Posted on 03/21/2012 6:36:45 PM PDT by BOBWADE
Meting out unprecedented punishment for a crush-for-cash bounty system that targeted key opposing players, the NFL suspended New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton without pay for next season and indefinitely banned the team's former defensive coordinator, Gregg Williams.
Payton is the first head coach suspended by the league for any reason, accused of trying to cover up a system of extra cash payouts that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell on Wednesday called "particularly unusual and egregious" and "totally unacceptable."
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The NFL giveth, and the NFL taketh away...they gave the Saints their SB to help heal the “Chocolate City” after Katrina....now they must pay the piper.
The more rules the better, that’s been my experience. </sarc>
>>Looks like they only let the coaches from the east cheat. Film your opponents during practices? get a free pass and the NFL attacks the wistleblower. Pay your players for taking out the opponent? Get a years worth of unpaid vacation. Sucks to be the Saints. <<
Looks like spying on your wife is OK. Assault someone and put them in the hospital? That should also OK.
Do you hear yourself?
I think the worst is yet to come, because I believe the harshest penalties of all may be imposed on the Saints organization.
they should at least make ‘em change their name.
Perhaps they can take back the name “Aints”
Perhaps they can take back the name “Aints”
Perhaps they can take back the name “Aints”
Perhaps they can take back the name “Aints”
They went after the Coach, now they need to go after the players.
1. Disciplinary action against the players would be covered under the NFL Players Association labor agreement, so there are some limits to what the NFL could do to them.
2. I'm sure some of these players were the ones who provided the commissioner's office with a lot of the information that was used to come down on the coaches.
3. Coaches are supposed to be leaders, so they're always going to be held to a higher standard than their players.
All of which are true, but I’ve watched football since the very first Superbowl, and know that when you step out on the field, it ain’t the Coach doing the job, it’s the players.
They know who the Bounty Hunters were, and should suspend them as well without pay. IMHO
C’mon, man. Go for 5.
A list of "targets" was released. So when Brett Favre and Kurt Warner or anyone else on the list shows up with a lawsuit in the future, what leg would the NFL have to stand on if they did nothing when there is proof they knew. It isn't an issue of "everyone does it". This is an issue of getting caught and the NFL being forced to act. While we all may or may not love the sport of football, the NFL is, first and foremost a business and a brand. They can't have something involving this level of potential injury become public and just let it go. Not if they want to protect themselves from future lawsuits.
Goodell is working with the Player’s Association on this.
Since the goal of the Player’s Association is to protect the players, and the Player’s Association is also potentially liable for litigation, I would think that the Player’s Association will not have mercy on bounty hunters.
I remember the hit on Brett Farve that ended in an ankle injury, probably costing the Vikings a post-season win. Throw the bastards in jail for intentional criminal assault, bar them from anything to do with football for life and fine them into a level of poverty that would make Obama blush.
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