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NFL has experienced what MLB is going through

By John Clayton
ESPN.com

Wednesday, June 5, 2002

Gene Upshaw, executive director of the NFL Players Association, sat next to Don Fehr, his baseball counterpart, at a lawyers' symposium in Phoenix last weekend. Fehr leaned over and asked Upshaw a few questions about baseball's newest hot topic -- steroids. Baseball doesn't test. Pro football has the most extensive testing for drugs and steroids among the major sports. So, in the short time they had together, Upshaw shared some history lessons about stern policies that have been in place for mo ...

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