Alabama Crimson Tide

[AlabamAlum]

Listening to Finebaum is unbearable. It's a shame, too. FInebaum is a knowledgable, thoughtful sports journalist and a very decent man - or can be. He just panders to the idiots and fanatics now for ratings - and it's made him rich - but like a great photographer signing on with Juggs or Hustler, it's not the most artistic use of his talents.

[AlabamAlum]

What you want to bet that deer-antler spray and pyramid chips are used at Ohio State? Their use is pervasive. I heard about both well before the Heath Evans stuff at my gym.


No doubt Ohio State sold their golden pants for deer-antler spray. Word is, many Buckeye players have (free) deer-antler tatts.

[Jungle Rat]

How is it that an Ohio State fan is pulling your chains? Hello?

[Professor Tiger]

Evans said he learned only recently of Ross (pictured below), SWATS, and the Ultimate Spray from players at Auburn, where he attended school and where he is training during the lockout. Several Auburn players say they used another SWATS product called "chips," which are holographic patches embedded in bracelets or taped onto acupuncture points on the body. The chips contain formulas for over-the-counter nutrients that help restore energy and strength, according to Ross. Several Auburn players say they wore the chips during the 2010 season and credit them for helping them win the 2011 BCS title game.

http://www.thepostgame.com/features/201 ... swats-spra

And a story on Auburn, Alabama and others on the super-special hologram pyramid chips:

ThePostGame.com Exclusive: Auburn Tied To Controversial Supplement Company

http://www.thepostgame.com/features/201 ... nt-company

Tigerdroppings is now reporting that:

UA alum Danny Sheridan has identified Bama's bagman who paid the SWATS officials. He has already sent his information to the NCAA and will go public as soon as his lawyer approves.

UA alum Scott Moore has tapes of the conversations where Bama players took the juice from SWATS, and will soon play them on his radio show.

They are looking into who paid for recent repairs to Paul Bryant Jr's. church.

There is a cell phone that records hundreds of phone calls between the SWATS pushers and Bama players, but the cell phone accidentally got wet. We are now waiting for it to be examined by forensic experts.

Al Betar is facing serious jail tame on a separate charge, but he is spilling the beans to the FBI about the rampant PED use among Bama players, just to save his skin.

[AlabamAlum]

Pulling chains? You can't be serious, Rat.

[Professor Tiger]

And a story on Auburn, Alabama and others on the super-special hologram pyramid chips:

Says The Deflector In Chief.

[AlabamAlum]

You really don't understand words, do you? I mean you can say them and you can apparently type them; but their meaning, what is actually being said seems to elude you, doesn't it?

[Jungle Rat]

What are words anyway?

[10ac]

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[Professor Tiger]

You really don't understand words, do you? I mean you can say them and you can apparently type them; but their meaning, what is actually being said seems to elude you, doesn't it?

I understand your words. It's just that they are really stupid.

[AlabamAlum]

No. No you don't. It's obvious because you steal them and use them inappropriatly. Wrongly. Incorrectly.

[Professor Tiger]

Salesman: Bama players used spray

Updated: January 30, 2013, 1:22 PM ET
ESPN.com news services

The company that says it provided deer-antler spray, a product that contains a banned substance, to Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis also sold its goods to members of the 2012 national championship Alabama football team, according to a co-owner of the company.

And Christopher Key, the SWATS co-owner, told ESPN's Joe Schad on Wednesday he personally witnessed about five Alabama players spray what he sold them into their mouths.

"I showed them how to use it," Key said.

Key said about 20 players purchased the spray at a hotel room in New Orleans leading into the BCS national championship game against LSU. And he said he sold about 20 more bottles to players at the apartment of an Alabama player 10 days before the game.

Sports Illustrated first reported the connection between SWATS, an Alabama-based company, and several SEC programs.

The Sports Illustrated story reported that Key filmed a sales pitch to a number of Alabama players two days before the 2012 title game in New Orleans. The article mentioned former Crimson Tide defensive lineman Quinton Dial and current players Adrian Hubbard and Alex Watkins as being part of the sales pitch.

Watkins made a YouTube testimonial for SWATS, and Hubbard was filmed in the hotel room saying he had the deer-antler spray, SI reported. Deer-antler spray contains a substance, IGF-1, which is on the NFL's banned list.

"Nothing we offer them will make them fail a drug test," Key said, when asked about the substance being banned by the NCAA. "This will make you heal faster. This will give you nutrients. There have been many clinical studies."

Key said he has received cease-and-desist letters from Alabama, LSU and Auburn demanding not to use current players' likenesses. "But you can't tell me I can't talk to your players," Key said. "We live in a free country."

Alabama, in a statement issued Tuesday night, said: "UA has been aware of this situation for some time, and we have monitored this company for several years. They have twice ignored cease-and-desist letters sent by our compliance office. We have maintained consistent education of our student-athletes regarding the substances in question and will continue to do so."

Key said players bought products at a rate he cited as confidential.

"They want to win," he said. "After the games they said they couldn't believe how they weren't tired and how much energy they had."

Key was quoted by SI as explaining the benefits of the spray to the Alabama players.

"You're familiar with HGH, correct? It's converted in the liver to IGF-1," Key explained, according to the Sports Illustrated report. "IGF-1, or insulin-like growth factor, is a natural, anabolic hormone that stimulates muscle growth. We have deer that we harvest out of New Zealand. Their antlers are the fastest-growing substance on planet Earth ... because of the high concentration of IGF-1.

"We've been able to freeze dry that out, extract it, put it in a sublingual spray that you shake for 20 seconds and then spray three [times] under your tongue. ... This stuff has been around for almost 1,000 years, this is stuff from the Chinese," Key said, according to the magazine.

However, a professor at Johns Hopkins University told the Baltimore Sun that, despite SWATS' claims, there isn't an acceptable scientific way that IGF-1 can be effectively delivered orally.

"If there were, a lot of people would be happy that they don't need to get shots anymore," Dr. Roberto Salvatori told the newspaper. "It's just simply not possible for it to come from a spray."

Key said he sold about 20 bottles of deer-antler spray to LSU players before the regular-season meeting with Alabama that year. Key said he has also provided healing hologram "chips," which are stuck to the body, to Auburn players during their national-championship season and this year sold healing "bands" to players at Ole Miss and Georgia.

SI reported that the Alabama coaching staff was unaware of the meetings in the hotel room.

Key said he has initially reached out to many of his athlete clients through Facebook and Twitter. He would not comment on which players at which schools he sold deer-antler spray to this season. Key said at certain points, the strength staffs at Alabama and LSU said they did not endorse his dealings with players.

"I'm not trying to get anyone in trouble," Key said. "The whole idea is to compete without cheating. We're not bad guys."

Key said several players from SEC schools he claims to have sold products to reached out to him on Tuesday.

"They wanted more product," he said.

[AlabamAlum]

It's simply adorable how you bolded what you thought were the heavy-hitting part.

lmao

[Jungle Rat]

I drank deer piss once by accident.

[KeviNole]

Weird shit happens when you're blowing wild animals.

[dave_rickart]

What happens in Nebraska.... stays in Nebraska

[Professor Tiger]

Congrats to Alabama on another superb recruiting class.

[The Gray Ghost]

All the more bg/tc to attract closer NCAA scrutiny with.

[Professor Tiger]

Hardly. Saban already put the NCAA on probation. If Emmert even utters the words "deer antler spray" or "T-Town Menswear," Saban will give him the death penalty. The NCAA is already a repeat offender.

[GBJs]

The all powerful REC.

Do not underestimate.