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Football: Saints bounty program
Posted by: Ted King
Date: March 03, 2012 09:43AM
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New Orleans Saints players and at least one assistant coach maintained a bounty pool of up to $50,000 the last three seasons to reward game-ending injuries inflicted on opposing players, including Brett Favre and Kurt Warner, the NFL said Friday. "Knockouts" were worth $1,500 and "cart-offs" $1,000, with payments doubled or tripled for the playoffs.

The NFL said the pool amounts reached their height of $50,000 or more in 2009, the year the Saints won the Super Bowl.

The Saints "bounty" story is worse than the Patriots' "Spygate" incident, and New Orleans and Gregg Williams should be severely penalized, writes John Clayton.

If the Saints were out to harm others and team officials did nothing, look for Roger Goodell to throw the book at the Saints, writes Pat Yasinskas.

Rams defensive coordinator Gregg Williams is known for his aggressive defenses. Mike Sando looks at what allegations that Williams was privy to a "bounty" system could mean for his new team.

The league said between 22 and 27 defensive players were involved in the program and that it was administered by defensive coordinator Gregg Williams, with the knowledge of coach Sean Payton.


Edit: Oops, meant to post this on the "Deals" side.



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Re: Football: Saints bounty program
Posted by: RgrF
Date: March 03, 2012 11:52AM
The consensus among most football writers seems to be that this has been unspoken aspect of football since before Lombardi days. The only twist here is actually the hanging of a specific price tag and talking about it.
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Re: Football: Saints bounty program
Posted by: davester
Date: March 03, 2012 12:03PM
This supports the patented davester definition of what american football actually is. I quote myself here:

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In american football, what they seem to have done is taken soccer, removed all of the regular playing time and replaced it with commercials and big guys standing around scratching their butts, legalized all the fouls, provided protective equipment so that the fouls don't hurt anybody, then distilled the entire between commercial parts of the game down to nonstop fouls.

I guess they'll be needing some extra protective equipment now that some teams have discovered that with concerted effort they can destroy the bodies and careers of the star opposing players. This being the US, perhaps loaded guns will soon be permitted equipment.



"So be proud to be a decent American instead of just a w'anker whipping up fear!" - Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland



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Re: Football: Saints bounty program
Posted by: vision63
Date: March 03, 2012 01:18PM
Actually they took soccer and made it entertaining.
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Re: Football: Saints bounty program
Posted by: Filliam H. Muffman
Date: March 03, 2012 01:51PM
Not a new situation, I have been hearing about bounty programs like this since before John Matuszak got drafted.


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Re: Football: Saints bounty program
Posted by: Ted King
Date: March 03, 2012 02:31PM
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Filliam H. Muffman
Not a new situation, I have been hearing about bounty programs like this since before John Matuszak got drafted.

If that is true, then this is as good a time as any to stop it. The NFL says they looked to see if other teams were actually putting bounties on players on other teams and did not find evidence of it. If they do come upon such evidence of other teams also doing so, then they should go after those teams as well.
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Re: Football: Saints bounty program
Posted by: Acer
Date: March 03, 2012 04:35PM
Meanwhile, over at the NHL...
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Re: Football: Saints bounty program
Posted by: Seacrest
Date: March 03, 2012 06:41PM


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Re: Football: Saints bounty program
Posted by: haikuman
Date: March 03, 2012 08:02PM
Fanatical coaches and players are currently ruining and diminishing football as a "sport" imho ymmv
The league, the officiating, all concerned, there is blame to be shouldered by everyone for permitting
this to evolve and continue.
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Re: Football: Saints bounty program
Posted by: btfc
Date: March 03, 2012 11:56PM
"Meanwhile, over at the NHL..."






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Re: Football: Saints bounty program
Posted by: Lux Interior
Date: March 05, 2012 03:18AM
Soccer is fun for kids.

With adults playing, they all become drama queens who roll around the pitch crying like babies trying to draw fouls.
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