Brent Schrotenboer of the San Diego Union-Tribune has compiled a detailed history of the use of anabolic steroids in the National Football League. It identified 185 players publicly linked to steroids go back to 1962.

The San Diego Union-Tribune has done its own “Mitchell Report” of sorts on performance-enhancing drugs in pro football. The baseball Mitchell Report had 85 names going back to about 1993. The accompanying list has 185 names linked to such drug use dating to 1962 and also 85 names since 1993. It includes 52 former Pro Bowl players and four Hall of Famers.

The “Schrotenboer Report on the Use of Steroids in the NFL” confirms that the Mitchell Report was a waste of money. Major League Baseball paid over $20 million to the law firm of former Senator George Mitchell to compile the “Mitchell Report.” The substance, if not the verbosity, of the Schrotenboer Report exceeds that of the Mitchell Report detailing football players who were publicly linked to steroid use over the past four decades. Schrotenboer was only paid the salary of a staff writer for a major newspaper.

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