Kevin and Pat Williams, guilty or not?

[FRPLG]

Originally Posted by Angry

FRPLG, if you are looking for a dietary supplement that doesn't have any banned substances within it, you're going to look at the nutrition facts page on that supplement. If that nutrition facts page does not contain a banned substance, then you are willing to take it, and therefore, trust the label.

The Williams' did their research on the supplement, on the banned drug was not present, only to find out later that it was. It is not their fault.

They ingested it themselves. Whether they knew or not doesn't take away the fact that they ingested on their own volition. To me ignorance isn't an excuse. I don't have a bad opinion of them but at the end of the day they took a banned substance. They should suffer the consequences. Now a lot of my feelings are mitigated by the fact that the league knew about this particular supplement and didn't tell players. To me, in that case because they failed to communicate properly, it totslly negates the players guilt. I'd just drop this if I were the league. But for me, in the future, if players take a banned substance they should reap the consequences regardless of intent or knowledge.