Former NFL LB Bill Romanowski doesn't exactly have a squeaky-clean image. But he lauds the league for its efforts to stay clean, praising its drug-testing program while slamming recently suspended Texans LB Brian Cushing, who was suspended for violating it. "The NFL has been doing it, testing athletes, for 30 years and clearly they are one of the cleanest sports in the world when it comes to that," Romanowski said on SIRIUS XM's Mad Dog Radio. "People think that football players are doing a lot of stuff. Well, if they are they're playing russian roulette. So the NFL has done an outstanding job policing that. Are they perfect? No, but they have done an outstanding job." As for Cushing, the reigning defensive rookie of the year who will be suspended for the first four games of the 2010 season? "Here's the deal," said Romanowski. "The only way you can get that substance that he took, hCG, in your body is to inject it, okay? So let's get that clear. "So his sob story on TV was, I'm just going to say, was a total lie, okay? ... Do you think when he was getting injected in his (backside) that he didn't know what was going on? Well, bullcrap. Let's get real. Be honest about it, Brian. I'm sorry you got caught but be honest about it. What that substance is is a substance from pregnant women's urine and what it does is when you have taken a cycle of steroids it turns your system back on from being shut down. It is very, very common in bodybuilding. That is a bodybuilding supplement, or a bodybuilding drug, where when these bodybuilders go on massive doses of steroids for months at a time, they will take that drug to turn their normal system back on and get it working again." Cushing said he did not "inject or ingest any illegal substances that would enhance my performance" following his suspension. Source: USA Today
