Romanowski pops pills - and then opponents.(SPORTS)

Byline: Dan Daly, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

SAN DIEGO - Here comes Raiders ruffian Bill Romanowski with his portable pharmacy, his suitcase-sized tackle box of supplements. Want some help carrying that, Romo? Don't want you getting a hernia just a few days before the Super Bowl.

Inside the box are big pills and little pills, round pills and oblong pills, white pills and yellow pills - each in its own compartment. These aren't take two and call me in the morning pills, they're more like take two and go clothesline a tight end pills. By the end of the day, Romanowski will have swallowed more than 30 of them; they help him maintain his edge as, uh, the NFL's most crazed linebacker.

Every now and then, he checks his watch as if he's …