Don't want to "blow your brains out at 45" because of the physical and mental toll of playing football?? Don't play football. Don't take the millions of dollars, the rock star fame, the women, the cars, the lifestyle, the adulation, the endorsement deals, the largesse. And even if you do, don't hang on well past your due date like Brett Favre or some of these guys looking for one last big payday. Get a 9-5 job where smoking weed on your down time is your business. Well, not a good job where they drug test because they are being responsible stakeholders, a shitty job where you can do whatever you want outside of work. But don't cry me a river. _
The NFL doesn't even do substance abuse testing during the regular season because they acknowledge that the vast majority of players use it as a recovery tool. The testing period is April to August. They also raised the threshold that triggers a positive test. You have to be a legitimate idiot to get suspended for this, but the NFL has been immensely softening the policy. Sheldon is a moron, and the league's policy is wrong. The 2 events aren't mutually exclusive.
Steroids help during competition. Speed helps during completion. HGH helps between competition. Weed helps between competition. All have advantages and disadvantages. Different types of performance enhancers enhancing at different times. They are banned for a reason. _
The league isn't concerned about the advantage it gives players in between competition, they don't even test for it during the season. They only care about it when they players are doing it on their free time, for some reason.
I work at a financial institution and we drug test and every major Wall Street firm I know drug tests. I peed in a cup for my buddy interviewing at Goldman. _
Technically players in Seattle and Denver can legally smoke it.... If I was the GM of either team I would be recruiting potheads left and right. The SB would be Broncos vs Seahawks every year. However just because it is legal doesn't mean a company can't require you not use it. On a side note marijuana will never be legal in all 50 states. Hell, look at abortion. It's been over 4o years since being upheld as legal by SCOTUS and states are still finding ways to make it hard to do. As long as you have staunch conservatives and bible thumpers running the show, it will never be legal. The only chance it has is as a tax base to generate dollars. Still a long shot.
It is still against NFL rules for players on those teams or players visiting those states to use it. The union will need to fight to have it removed at the next cba which will result in giving in to something else such as an 18 game season. As for ALL 50 states making it legal. I suspect they will all fall one by one for exactly the tax reason you pointed out. It's far too big a money maker for the two states you mentioned. But i will counterpoint myself and point out that dry counties still exist almost a decade after alcohol prohibition ended.
I'd be a little less upset about the situation if it was say mlb where they play 162 a season, hope he's ready to roll come week 5,
I'd be a little less upset about the situation if it was say mlb where they play 162 a season, hope he's ready to roll come week 5,
Dude lose the schtick. If I had a high horse about the issue I wouldn't have given him the sample in the first place. _
Lol "schtick"? I just find it funny that you are preaching about following the rules in a thread where you admit you attempted to help a friend circumvent those exact rules to get a job. Calling you on hypocrisy isn't a shtick.
He 'vowed' that he was gonna straighten out. Wonder if he was vowing shit the first couple of times too? At this point it would appear that he is one step away from 1 year out. Richardson needs to get his head together so he really doesnt fuck himself good first...then come back a better player even possibly
