More Romanowski Garbage

[Bleujayone]

Just when I think Bill Romanowski couldn't be a bigger jackass, he has to go and open his big yap again. To me it seems he's said this for two reasons; self promotion (between his new book and movie) and self justification (it wasn't really THAT bad). To me he's a cheater and I also do not beleive he's being truthful with the media, the sportsworld, or even himself.

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Romanowski says he stayed ahead of NFL's drug policy

May 17, 2005

DENVER (AP) -- Bill Romanowski says he stayed one step ahead of the NFL's drug policy during his 16-year career, always taking nutritional supplements that the league had not yet banned.

``As soon as they found out that something could be tested for, I stopped taking it. I didn't want that embarrassment, but I pushed that envelope ethically and morally because if I could take something that would help me perform better and it wasn't on the list, I was going to take it,'' Romanowski said in an interview published Tuesday in the Rocky Mountain News.

``I had two criteria: Would it hurt me? And would I test positive?''

``In the end, there's been some embarrassment at what I had to deal with,'' he said.

He said he took supplements because he was ``insecure.''

From 1988-03, Romanowski played linebacker for the San Francisco 49ers, Philadelphia Eagles, Denver Broncos and Oakland Raiders.

He was in Denver this week to promote his role as a prison guard in ``The Longest Yard,'' an Adam Sandler movie that opens later this month.

Romanowski also is working on a book about his life and assisting in the development of dietary supplements he says can help with concussions, which may have hastened his retirement.

In 2001, Douglas County, Colo., prosecutors dropped charges against Romanowski's wife, Julie, who had faced eight counts of illegally obtaining the diet drug phentermine for her husband. Romanowski had been acquitted on related charges the month before.

Investigators said he took phentermine to enhance his play, while the defense said he took the drug to suppress his appetite before games. The drug is not banned by the NFL.

In November 2003, the NFL notified Romanowski that he tested positive for newly discovered steroid THG, or tetrahydrogestrinone. Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative has been accused of giving the steroid to athletes to enhance performance.

``It wasn't about illegal. I was doing things that they couldn't test for,'' Romanowski told the Rocky Mountain News. ``At the core, I compromised my integrity to become the best I could be, to perform at the highest level possible.''

``That's the learning experience. If you continue to do the things that compromise your integrity then what are you?'' he said. ``Morally, you get into a bind. What do you want? Is it quality of life? Do you want to feel good? It was a struggle that I had.''

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"Morally in a bind?" Am I the only one that thinks this was a relativly short struggle? He said he took supplements because he was ``insecure.'' Aww, well I guess that makes it okay then. I don't care if his mother didn't love him enough, I have yet to hear anything from any athlete to move me to give sympathy. "...the defense said he took the drug to suppress his appetite before games." Puh-lease, somehow I don't picture Romanowski pounding down the buffet table before the game. If you told me Gilbert Brown was doing it for the same reason, I might consider it.

Just once I'd like an athlete to come clean. Something along the lines of, "Yes I did steroids, performing enhancing drugs, and/or other substances to give me an advantage over everyone else. It doesn't matter who else did them or why, the fact is I did them and whether or not they were on a "list", it was wrong for me to do." It's a fool's dream I know, but no more foolish than anyone who thinks that it isn't already widespread, or those who think there's a way to eliminate it.

It's like he's making a half-hearted attempt to come clean, and then changes his mind, and makes excuses. If it's all legal then why even bring it up? It reminds me of another ex-athlete who decided to halfway come clean just before he published his own book.

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Hmm?so all the dirty tactics, cheap shots and penalties were the result of roid rage and a lack of maternal love?

Please.

Man's a dickhead, plain and simple. And a big cheater.

[Avenger]

I never particularly cared for Romo, even when he played for the Broncos. His only redeeming quality was breaking Kerry Collins' jaw in a preseason game several years back.

[Mac6674]

As a Penn State alum and Oakland Raider fan, I must take umbrage with that last statement.

And Romo is a complete jerk, and my worst nightmare was Oakland winning the Super Bowl because he made a great play. Guess we dodged that bullet.

[FiddySicks]

As a Penn State alum and Oakland Raider fan, I must take umbrage with that last statement.

And Romo is a complete jerk, and my worst nightmare was Oakland winning the Super Bowl because he made a great play.  Guess we dodged that bullet.

OK, youre a Raiders fan and your biggest nightmare wasnt Chucky beating down the team he "Betrayed" with Tony Dungys team? Hmmmm............

EDIT: Woah that was wierd. As soon as i got done posting this i scrolled up and looked at the ads, and what was it for? Thats right, The Raider Image.

[ColeJ]

he can brag all he wants about being ahead of the policy.... but we all know his junk went tiny, from using all those drugs.

[NJTank]

Well any chance he has of getting in the Hal of Fame is gone now with this mocking confession its almost like he was bragging.

[Cujo]

Well any chance he has of getting in the Hal of Fame is gone now with this mocking confession its almost like he was bragging.

IMO Romo wasn't going to the HOF in the first place.

[Mac6674]

OK, youre a Raiders fan and your biggest nightmare wasnt Chucky beating down the team he "Betrayed" with Tony Dungys team?

Chucky didn't betray the Raiders. His conservative coaching in New England did leave us in position to be screwed by one of the all-time wrong calls, however.

the real problem in that Super Bowl was Bill Callahan being too stupid to even change the terminology used in the play calling, so that the Bucs were able to recognize the audibles because they'd heard the exact same thing in practice all week.

[See Red]

Chucky didn't betray the Raiders. His conservative coaching in New England did leave us in position to be screwed by one of the all-time wrong calls, however.

The call was correct. The rule was terrible... but the call was correct.

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Chucky didn't betray the Raiders. His conservative coaching in New England did leave us in position to be screwed by one of the all-time wrong calls, however.

One call doesn't explain why the Raiders weren't able to march back down the field, or to score on their own possessions in OT.

[HatCityEnforcer]

As a Connecticut native, I'm ashamed to have to call Bill Romanowski a fellow Nutmeg Stater (it's right up there with having to count Michael F-n Bolton as a fellow native of this state..cept the only thing Bolton ever abused was mousse )

I always thought Romo was a fluffing idiot...comments like these confirm my suspicisions about him and his intelligence (or lack thereof)...

[dwertman]

Well any chance he has of getting in the Hal of Fame is gone now with this mocking confession its almost like he was bragging.

IMO Romo wasn't going to the HOF in the first place.

I was thinkin that too...since when is this assclown a HOFer.

[Mac6674]

The call was correct. The rule was terrible... but the call was correct.

No it wasn't. On replay, you can see the ball had just touched Brady's left hand, which means he wasn't throwing the ball; Steve Young explained it on NFL Countdown that that's exactly what the refs told them back when he played. He was one of a very small number of NFL commentators that actually said the call was wrong.

One call doesn't explain why the Raiders weren't able to march back down the field, or to score on their own possessions in OT.

I agree. Like I said, his conservative play calling kept the Pats in the game; early on the Raiders looked unstoppable and he just stopped throwing the ball. He seemed to learn from his mistake once he got to Tampa.