In January, Major League Baseball announced it would start randomly testing players for HGH, and soon after that, NBA commissioner David Stern said he wanted HGH testing for his league by next season. Though the NFLPA is apparently on board with testing the NFL's players -- union executive director DeMaurice Smith said as much the day after MLB made its announcement -- the league and the union have not agreed on how to implement such a test. On Thursday, Adolpho Birch -- the NFL's senior vice president of law and labor policy -- had a chance to talk with reporters at the NFL combine, and he clearly is not pleased with the delay in implementing the test. Particularly since the NFLPA has said it has an issue with the potential appeals process. “It's hard to understand what it is about the [appeals] system that they're saying they need that we have not made a proposal on,†Birch said, via the Washington Post. “It is clear that in response to the recent set of issues raised, we put forward a proposal that addressed every one of the stated concerns that they had concerning the appeals process.†As you probably remember, blood-testing for HGH was agreed to by both parties in the CBA that ended the lockout before the 2011 season but for various reasons, the testing hasn't happened yet. “It's just enough,†Birch said. “We've been through this for two years now. … There is absolutely no reason for this to have taken this long and us not have testing implemented. We should have been more than a year into this by now.†Source: CBS Sports
