Bill Romanowski admits, "I took (human growth hormone) for a brief period.."

Romanowski is coming out with a book titled: "Romo: My Life on the Edge."(1) I am sure that this new book will probably glorify drug use in sports just like Jose Canseco's book "Juiced" did.

It was reported over a year ago in the San Francisco Chronicle that Bill Romanowski "was said to have received performance-enhancing drugs" from the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO)(2)

Now he is writing a book about all of this. Surprise, surprise! Not really...he probably saw all of the money and fame that Jose Canseco was getting from his book and decided to get a piece of the action, so we are not surprised at all.

Flex Magazine touched on the subject of the NFL and the increasing size of the players in the March 1997 issue by reporting:

"the NFL makes the 260-pound IFBB brigade seem like a KATE MOSS look-alike convention."(3)

Well, what I have to say to that is "Not anymore!" because less than eight years later there are IFBB bodybuilding competitors stepping on stage at over 300 pounds with a whole lot less body fat than an NFL player!

This Flex magazine piece, which you see clipped here(4), compares the number of NFL players weighing over 300 pounds in 1976 through 1996. The count was zero, zip, zilch, nada in 1976. That count went to eight in 1986. To, get this, an unbelievable one hundred and seventy nine players over 300 pounds in 1996!

That is 0 to 179 in 20 years! Hey, bodybuilding has seen the same transformations as well. Like I said, bodybuilders are stepping on stage at over 300 pounds with a whole lot less body fat than these NFL guys. 

Did you notice when this sudden growth occurred? The window between 1976 and 1986 there were only 8 NFL guys weighing over 300 pounds. From 1986 to 1996 it jumped to 179. That was a mere 10-year period. Why such huge growth in only 10 years?

I suspect Human Growth Hormone! You see, up until 1985 the synthetic form, which I talk about in my book
"Anabolic Outlaw", was not available in huge quantities. Synthetic human growth hormone when misused is a form of sorcery that is partly responsible for creating giants in these last days.

Footnotes

(1) Associated Press, "Bill Romanowski Says He Used Steroids." (washingtonpost.com), October 13, 2005
(2) Fainaru-Wada, Mark and Williams, Lance, "Bonds got steroids, feds were told Slugger's trainer said to have given substances to several athletes." (sfgate.com), March 2, 2004
(3) "The Growth of the NFL." Flex, Short Shots, (March 1997), 40
(4) Ibid, 40