The Steel Curtain should have been named the Steroid Curtain

saint_drago said

Well. I guess this would explain why they were so dominant. Makes sense. The teams that discover new ways to cheat or gain some sort of shady upper hand usually have a lot of success. Look at the Bash Brothers Oakland A's. Those guys looked like a football team because the roids were flowing freely.

PEDs are never going away. Players will always be looking for some type of edge. I look around at some of the teams in the NFL and they have a bunch of freakish players. Makes me wonder if they have a program in place. Like those 49ers teams under Harbaugh. Those were some of the most physically freakish defenses I have ever seen. Even their DBs were big and ripped.

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Hey Drago - good post and thx. My initial reaction was just like your words above. The point made by the former trainer yesterday was at the time, it was not cheating or illegal and not many experts knew the long term negative effect of roids.

After Flash's post about the Raiders doing roids back in the 70s, I personally had an Ah-ha moment. The 3 dominant teams of that era: Steelers, Cowgirls and Raiders were the early adopters of Roids. Apparently our Saints were at a disadvantage of winning

EDIT: and to your point about PEDs, Pete says it is rampant in the NFL these days and that the players are almost forced into a Roids/HGH regime to just stay competitive and recover from injuries quickly. He's also said that with the NFL rules today that a player has to be really dumb to get caught.