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A WARNING to the players perhaps? Next time, we might check you.

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DEA Agents Surprise NFL Teams With Drug Checks After Sunday Games

Federal drug enforcement agents showed up unannounced Sunday to check at least three visiting NFL teams' medical staffs as part of an investigation into former players' claims that teams mishandled prescription drugs.

There were no arrests, Drug Enforcement Administration spokesman Rusty Payne said Sunday. The San Francisco 49ers' staff was checked at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, after they played the New York Giants. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers' staff was checked at Baltimore-Washington International airport after playing the Redskins. The Seattle Seahawks, who played at Kansas City, confirmed via the team's Twitter account that they were spot-checked as well.

The operation was still ongoing, and other teams may be checked later Sunday, Payne said.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/1 ... 68268.html

I'm worried that Congress is going to get ahold of this and hold up the country's business for weeks while they haul the NFL into hearings about illegal prescription drug use, as they did with the Baseball steroids brouhaha. What I don't get is that the federalis are more concerned with not violating the civil rights of foreign nationals crossing our border, some of whom are associated with cartels and smuggling drugs, but when it is NFL teams illegally prescribing medicine to it's players, then it is something to do something about drugs. Go figure.