What are your thoughts on the punishment the NFL gave the saints for their bounty system?
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I wish they would have gotten a worse punishment, especially after finding out they had a 5k bounty on my guy Aaron Rodgers. To think those goons would be willing to go after his knees well after the ball was out of his hands. It’s disgusting. It’s one thing to play football, and hit players as hard as you can, but to do what the Saints did, and what other teams and players are coached to do is absolutely ridiculous. Hopefully this sets an example and stops the unnecessary cheap football.
Eat it
April 28, 2013 at 5:26 am
I really don’t care.
richard s
April 28, 2013 at 6:26 am
Thats Football ! Every team has been doing it for decades. Mark Schlereth even said so today on ESPN. Football is a tough and violent game, those who think this is so bad, go play jumprope.
Pootie
April 28, 2013 at 7:08 am
I like it, if I was Tom Benson I would fire Sean Payton, Mickey Loomis and everyone involved in this.
What’s up with the four thumbs downs? Tom Benson directed Mickey Loomis to stop the Bountygate and he and Sean Payton failed to do so, that is grounds for termination in my opinion.
Nick - Sox. Bears, Hawks, Bulls
April 28, 2013 at 7:22 am
Pootie, I highly doubt Schlereth said that his coaches were involved with it. The Saints had a whole system going… and they got spanked for it.
Sean Payton takes a year long nap… I love it!
Big Boss is a Badass
April 28, 2013 at 8:13 am
Two second round picks seems like a weak punishment considering the Patriots got docked a first rounder for Spygate. I think most fans would agree the bounty thing was a bit more serious.
However, the suspension of Saints coach Sean Payton for the entire season is a sign Roger Goodell has guts as a commissioner. I think it’s a move that almost guarantees something like this will never happen again….at least not on this scale.
Dallas Cowboys Fan Forever
April 28, 2013 at 8:27 am
Much to harsh. This stuff has gone on forever in the NFL. What is this the new politically correct pus8y league?
OH YEA!
April 28, 2013 at 9:12 am
The cover-up is always more worse than the crime — if coaches and players would have admitted their culpability to investigators, the penalties would have been a fraction of what came down (and the players have yet to be punished). Bounties are as old as the game, but this was a scenario that had run amok to deliberately injure players and not “cash pools” for sacks, INT’s, etc.
Zombie Birdhouse
April 28, 2013 at 9:23 am
Such is the nature of all competitiveness– it’s only a ‘foul’ if you get caught, *lol*. I wish it weren’t so, but, well, there’s the harsh truth of it. And it doesn’t matter what arena one is in: business, sports, even marriage, *sigh*. It would be lovely if people were self-governing, but they’re not. Which is why a society needs laws, (and sports-world needs rules and regulations), both carrying heavy penalties– to force people to behave with integrity.
Alas, the Players should not be held to the same kinds of penalties, (some penalty, yes; but nothing like the Owners, Management, or Coaches of the Franchises, i.e. STAFF, should receive). Why? Because Players are the worker-bees. They have little to no power, thus, are trapped between a rock and a hard-place. If they have so much integrity that they won’t carry-out these dirty deeds, they are frowned upon by Staff. If they cave-in and conduct themselves in this kind of ‘bounty-hunting’, they are rewarded financially, but their soul’s are ruined. It goes right back to: ‘What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his Soul’.
Because the Owners and Staff are holding the ‘Club Of Might’ over the heads of the Players, (financially and psychologically), with the constant threat of ‘benching, dismissal, trading, etc.’, the Players are actually being ‘terrorized’ by Staff; for that is exactly what ‘terrorism’ is: the threat of one’s health, (physically, economically, psychologically, spiritually), used as a barter to coerce compliance.
It’s all so disgusting; and has no place in this world. Alas, we don’t live in a perfect world, so, have to wait until these horrors raise their ugly heads; at which point leadership is supposed to nip this crap in the bud to get everyone back on the right track. Goodell was absolutely correct in his discipline of Payton and the others. It may not be popular, but Goodell’s responsibility is not to ‘popularity’, it’s to whether he understands the word ‘integrity’ and will back up such a stance even tho unpopular. That’s the job description.
It is exactly these harsh and shocking kinds of penalties that evolve a society and everything that goes on within that system. ‘Let Me Be Clear’, by Goodell, was a fantastic statement of: ‘This is the Ideal– break faith with that and reap the whirlwind’.
As for some sports writers saying Goodell ‘appeared’ spiteful, (for being lied to by the Saint’s), nothing could be further from the truth. ‘Lying’ is the insidious mechanism by which everyone gets away with everything. Being ‘lied to’ is the hideous hydra that engenders that ‘Break Of Faith’; that forces one to accept, (tho unwillingly), the fact that they are dealing with a person, (or people), who have compromised their integrity for the sake of ‘Gaining The Whole World’.
Lying IS NOT in the spirit of what we all hold ‘Sports’ to be in our hearts… a fair-and-square competition that boasts the best of our Players’ abilities– physically and soulfully. Which is exactly why our children so idolize their favourite Players. And when those Players, (and in this case, the Franchises as well), fall from Grace, they serve to dash all our faith in what can only be termed: ‘Cooperative Competition’—>
‘I want to win, but not at the deliberate expense of another’s demise’.
It’s that ‘Deliberate Expense Of Another’ that defines ‘Mean-Spiritedness’ in sports, (instead of the ‘Cooperative Competition’), that Goodell was speaking to… and rightfully so.
FaireMaiden
April 28, 2013 at 9:55 am