Smelling Salts NOT Banned by NFL - (updated scents!)

[boyst]

17 hours ago, PonyBoy said:

 

No, you're thinking of Bio Freeze that they spray on injured soccer players and then they majically get up once the foul is called. 

 

 

whenever i question my manhood and toughness i watch a little bit of soccer and feel so much better.

[machine gun kelly]

23 hours ago, MJS said:

If it basically does nothing, then the players don't need it. Personally, I think it is a bad look having players on the sideline sniffing salts all game long and littering the ground with those packages. Just go play football.

 

They literally have oxygen masks on the sidelines for players. They don't need salts for the oxygen boost.

 

MJS, respectfully coming from someone who has taken smelling salts or amonia thousands of times, it is the best opportunity to get a whiff of internal adrenaline and oxygen jolt in you’re body before an explosion which is what you do when you’re trying to squat completely far below the knee 600 lbs. at weighing 175lbs.

 

You need every natural advantage you can get for as close as you can your body to perfection for yourself for 10 seconds.  We never practiced with this additive.  Only meets.  I’m just telling you it works and is legal.  They misreported it.  The team will no longer supply the salts, but they can bring in themselves so maybe Kittle had bad information and was ticked off.  I don’t blame him at all.  He’ll, no one ever bought me s,Ellington salts.  I had to get on my own.

 

The other thing you can do is take Primetime mist before a lift.  It works similarly and is otc.

21 hours ago, transient said:

When I was reading your post, competing for 17 years, history 27-44 years ago, I started to wonder if you might be being generous in your definition of middle age... then I stumbled across the spleen comment (this is TBD... everything affects the spleen. It's the most important organ in a football players body. Many players have had season ending spleen injuries, with several of them not living to tell the tale) and I have to ask, respectfully, are you sure you're not knocking the the door of old-mandom? 

Transient, I’m 57.  I completed from 17-33.  I represented my team in the US Championships several times.  The other years simply the NYS, Southern States, Southeastern US, the FL yearly.  Anyway, I know your kidding, and no not yelling at anyone on my lawn or at the clouds.  Have a good day friend.

[machine gun kelly]

2 hours ago, Sierra Foothills said:

 

 

 

At the risk of incurring your hatred, I hereby nominate you for "The Winner of the Internet" on this day, Thursday, August 7, 2025.

 

Congratulations good Sir!

 

That business having been done, I'll devote the remainder of this post to answering questions arising from this new and confounding NFL policy banning the distribution of "smelling salts" by the clubs.

 

 

No.

 

NFL coaches are prohibited from vaping while in the playing field area and during television interviews. The NFL's policy states that players and other league employees, including coaches and officials, must not use alcohol or tobacco products (including vaping products) in these specific locations. 

 

 

Yes.

 

Also, the shin bone is connected to the trom bone.

 

 

Not exactly.

 

"Huffing" is the term used for inhaling chemicals from a cloth and this dangerous practice requires no "hidden pockets."

 

Going forward, huffing will likely be the method of choice for NFL players (and Adam Gase) when dosing ammonia.

 

 

Possibly.

 

The effects of smelling salts (ammonia) on the spleen is not a well-researched area, therefore pathologists are hesitant to link ammonia exposure to splenic disorders although some research has shown a correlation with hyperammonemia and splenomagaly.

 

 

 

No. See below.

 

 

Yes.

 

While there's sure to be a workaround for taking smelling salts (see "huffing"' above), it's unlikely to involve the blue medical tent.

 

At the risk of getting @machine gun kelly aroused, the tent (and its associated poles) is only erected for medical examinations/concerns... such as for a spleen palpation or to treat an overdose of sildenafil, for instance.

 

 

No.

 

NFL rules state that league-approved energy drinks be either ingested from league-approved cups or administered intravenously by a licensed physician.

 

 

Yes.

 

In cases where a player is suspected of violating the prohibition on ammonia, NFL medical protocols require that either the back judge or the side judge take a swab of the suspected player's armpit to be used in a hypernatremia test. A blood serum sample may also be taken in cases where hypernatremia is indicated or suspected.

 

 

On the discussion of janitors (and more generally workers) and ammonia, it's well-known among scholars of the industrial revolutions that ammonia was pumped into the ventilation duct work of factories and mills in order  to increase worker productivity. Forensic pathologists in conjunction with forensic anthropologists examining the exhumed remains of 19th-century wool-spinning workers in Northern Wales have not proven a link between chronic ammonia exposure and splenal disorders.

 

I hope this post clarifies some of your questions.

 

Now that’s funny.  You took a lot of tie. For all these replies bud.  I always enjoy your posts friend.  Enjoy the day.

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

2 hours ago, DrDawkinstein said:

NFL going to a BYOA model. Roger is cheap!

I wonder how much of the decision for teams not to provide the inhalants is somehow tied into potential litigation in future years regarding how concussions are handled.

[DrDawkinstein]

Just now, Ridgewaycynic2013 said:

I wonder how much of the decision for teams not to provide the inhalants is somehow tied into potential litigation in future years regarding how concussions are handled.

 

AB$OLUTELY

 

Just like every decision and rule the NFL implements. It's to protect the shield and make/keep as much money as possible.

 

I was questioning all this until the concussion thing was mentioned. Makes total sense why they would stop providing them.

[boyst]

7 minutes ago, DrDawkinstein said:

 

AB$OLUTELY

 

Just like every decision and rule the NFL implements. It's to protect the shield and make/keep as much money as possible.

 

I was questioning all this until the concussion thing was mentioned. Makes total sense why they would stop providing them.

i had not thought of this but both of you are spot on. it makes sense like that.

 

if guys are purposely playing through concusion and circumventing the protocols that's one thing, but for teams to enable smelling salts is supporting it with teams and staff likely knowing why they do it.

[UConn James]

Say it with me — Tax-deductible smelling salts. Who said there’s nothing new under the sun?!
 

I’m sure the NFLPA will require a corresponding bump in player contracts to cover the cost of guys buying their own. Perhaps news of this is what prompted Cook to demand the $15M. These guys’ families need to eat, you know, and now the NFL is taking food off their plates! 😋

[Matt_In_NH]

This smells funny

[transient]

1 hour ago, machine gun kelly said:

Transient, I’m 57.  I completed from 17-33.  I represented my team in the US Championships several times.  The other years simply the NYS, Southern States, Southeastern US, the FL yearly.  Anyway, I know your kidding, and no not yelling at anyone on my lawn or at the clouds.  Have a good day friend.

Yeah, just some good-natured ribbing. For context, I'm 53... I'm pretty sure after rounding the bend on 50 that I've started knocking on the door of old-mandom, myself. Things that I used to do routinely now come with costs that either they didn't used to, or that I'm just a lot less willing to pay. 

[blacklabel]

On 8/5/2025 at 7:03 PM, GoBills808 said:

ban smelling salts fine legalize cocaine

give and take

nflpa is so useless

 

"C'mon man, we gotta take the field."

 

"Be right there!" *schnnnnoooorrrkk*

 

"Why you late?!"

 

"I uh, misplaced my helmet for a second."

[nuklz2594]

[DrDawkinstein]

On 8/5/2025 at 7:03 PM, GoBills808 said:

ban smelling salts fine legalize cocaine

give and take

nflpa is so useless

 

Got us to 4 super bowls, in a row!

[Sierra Foothills]

5 hours ago, Just in Atlanta said:

Update:

Players can use smelling salts as long as the smelling salts are their smelling salts. Teams, however, cannot supply said smelling salts. 

...

 

It's on like a mofo. 

Yes and I have a feeling that the sideline cleanup crews are gonna be cleaning up just as many ampules.

 

[transient]

6 hours ago, Sierra Foothills said:

The effects of smelling salts (ammonia) on the spleen is not a well-researched area, therefore pathologists are hesitant to link ammonia exposure to splenic disorders although some research has shown a correlation with hyperammonemia and splenomagaly.

So you're saying there's no definitive proof, but there may be a trend, that hyperammonemia makes the spleen great again? 

[HIT BY SPIKES]

THIS IS A VICTORY FOR AROMAS EVERYWHERE!!!

 

 

 

[Sierra Foothills]

2 minutes ago, transient said:

So you're saying there's no definitive proof, but there may be a trend, that hyperammonemia makes the spleen great again? 

Yes.

 

For too long, the pancreas and the spleen have been looked down upon as second-class organs when, in fact, they should be rightly viewed as organs of the same stature and esteem as the liver and kidneys.

 

Make the Spleen great again!!!

 

[behind a post WMS69]

On 8/6/2025 at 9:58 AM, Fleezoid said:

Ummm, how do you test for smelling salt abuse?

 

 

 

 

 

You cant really dust for vomit.

[machine gun kelly]

20 hours ago, transient said:

Yeah, just some good-natured ribbing. For context, I'm 53... I'm pretty sure after rounding the bend on 50 that I've started knocking on the door of old-mandom, myself. Things that I used to do routinely now come with costs that either they didn't used to, or that I'm just a lot less willing to pay. 

I know brother.  I’ve known you long enough to know when you’re joking.  It was pretty funny.  As far as health, I still workout 5 days a week, and feel healthy doing it.  I know I’m not 30 anymore, but that’s ok.  I’d like to think I’m a little more wise now, than 27 years ago.

[HOUSE]

So now I read today that the sale of smelling salt has doubled in the last 10 days, since its now "illegal "in the NFL..

I will never understand people 

[nuklz2594]