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Toby Stumbo -> RE: RE:NFL News (10/27/2008 12:13:17 PM)
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McAlister sheds some light on brewing NFL issue
New Orleans Saints running back Deuce McAllister was among the first players identified in the recent rash of positive tests for violation of the NFL's steroids and related substances policy last week.
After Sunday's game in London, McAllister addressed the issue.
"We've been kind of going through this process for a while," McAllister said, according to the Associated Press. "I guess you guys just found out about it at this point. But whatever happens, that’s what’s going to happen.
"We’ve hired counsel," he said. "He’s going to do his job to kind of put the case together and however the NFL rules, that’s the way it will be.”
Despite the reports of a positive test for Bumetanide, a banned diuretic, McAllister contended that he didn’t violate league rules.
“You hate to put yourself in a situation like this because you not only play by the rules, not only these eight years that I’ve been here in the league but four years of college and four years of high school,” he said. “You always want to play by the rules, and that’s what we’ve tried to do, myself as well as other individuals. . . . We’ve done everything that we were asked to do, that the league has asked us to do."
McAllister added that "there's more to the story than just a couple of lines."
The other players named thus far are: Saints DE Will Smith, Saints DE Charles Grants, Vikings DTs Kevin and Pat Williams, and Atlanta Falcons DT Grady Jackson.
ESPN reported on Sunday that several of the players are considering a lawsuit against the manufacturer of “StarCaps,” a weight-loss supplement that allegedly does not disclose on its label the presence of Bumetanide.
A November 2007 entry on the National Center for Biotechnology Information’s web site disclosed that Bumentanide was found in the StarCaps product.
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