Krangthebrain said:
Because it is an amphetamine like substance, ephedra gets out of your system rather quickly, around 10-12 hours. It's such a toxic substance that your body rids itself of it quickly.
Drugs like ecstasy, cocaine, heroin, etc. all get out your system within a day or so, since all are such toxic substances. Marijuana doesn't, since your body can easily handle even high amounts of THC and the other associated chemicals.
Stringer probably took some ripped fuel, and by the time he died, his body had already metabolised it.
That was the time where the story started to "Fall apart". They didn't come out and say she thinks the Vikings planted it, they just sort of put that thought in your mind. There were no traces of it in his body, his wife then comes on and says he wasn't using it to her knowledge. "Could he have started using it without you knowing?" "NO" she said Kory called her the night before from camp to explain his vomiting in case his wife saw it on tv and got worried, told her about all the ridicule, told her he was "proud" of the fact he made it through the practice etc. In other words she said IF he'd been on ephedra, he would have told her then.
They had the VIkings trainer(ex or current I don't recall) and he said Stringer had always had a weight problem and it was his opinion that Korey was working very hard to lose weight and simply overworked himself into a heat stroke. Absolutely no question that Stringer has some blame in it too.
The one thing I did absolutely agree with was his wife pointing out how naive it is to say "he should have been drinking". If the situation was how she described it, they were basically put in a situaiton where any player that had trouble with the heat, was called a wuss, the exact OPPOSITE of what you want to do in that situation.
They had a US Today reporter on teh show too, he had a bunch of photos of Stringer he took that day, he said he noticed early on something was wrong, his eyes looked glazed over, he was "out of step with the team" all day, he seemed to be unable to stay focused. He caught him twice collapsed on the ground. That's where it became hard for me to not think the staff in Minnesota had some learning to do, if a reporter can literally show you photos of this guy collapsed on the field eyes glazed over, you have to wonder why none of the trainers noticed until it was too late?
I think we can all relate to such a situation from HS, I had a coach send me back into a game after a knee injury saying "put some ice on it you're going back in next timeout." Well a year later I found out that injury was a partially torn patellar tendon, but without a trained competent trainer on the bench, how was my coach supposed to know that? It hurt but not enough for me to realize it wasn't just twisted, so I played. Anybody who played sports understands the "pressure" to be tough.
Jim O thanks for the post I figured the Cards would be on top of this if any team was given the weather in Arizona.
