Quote Originally Posted by Conrad View Post
A minimum of 4 weeks? That's still a very minor punishment for steroid abuse as opposed to other sports. In athletics your career is pretty much over if you get caught (Dwain Chambers).

So are steroids tolerated in the NFL? I noticed on a different thread about some baseball player that got caught using and Lyle hated on this guy becuase he was a juicer.

Would there not be as much stigma attached to an NFL player testing positive then?
The NFL regular season is only 16 games, so 4 games is a quarter of the season, which is pretty significant, however steroid testing has always been FAR more stringent in the NFL than any other team sport in the U.S., therefore making it more difficult to get away with it. However to answer your question, baseball is heavily influenced by statistics, so anything done illegally to boost your stats is considered sacriligous to baseball fans, whereas stats don't weigh as heavily in the NFL, so yes, there is not the same stigma for an NFL player who gets caught as someone in the MLB.