Upshaw: Players union won't accept HGH tests

[QB Eagles]

I'm sure their opposition comes from the best of intentions.

If the World Anti-Doping Agency produces blood-test kits for HGH, NFL Players Association executive director Gene Upshaw told The Charlotte Observer he doesn't want to see them used in the league.

"I have no confidence in WADA or their kits," Upshaw told the Observer in an e-mail. "I have my doubts about WADA and their history. I am not willing to accept them as an authority on this.

"The league may have some interest, but it will not be done without approval of the players."

WADA science director Dr. Olivier Rabin told the newspaper that WADA will release the commercial blood-testing kits before the end of the year.

The NFL currently only uses urine tests, which can't detect HGH, but The Observer reported that NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said the league "open to considering" the blood-testing kits if WADA made them available.

WADA president Dick Pound defended the tests.

"I don't know where he's coming from," Pound said of Upshaw in a telephone interview with The Observer. "The HGH test is good. The science is good. It makes it look like he doesn't want blood testing.

"You can't look at a cross section of the NFL and its players and not come to a conclusion, even as a non-specialist, that some of this is being used."

Upshaw is probably farging with the wrong guy. Anyone who goes through life with the name "Dick Pound" learns how to defend himself.

[Rome]

I personally don't give a shtein what those roided out freaks use.  It's none of my business.

Just win me a Super Bowl, damn it.

[QB Eagles]

I personally don't give a shtein what those roided out freaks use.  It's none of my business.

Just win me a Super Bowl, damn it.

I basically have the same opinion. Ability to enhance performance will always exceed ability to detect enhancements. The ideal of a "clean" league is never achievable. In addition to drugs and artificial hormones, we are quickly approaching the era when players will be able to enhance themselves through surgeries and cybernetics.

[hbionic]

"Personal foul, defense, laser blasting, 15-yard penalty, repeat 1st down"