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PFDeschamps,
Your statement,
Actually there was a time where the Steelers were doing it but it wasnt exposed to all other teams so technically they did have an unfair advantage even though it wasnt illegal.
................isn't correct.
According to Steve Courson himself - the Steelers player who exposed steroid use in the NFL back in 1985, the Steelers were not the only team using steroids, nor were they the first team to do it.
This is from a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review article in 1985:
For Courson, the Steelers were but a milepost in a long journey to steroid abuse that began before he was drafted into the league.
"Limited use" of steroids as a defensive lineman at the University of South Carolina rocketed to regular injections toward the end of his career with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the early 1980s, when age and injuries forced him "to rely on them" to stay in the league.
"I looked at it naively. It's like other strength athletes of my era -- a lot of us got into them, and they worked," Courson said.
In written evidence presented to Congress, Courson traced the migration of substances designed to hike the performance of Soviet weightlifters to American gyms. By 1963, Courson wrote, steroids reached the San Diego Chargers through strength coach Alvin Roy, who worked before with the U.S. Olympic weightlifting team.
When Roy later joined the Chiefs, Cowboys and Raiders, steroid use followed in his wake, eventually reaching the Steelers dynasty and every other NFL team, according to Courson.
Roy died in 1979.
"By the time of our dynasty, it was pretty widespread throughout the league," said Courson.
While the Steelers were using during the 70's, so were there main rivals in the AFC - the Raiders, and there biggest rival in the NFC - the Cowboys. It may not have been as great an advantage as you suggest since according to Courson, " it was pretty widespread throughout the league".
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