The National Football League has become too big for its own good. With the suspensions today of six players, none of whom the league can prove used steroids, it has moved to new heights in arrogance.
While unfair competition by using performance-enhancing drugs should be banned for the good of the game and sports in general, the NFL has much larger issues facing it. Diuretics? Is this really as important as the death of Sean Taylor and the safety of the players in the league? All the gun-carrying that is going on for various reasons should be the subject the league is addressing, not water weight loss in training camp.
It is doubtful any player involved in the suspensions used steroids. The policy that players use "any" medication or over-the-counter product "at their own risk" is absurd when one considers the league doesn't even know which products violate its own policy. That was the case here.
Marc Lee, Santa Clarita, Calif.
