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Originally Posted by Tabe
It's a couple things:
1) The NFL routinely busts guys and suspends them. It happens often enough that people are used to it and there's not a lot of drama surrounding it for the most part.
2) The NFL and its fans aren't as stats-driven as MLB and its fans. The magic numbers MEAN something to baseball fans. To football fans? Not so much. What's the record for receiving yards? Pass attempts? Sacks? Most fans don't know. They might know the yardage and TD records since Peyton set them this year but for the most part the records are unknown and not-cared-about. So PED usage that obliterates records, like in baseball, simply doesn't matter to the NFL fan.
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I know there are some guys that get busted in the NFL, but they obviously don't crack down on it, otherwise half the league would be suspended, which is why they probably don't do it. I may have just answered my own question there. I could look it up, but off-hand, I don't remember any NBA or NHL steroid suspensions.
The second part is probably correct, I just don't understand why baseball gets 99% of the PED attention between the four major sports. I would doubt they have half the users of football and no more than either of the other two leagues
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