Ok let me be more specific. All I am asking is that they follow the same guidelines that I have to follow as a truck driver. Most any trucking company's policy is that if I show up to work and there are ANY, regardless of what the law says is an allowable limit, so let me repeat that again, ANY traces of alcohol on my breath it is an automatic termination. So yeah, if I have a beer on my lunch hour then it is bye bye career.

If you have watched football as long as I have then you have seen the guy getting carried off of the field with a life threatening spinal injury that ends his career. There are also concussions to consider. As I stated before the player needs to have his full faculties when on the field because it is a dangerous sport. If they will take growth hormones and all kinds of other chemicals just to get that little bit of an edge in their performance, then they need to treat their conscious awareness the same way and not be under the influence when on the field.

The reason I do not want that guy on my team is because he doesn't take his position on the team seriously if he is careless enough to break policy in this manner. He is more likely to get an injury with that kind of an attitude because it will show in his performance and it will likely affect other areas of his life. Michael Irvin is a perfect example of this. He could have had a longer career, but got carried off the field on a stretcher in his last game. I don't want the guy who is more likely to get injured and miss play time leaving a weakness in team performance if they don't have a guy as good as him to replace him.

If you think these players wouldn't show up under the influence if it was allowed then you don't know anything about how some of these players think who have a mentality that they can get away with things that other people cannot get away with. It is groomed into them from high school onward. Have you watched Jeff Berwick the Dollar Vigilante's recent videos about alcohol? He nails it.