Chiefs' Bowe Gives Background on Suspension

by Joel Thorman on Jan 3, 2010 7:46 AM CST in 2009 Campaign Comment 14 comments

Kent Babb has a fine article in the Kansas City Star this morning regarding the steps that led up to Chiefs WR Dwayne Bowe being suspended weeks 10-13 for taking a banned NFL substance.

Babb tells us that after reporting to camp overweight, Bowe asked his grandmother to send him something for the cramps he had been getting from all the running in Haley's camp. His grandmother unknowingly sent him water pills, not "cramp medicine". Bowe quickly lost nine pounds.

"I was real light," he said. "I was like, ‘How did I lose all this weight?’ "

Realizing something might be up, Bowe called his grandmother to make sure she sent him medicine for his cramps, and not a diuretic. Neither were sure what he took.

Weeks later, Bowe had a note in his locker.

"Instead," Babb writes, "he was told that a drug test from training camp had been flagged. It had shown traces of a substance among those banned by the NFL. Bowe says he offered to take another test but that he was told the league would make a decision based on the one he’d submitted in camp.

"Bowe was suspended four weeks, and despite a season in which he’d shown progress, the third-year wideout now had more questions to answer. Serious questions now about his judgment, maturity and training regimen."

If you've got a few minutes, check out Babb's full story at the Kansas City Star.

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If I was Bowe, I don't think I'd be telling this story

He’s a professional athlete with access to a training staff and I would guess a nutritionist, but he turns to his grandmother for something, doesn’t even know what it is yet he still takes it? Doesn’t seem too smart.

by bh13 on Jan 3, 2010 7:52 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

agreed

throw grandma under the bus!!!
man up d bowe

by kcstevesportsfan on Jan 3, 2010 11:07 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

D.Bowe

Next time you have cramps { Tell the trainer & team doctor ; Ok }

by 65tosspowertrap on Jan 3, 2010 7:56 AM CST reply actions 1 recs

I can understand not wanting to tell the team

The way Todd was treating guys hurting like pussies. I still don’t buy the story but it isnt that part I dont buy

Predictions for 2009:

The Chiefs will regret cutting LJ

Bowe's numbers regress due to lack of decent QB play.

The D gets better in the second half but still is plagued by big plays

Cassel looks more like the guy Pioli almost cut in the '08 preseason instead of the franchise QB he hoped he would be when he traded him for

Chiefs 3-13

by bonesjackson on Jan 3, 2010 8:36 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I call bigtime BS!!

So many holes in this story I don’t know where to begin. It makes the Manny excuses sound downright compelling:

1) This wasn’t a case of one missed pill. Dwayne forgets to mention how long it took him to lose nine pounds on diuretics. If granny was missing her pills for that long she would have gone into heart failure (essentially while dwayne loses 9 lbs she would gain at least half that in water), I know he said one pill, but granny didn’t send him one pill in the mail. She sent the bottle. One diuretic pill wouldn’t make you lose 9 lbs.

2) As bh13 mentions, in this day and age, you don’t take meds not knowing what they are without supervision of your trainer. I wouldn’t even eat granny’s chicken noodle soup let alone her unmarked pill bottle.

3) Its just supposed to be sheer coindence that the one mistaken pill that Dwayne takes happens to produce weight loss, the exact thing that he is trying to do?!

4) As soon as you found out that you took (accidentally) a substance on the banned list (these players know that diuretics are on the list), you would tell your trainer about the accident, not wait for it to show up in the urine.

This just doesn’t come close to adding up. I had a modicum of respect for Dwayne – he seems to take the lesson on the chops and move on. This is a step back, and kent babb should call him out on it.

by paxi on Jan 3, 2010 8:06 AM CST reply actions 1 recs

Paxi does it once say that it was 1 pill? Yes a major screw up and expect him to be smarter next time. I think your making it sound much worse than it already is

by karkz86 on Jan 3, 2010 8:28 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

yes, he says that twice!

“"It was one pill," he says, and he won’t stop for five minutes.”

“Bowe says he took only the one pill, nervous after the drastic weight loss.”

by paxi on Jan 3, 2010 8:40 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

K sorry much agreed I’m little more ticked off now after reading the article didn’t have the time little earlier.

by karkz86 on Jan 3, 2010 8:48 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I'm more amused than ticked off

throwing granny under the bus just seems kind of low (it was the fault of my old demented grandmother that I failed the drug test – thats a new one!)

by paxi on Jan 3, 2010 8:51 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

True its some what amusing but also own up to it I mean I’d be somewhat okay with him being stupid enough to say oh I asked her for cramp pills but mostly as you said like he lost 9 pounds off 1 pill. Why try to come clean and then lie about it

by karkz86 on Jan 3, 2010 8:53 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Wow. And people whine about newspapers dying?

It’s articles like that one that are killing them.

Glad I came, just wish I hadn't stayed so long.

by Warden11 on Jan 3, 2010 9:16 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

Grandma got run over by a reindeer

…some people say there’s no such thing as Santa,but as for me and Grandpa we believe.

“Grandma” is streat lingo for dealer folks.Come on, next people will say taking “horse” is being an animal thief or taking “smack” is 2.7 at a bar (wait,nevermind) :)

Bill Parcell’s: "You are what your record says you are."

"My job is not to collect talent, but to build a team. Individuals make the Pro Bowl. Teams win championships. That is our goal."—Chiefs GM Scott Pioli.

by THE_TRUTH on Jan 3, 2010 9:36 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

Always someone elses fault

Had cramps because Haley was making us run so much.
Granny sent me the wrong pills.

Sometimes you just need to take your punishment and keep the story to yourself.

I asked Granny to send me something for my headaches and I noticed I had an erection for the next week of practice. Granny must have sent me Viagra and not Alieve?

by vincent2668 on Jan 3, 2010 10:27 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

I'll agree with that Vincent.

Honestly, this whole ordeal doesn’t change my outlook of Bowe much I don’t care much about the story even though, he would have been better off just leaving it as a dead issue.

As long as it doesn’t happen again, I don’t care either way.

by Chiefsfan1970 on Jan 3, 2010 10:52 AM CST reply actions 0 recs