Feb 9th, 2010 | 2:55 pm |
Oakland Raiders Bill Romanowski during a playoff game against the New York Jets on Sunday January 12, 2003, in Oakland, CA. (Matt A. Brown/ICON SMI)
Update: Romo says on his Twitter page that he “wasn’t called in by the Redskins to be their Strength and Conditioning coach.”
Washington Redskins coach Mike Shanahan will interview former Denver Broncos linebacker Bill Romanowski for the teams Strength and Conditioning coaching job according to a report by Fox Sports’ Jay Glazer. This position is often filled by a person with a degree (often a masters) in exercise science or athletic training, Romanoski received his degree in Business Management from Boston College. But Romanoski is a health nut in many ways.
In a recent interview with the Sporting News, Romanowski said that if he were Commissioner of the NFL he’d make some changes to how athletes train.
“I would bring a much higher level of nutrition to the game,” Romanowski told the TSN. And I would bring a much higher level of care in the form of chiropractic, massage therapists, acupuncturists, hyberbaric chambers. I would bring this whole new paradigm of how to take care of the body that were things I was doing when I played that kept me in the league for 16 years, never missing a game. It’s funny. More and more, guys are doing the things I did. I would make a lot of these things mandatory.”
Romanowski is not only an owner of a sports nutritional company but also admitted to using steroids during his career.
In 2005, he told CBS News 60 minutes that he took about 100 supplements a day. He also said that he used steroids from 2001-2003, and he got them from Victor Conte, head of the supplement company BALCO, the same company that supplied Major League Baseball slugger Barry Bonds.
