During the Collective Bargaining Agreement for the NFL and the NFLPA both sides agreed to allow testing for HGH. The test will be administered throughout the year selecting, at random, players from teams all over the NFL and conducting a blood test to check for the presence of HGH. Test are allowed to be given during the preseason, regular season, postseason, and even the offseason. Adolpho Birch, NFL Senior VP of Law and Labor Development, told the Associated Press that it is, “constant threat of testing that provides the key to deterrence under this particular program.”
We have seen the NFL try to make moves to ban performance enhancing substances from the league to no avail. This new process may be a step in the right direction. But we all know how rapidly modern medicine is advancing and it won’t be long until there is a new ‘HGH’ on the market for these athletes. But that is not to say these efforts are in vain. This move by the NFL and NFLPA is great not only for the sport but for the lives of these athletes during and most importantly after their careers.
You can watch the video interview on Outside the Lines here: http://search.espn.go.com/nfl-hgh/
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