The Steelers, Steroids, and Profound Misconceptions

During the NFL annual meetings in 2005, coach Jim Haslett (then of the New Orleans Saints) delivered a series of comments that set off a renewed firestorm about the Pittsburgh Steelers use of steroids in the 1970s.  In an article that was carried by both the Los Angeles Times and the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, Haslett claimed the Pittsburgh Steelers brought the use of steroids en vogue throughout the NFL.

Haslett stated, "It started, really, in Pittsburgh. They got an advantage on a lot of football teams. They were so much stronger (in the) '70s, late '70s, early '80s. They're the ones who kind of started it."

Haslett (an admitted steroid user himself) carries respectable NFL credentials.  Yet from his statements, one might construe from his com...

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