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The leaders of a congressional subcommittee accused the NFL Players Association of using “stall tactics” in an effort to avoid testing for human growth hormone, according to a letter obtained by FOXSports.com on Friday. The letter sent to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and NFLPA executive direct DeMaurice Smith comes exactly two weeks after they met privately with officials from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to talk about why the HGH test had not yet been implemented. HGH testing was agreed to in the new collective bargaining agreement, but the union has blocked its implementation over the test's effectiveness. “With so much at stake, we appreciate the due process concerns and the players’ need to be reasonably confident that the HGH testing regime will not expose them to false positives,” Reform Committee chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and ranking member Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) wrote. “However, we believe that all parties to the collective bargaining agreement have an obligation to abide by its terms.” The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency offered to give the players union a tour of a lab where HGH testing is carried out, an invitation the NFLPA apparently declined. “The decision not to accept this offer and other signals indicate a lack of urgency on the players’ part to live up to the terms of the collective bargaining agreement they ratified this summer,” Issa and Cummings wrote.
Source: The Redzone
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