I know NOTHING about sports. However, wasn’t there a problem w/ Pete Rose (I think that was him, the one not allowed into the baseball HOF) betting on games he was playing in?
Perhaps not the same thing here, but to have “bounties” to purposefully injure a player out of a game seems ungamely to me.....as to injuring a player on purpose.
They both seem to play along the lines of “throwing” a game.
Back in the mid 80’s, the Redskins quarterback (Theismann) was very badly injured in a MNF game vs the NY Giants. Career-ending. He’d been injured by Lawrence Taylor. You could see the pain in Taylor’s face and physical reaction while Theismann was on the ground to think he’d caused that injury. It sure didn’t look ilke Taylor was thinking in terms of any ‘bonus’ for taking Theismann out.
NO cheers, unfortunately.