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I'll throw out Walter Payton, Emmit Smith, Jerry Rice as names. I would say it is likely that at least one time one of them took something or shot something into their bodies that wasn't legal. There simply isn't the fascination amongst fans and media of asterisking their accomplishments, eliminating them from the HOF, all this stuff. My initial thought is people still take stuff in the NFL and can pass their drug tests. And that is fine.

MLB baseball has drug testing now. Was it too slow coming about? Absolutely, but go forward and do what you can from this point and onward. To be conducting witch hunts at this point is counter productive in my opinion. Really wasn't the Salem experience enough in that regard in this country?? And that is all this Mitchell report was in my opinion. Of course my opinions are usually wrong, but they still exist. I think the Mitchell report was an attempt by Bud Selig to exonerate himself only for being slow on the draw with drug testing. I think it was a self serving attempt by him to simply make himself look good. It had nothing to do with improving MLB. These crimes committed by the players in question taking these drugs are in essence not harmful to society. It's not like they are going to be put away in prison based on this report. So what function did it serve other than to make Bud Selig look like he really delved into this problem earnestly?? I see no other reason. ( I don't think Selig is satan as commissioner. I'm indifferent to him. HE's done some good things. I just think this Mitchell report was all about him and him alone.)

dysfunctional?? Perhaps...I think just a delayed drug policy is all. IF that makes it dysfunctional fine. You don't have a bunch of Lyle Alzado's Mike Webster's or Andre Waters' type retired MLB players walking around. Or too many tooling around in wheel chairs. The NFL is simply high priced organized brutatlity. That alone makes it more dysfunctional. The fact that they got better drug testing in place first in my opinion does not make the NFL a complete non-"dysfucntional" institution.

It's pro sports, people will always cheat in MLB and the NFL and get away with it more than not regardless of whatever drug testing policy is currently in place.