Yankees’ VP Hank Steinbrenner went on offense recently, stating that the steroid problem in football is more widespread and serious than the one in baseball. It would sound like a lot of hot air and angry rambling if he wasn’t, you know, correct. From the AP:

“I don’t like baseball being singled out,” the New York Yankees senior vice president said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press on Monday night. “Everybody that knows sports knows football is tailor-made for performance-enhancing drugs. I don’t know how they managed to skate by. It irritates me. Don’t tell me it’s not more prevalent. The number in football is at least twice as many. Look at the speed and size of those players.”

Answered NFL spokesman Greg Aiello: “We’ve had year-round random testing with immediate suspensions since 1990 and we conduct approximately 12,000 steroids tests a year.”

Steinbrenner is absolutely right, and it’s something that’s always bothered us. Football players get the four-game hit, and we talk about how it will affect a team on the field. Baseball players get nabbed, and it’s sullying the purity of the game. Football’s steroid problem needs a closer look, and this video confirms it:

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