Steroids are Rampant in the NFL

This is 100% natural

No NFL players are tested for HGH.  I repeat, no NFL players are tested for Human Growth Hormone, the most famous and available steroid that almost anyone has ever heard of...and the NFL is not testing for it.

Quick, name another steroid, other than HGH.  

Neither can I.  

Barry Bonds used THG (tetrahydrogestrinone), but I needed to look it up.  

The following stories are from my imagination, but I absolutely believe that they are true:

The Rookie: A young man has invested his whole life in football.  He was a star at a large high school that has sent several people to the NFL.  He was told from a young age that the only way out of his bad neighborhood or downtrodden town was on the football field, and that he was the one everyone was counting on.  That young man gets a football scholarship and he takes easy classes to stay eligible for football.  By his senior year he is not close to graduating and never invested in the difficult classes that would prepare him for a life after football.  Football was the plan, the only plan, and he was fully invested in it.  The young man was good at the college level, but not a star.  He played a lot, but was never irreplaceable.  He declared for the draft, and hired an agent.  He went to the combine, and his numbers were decent, but slow for his position.  He was told that he would likely only be drafted if he had a much better time at his schools pro day.  At the combine the young man heard a roomer about someone who could get him something that would help him get the time he needed.  Football was the way out, his family's dreams depended on him, if he could not get a better 40 time, just enough to be drafted, he would disappoint everyone.  He told himself he did not need to keep using, just for training, just to get drafted.  Numbers on a clock were not football, once he was on the team he could stop using and prove himself while clean, like he always had.  He uses, he is drafted in a late round, and he stops.  He shows up to OTA's and he is called "out of shape" and "slow" his agent informs him that he is "on the chopping block" if he does not impress the coaches soon.  He is too close to his dream to lose it now, so he calls his connection and tells the beat reporter that "he will be ready for training camp."  

Pictured David Boston: the exception that proves
the rule.  Boston used steroids to bulk up so much
that he was no longer productive as a receiver.

The Veteran:  The Veteran has had several good years in the league.  The coaches love his knowledge, instincts, and leadership.  He is often described as a fan favorite.  But this veteran has lost a step.  It is getting harder to stay healthy.  His marriage is strained and he is worried about divorce.  He managed his money well, but he still owes some for his house, and for the 3rd car.  With one big contract he can pay off the house and car and save enough for his kids to go to college.  He just needs one good year to show he can still do it on the field.  One good year to get enough guaranteed money in his next contract.  He has stayed clean all these years, but this late round rookie is making him look bad at training camp.  This kid is faster than he is, and he knows the coaches are impressed.  The veteran knows he that he is better than the kid, and he hears that the kid is juicing.  The vet always wanted to stay clean, he told himself he would leave the game with dignity when it was time, but he cannot find dignity in losing his spot to a cheater.  He has been around long enough to know who he needs to call.  The veteran has a good year, a career year, local writers describe how he has gotten better with age.  He tells them he has finally gotten his nutrition right, that he has learned to respect his sleep cycle, that his new form of training is special, and that the blood platelet treatment that he got in Europe has fixed his old nagging injury.  The coaches see his production and expand his role and he gets that last contract with guaranteed money.  The house is paid off and he will not have to worry about his kids affording college.  

The Star:  This player was highly drafted.  God gave him speed, strength, and size prototypical for his position.  He has worked hard to maximize those gifts.  He has never really though about juicing, he never felt a need to.  The star is near the end of his first big contract, and his salary is no longer guaranteed.  His agent tells him that the team is low balling him in their contract negotiations.  The team's stance is that the old veteran is giving them matching production at a fraction of the star's salary and that they have a second year player with promise who needs more minutes.  The team tells him they want to keep him, they drafted him, they developed him, the fans love him, but this is a business and as the price of his contract escalates so must his production or they will be forced to trade/cut him.  The star is one of the best in the league, he deserves that recognition, he deserves that money.  He hears roomers that the former rookie and the veteran are juicing, he hears that some of the other stars at his position are also juicing.  He works in a produce or go home career, he does not feel that he should let these inferior players have a competitive advantage over him.  A friend of his knows someone, and he makes a call.  

I understand why people in those positions make the choices they do.  I do not believe that all positions are rewarded equally by steroid use (I think that a quarterback makes better use of his time practicing timing and watching film, but a defensive tackle needs power, technique, size, and more power), but I cannot look at the spikes in production from baseball and think "I can't really see how being stronger and faster would help in the NFL."  Baseball showed us that when there is not testing the players will cheat.  I do not think that NFL players are any more or less moral than baseball players (or Wall Street bankers who will cheat through fraud and insider trading so long as the government does not prosecute them for it).  The NFL does not test for HGH while the rewards for cheating are fantastic.  I understand why they cheat.  It only partially their fault.  We talk about how advancements in medical science allow for faster recovery times.  They do, but some of those advancements are performance enhancers. We talk about how players and bigger, stronger, and faster in this era but do we really believe that the humane genome has changed that much over 20 years.  We allow ourselves to be fooled by articles about advancements in the science of exercise and diet and never question that some of those advancements may be chemical/hormonal.

Because when this guy played the game was pure?  I know
Mr. Romo, you never cheated, all of your hundreds of
supplements were allowed by the league and to prove it you
never tested dirty for anything they were testing for.

The prediction:   When the players association and the league reach an agreement on testing for HGH there will be a long and slow implementation period to allow the players to ween themselves off of it.  After it is through players will be noticeably smaller and slower.  The speed and size of players will regress to what they looked like in the 80's/90's, still elite athletes, but they will not look like extras from Conan the Barbarian (remember how baseball changed, performance enhancers are still a factor, it is no longer obvious).
I am wrong if:  If the association allows for immediate testing and there is not a significant number of players caught using HGH and if the game continues at the same speed and size that it currently does then my accusations are unfounded (though I think still logical).