Two Minnesota Vikings football players, defensive linemen to be exact, are attempting to overturn an NFL suspension. The two men, Kevin Williams and Pat Williams, are claiming that because they are employees of an organization that is based in Minnesota they are protected by the Minnesota state law about drug screening. The question remains, should sports drug-testing override state drug-testing statutes.

Both men were found during a test to have taken Bumetanide, which is a masking agent for steroids. According to the rules laid out by the team, the men should be subject to a four-game ban because of the drug.

The men are both claiming that they are not on steroids, but that instead, the drug was taken unknowingly because it is in a weight-loss supplement (StarCaps), however the label of the supplement did not specify Bumetanide in its ingredients. The men are also claiming that the NFL knew about the Bumetanide drug in the weight-loss supplements and failed to warn them before they used it.

Depending on how this case turns out it could have major implications for the NHL, NBA and the Major League Baseball sports.

What do you think? Should game laws regulate drug testing, or should state laws?