The whole OBJ drama of the weekend brought me to that question. It seems that having a star player suspended for drugs would actually hurt the product they put on the field.
Do they really care about the players health? The whole concussion/CTE stance by the NFL would indicate they don't or more like they only care about avoiding lawsuits and payouts to players.
Is it because its illegal? The leagues cared about recreational drug use a long time before they cared about PED use. They only got serious about it when the government got involved.
Is it a bargaining chip with the players unions? Is it a power thing over the players?
How are the professional leagues benefiting from drug testing? What's your opinion?
Agree with everything. The stigma is rapidly diminishing, though. Younger generations just don’t care that people smoke weed.
and it's just not younger generations (though they have led the change) who don't care about weed anymore, it's across the board, check out the results from states like MA, CO, OR, WA, CA, NV. Gen X, baby boomers, millennials, etc. all doubled or tripled in support or legalized weed since 2006 - only besides millennials they all had farther to go. for example baby boomers support legalized weed 1t 56% up from 17% in 2006, Gen X is 57%, up from 21%.
It really is sort of arbitrary to have legal alcohol and illegal weed, but the law is the law, so that's why the league cares.
Bottom line though is the NFL league policy for weed is so lax if you do in fact get busted for weed and wind up suspended you just don't care about following the NFL rules. You are told the period of time you'll be tested (4/20 (LOL) - 8/9) - once and only once during that period, fail a test and all you have to do is remain clean and show up for tests for 90 days and you're out of the program, period. and if you don't then it all snowballs.
It's estimated for every one player suspended for weed, 5 to 10 players fail a test and exit the program "anonymously".
As a paying fan of the Giants, I am not going to spend so much for tickets to watch a bunch of stoners sleeping at mid field and then gobbling cheeseburgers and pizza at the Gatorade table. LOL
As a paying fan of the Giants, I am not going to spend so much for tickets to watch a bunch of stoners sleeping at mid field and then gobbling cheeseburgers and pizza at the Gatorade table. LOL
You sound inexperienced with weed (or are joking), and that's fine, but it doesn't effect you like the stereotypes. Or doesn't always and/or immediately.
In high school there were guys on my hockey and baseball teams who would smoke weed before games sometimes. just calmed them down, didn't make them sleepy or hungry. I used to take sudafed before hockey games because the ephedrine made my heart rate faster. This was when sudafed was over the counter and before the Angels pitcher died from it.
I also think it's kind of a naive/convenient for a Giants fan to have that view, when it's pretty likely LT played high at least occasionally.
now, I'm not saying players should be using weed before games, but I don't think they're going to fall asleep at midfield or eat the whole buffet after. if it impacts their play, they simply won't last long in the league.
Would you risk $10,000,000 a year on someone that couldn't pass a scheduled alcohol/marijuana screening?
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not wanting the players to get into the game high. If you allow it for recreational use at home, then there is no way to truly know if the player smoked 10 min before kickoff.
As a paying fan of the Giants, I am not going to spend so much for tickets to watch a bunch of stoners sleeping at mid field and then gobbling cheeseburgers and pizza at the Gatorade table. LOL
You sound inexperienced with weed (or are joking), and that's fine, but it doesn't effect you like the stereotypes. Or doesn't always and/or immediately.
In high school there were guys on my hockey and baseball teams who would smoke weed before games sometimes. just calmed them down, didn't make them sleepy or hungry. I used to take sudafed before hockey games because the ephedrine made my heart rate faster. This was when sudafed was over the counter and before the Angels pitcher died from it.
I also think it's kind of a naive/convenient for a Giants fan to have that view, when it's pretty likely LT played high at least occasionally.
now, I'm not saying players should be using weed before games, but I don't think they're going to fall asleep at midfield or eat the whole buffet after. if it impacts their play, they simply won't last long in the league.
Yes I was joking about falling asleep and getting the munchies at the bench. The entire second paragraph. There is no way that it should be allowed though.
On this we agree entirely.