Of course they do! And of course they've found a way to beat the system, just like players in every other sport. It's just a sign of the times. The drugs and the drug makers will always be ahead of the tests. That should be the lesson America learned from BALCO.
Anyway...
I bring this up because of this story from the Baltimore Sun:
In the months before his 2005 death, former NFL offensive lineman Steve Courson wrote a 5,000-word letter expressing disappointment that more players aren't open about their steroid use and saying the league's enormous popularity relies on a "myth" of its players as drug-free heroes.
"I believe the NFL is a prisoner to their own public relations myth," Courson said in the letter, which was found on the computer of his western Pennsylvania home after he was crushed to death at age 50 by a tree he was cutting down. "The level of deception and exploitation that the NFL requires to do business still amazes me."
BTW, died cutting down a tree? Yikes.
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Remember ... Hank Steinbrenner told you so.