Bill Romanowski has publicly stated that he stayed ahead of the NFL's drug policy during his 16-year career, always taking nutritional supplements that the league had not yet banned. "As soon as they found out that something could be tested for, I stopped taking it. I didn't want that embarrassment, but I pushed that envelope ethically and morally because if I could take something that would help me perform better and it wasn't on the list, I was going to take it," Romanowski said in an interview published Tuesday in the Rocky Mountain News. "I had two criteria: Would it hurt me? And would I test positive?" "In the end, there's been some embarrassment at what I had to deal with," he said.