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irritatedNow Playing: NFL Suspension of Hollis Thomas for Steriod Use
Can you believe this? Talk about being overzealous. --Kiki
NEW ORLEANS (Dec. 5, 2006) -- Saints defensive tackle Hollis Thomas was suspended for the final four games of the regular season for violating the league's steroid policy.
Thomas, backed by the team, appealed the suspension, which he said was caused by using asthma medication. He uses an inhaler daily and it apparently contained a banned steroid.
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Here's my letter to the NFL. Let me suggest you also write them. This is crazyness. --Kiki
December 6, 2006
Roger Goodell
Commissioner of the NFL
280 Park Ave.
New York, NY 10017
Dear Mr. Goodell:
As a football fan and a lifelong asthmatic, I'm a deeply offended by the suspension of New Orleans Saints' tackle Hollis Thomas for steroid use. Any competent doctor will tell you that the best preventative treatment of an asthma attack is the use of oral or inhaled steroids. I trust that the doctors employed by NFL teams are some of the best in the country, and they would not deny this fact.
To suspend Mr. Thomas for perceived illegal or abusive steroid use is to reveal your gross ignorance and horrible lack of flexibility. A steroid used in the treatment of asthma does not give athletes or regular people an unfair advantage. It provides the fairness of being able to breathe normally like everyone else. Other asthmatics, in and out of the NFL, will agree. Please revise your steroid use policy and rescind Mr. Thomas' suspension.