New York Yankees’ VP Hank Steinbrenner wants everyone to stop picking on baseball for their steroid problems, and take a look at their football counterparts.
“I don’t like baseball being singled out,” the New York Yankees senior vice president said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press on Monday night.
“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.”
1. The NFL has had a drug-testing program in place for years.
2. They actually enforce it.
Hanky might be right that some football players are beating the system, but there’s no way in hell the NFL has a bigger issue on its hands than MLB. For over a decade, Bud Selig and MLB owners have looked the other way while players juiced. They cared more about getting fans back to the ballpark after the ’94 strike and thus, lining their pockets again with money, than the integrity of the game.
If the NFL does have a steroid issue, I trust Roger Goodell would try to make the situation right, as opposed to the Slug, who only when the problem got out of control did anything to fix it.
