NFL To Institute New Game-Day PED Testing For 2011-12 Season
August 11th, 2011 – By Bryan Cross
The NFL has decided to institute a new game-day drug testing policy for the upcoming season, for which players will be subject to tests for performance-enhancing drugs.
This new policy is set forth under the newly negotiated Collective Bargaining Agreement.
“I would certainly expect players will be tested in an amount that will be meaningful. But more important, the idea is not so much the number of tests performed, but it is the constant threat of testing that provides the key to deterrence under this particular program,” NFL vice president of labor and policy Adolpho Birch said.
Both parties, the league and the NFLPA, had to come to terms on the issue, just one of the numerous ones that were decided over the course of the four-month lockout.
And as the NFL preseason is set to kickoff tonight, oddsmakers and online sportsbooks have got in on the drug testing action.
Bodog Sportsbook has compiled several NFL Prop Betting Lines relating to positive test results for the upcoming year.
Will an NFL Player test positive for HGH during the 2011 NFL Season (Including Playoffs)
Place a on an NFL player testing positive at any point throughout the course of the season on into the playoff. The odds favor that there will be a player to test positive, going off at -200.
Yes -200
No +150
What will be the position of the first player to test positive for HGH during the 2011 NFL Season
Place a bet on which side of the ball that a player who tests positive for the season will be on, with betting lines favor the defensive side
slightly.
Offense -110
Defense -130
What will be the position of the first player to test positive for HGH during the 2011 NFL Season
Place a specific wager on the position that the first player to test positive will play, with the defensive line leading the way at 5/2.
Quarterback 7/1
Running Back 5/1
Wide Receiver/Tight End 4/1
Offensive Line 3/1
Defensive Line 5/2
Safety/DB 4/1
Kicker/Punter 10/1
