Congress Forced to Intervene on NFL HGH Testing

Between the NSA monitoring every e-mail we send and listening to every phone call we make, I'm getting a little less comfortable with big government.

Yesterday a few congressman mentioned that if the NFL players union doesn't do something soon about getting HGH testing started, that Congress would be "forced" to do something about it.

You know, like the hundreds of millions of dollars the government wasted getting involved in the Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens steroid investigations.

I get that they may have concerns, but like I've said SO MANY times in the past, HGH is not illegal. It's prescribed by doctors every single day to people who benefit from its use. While drunk drivers are busy killing 10,000 people EVERY single year, Congress is thinking about acting and stopping limited HGH use among pro football players. One is a danger to every driver and passenger on the road, while the other MAY be hurting their own long-term health.

The problem you see, is that many lawmakers have alcohol and drug abuse problems of their own (this is documented in a variety of other places, do the research yourself) and they don't see THOSE drug problems as a big enough deal to be concerned with. BUT they do want to assert THEIR will on other businesses who are taking the time to do drug testing right.

Baseball isn't "cleaner" because Congress got involved with steroid problems in baseball. Football isn't going to GET cleaner just because Congress decided to waste even more money investigating HGH use. The steroid hearings were, quite frankly, a joke. There were lots of testimonies by concerned people who THOUGHT that steroid use MAY have contributed to some ailment that they or their kin experienced, but no real evidence or studies demonstrating actual detrimental side-effects was ever introduced.

Congress wanted a chance to grandstand with unsubstantiated opinion, and that's all they did. As a result, they didn't come close to educating the public on anything of substance. If anything, they simply magnified the accepted myths of steroid abuse, further perpetuating the problem.

Let football solve their own problems. Get illegal drunk drivers off the road. And stop grandstanding.

And stop doing drugs yourselves. It's affecting how you think.