2005



NEW ORLEANS -- New Orleans Saints coach Jim Haslett
apologized to the Pittsburgh Steelers on Thursday for saying that team's use of steroids during its Super Bowl championship seasons
in the 1970s popularized the drug in the NFL.

"I have a lot of respect for that team, that organization and
Mr. (Dan) Rooney," Haslett said. "That's just what we believed
when I played. And, later, one of their players admitted using
steroids. But I didn't mean to cause them any harm."

The admission by Steve Courson, a part-time starter on
Pittsburgh's last Super Bowl title team in 1979, was one reason
Haslett felt rumors about the Steelers' steroid use were true.

Courson has blamed a heart condition on steroid use. Courson
also said that teammates such as Jack Ham and Jack Lambert
adamantly refused to use them.

Steelers owner Dan Rooney, who ran the team during the 1970s,
denied the Steelers pioneered steroid use in the NFL.

"This is totally false when he says it started with the
Steelers in the '70s," Rooney told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

"(Then-coach) Chuck Noll was totally against it. He looked into
it, examined it, talked to people. Haslett, maybe it affected his
mind."

Haslett who played in Buffalo from 1979 to 1985, and finished
his career in 1987 with the New York Jets, admitted Wednesday that
he experimented with steroids, believing he needed them to keep up
with the many players he felt used them. The acknowledgment and his
comments about the Steelers came in Hawaii, where he had been
attending NFL meetings.

"It wasn't against the rules in those days, it wasn't
illegal," said Haslett, who estimated that half of the NFL players
when he was in the league, and all the linemen, took steroids.

The NFL banned their use and began testing for steroids in 1987,
but players weren't suspended for using them until 1989. The league
started using random, year-round drug testing in 1990.

Haslett said he talked about steroid use in his day to point out
how far the NFL had come, not to cast aspersions on anyone.

"I have a lot of respect for this league, but it's naive to
think people weren't using enhancing drugs before they were
illegal," Haslett said. "The difference is that the NFL
recognized that steroids would hurt the league and took steps to
stop their use. That's what I was trying to show."

Haslett had already bulked up from his 160-pound high school
weight by the time he left college. He did that strictly through
working out, he said.

It was after he was drafted by the Bills in 1979 that he used
steroids, thinking they would help him stay competitive.

"If you didn't you weren't as strong as everybody else, you
weren't as fast as everybody else," Haslett said. "That's the
only reason to do it. Everybody's looking for a competitive edge."

But the drug did not help as much as he expected, Haslett said
on Thursday, and he quit using it.

"You still had to do all the work, eat right, lift weights,"
Haslett said. "I didn't think it did much for me."

And Haslett did not like the side effects, saying steroids made
him hyper and left him bloated.

"I'm a proponent of the NFL policies and what we've done in
this area," Haslett said. "I was just trying to explain the
differences between the old days and now."