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IMO, if you're suspended by the league you should be ineligible for the Pro Bowl.
For those of you doing the "tainted supplements" dance...bullshit. First of all, the league has a list of approved (read: tested) supplements that are known to be free of any banned substances. Players with half a brain use them. Second, supplement companies don't make money by spiking their cheap-to-make-but-sold-at-an-insane-markup products with expensive and illegal drugs. Those claims (always by an athlete that's tested positive) have been shown time and again to be utter bullshit. The government coming in and shutting you down hurts profits. Third, if you understood how athletes are tested for drugs (T/E ratio), you'd know that the chances of the mythical "tainted supplement" resulting in a positive drug test are precisely zero (playing make-believe...a "tainted" supplement would have to have a sky-high level of "taint" to trigger a positive test).
I believe that currently the NFL's allowed T/E ratio is 5:1. That means they can have 5 times the normal amount of testosterone in their body before being considered positive for using gear. Athletes that use simply monitor their blood (with a physician's help) to float just under that threshold.
What this means is that a lot of guys (most?) who test clean are in fact using. They're just very smart about it. Look at the size, speed and musculature of today's NFL player. You think that's natural? Please.
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