Saints paid players to hurt foes

[mrklean]

Im happy to see vilma gone for a year

[mnviking28]

+1

[Musky Buck]

+2, at that level I hope you got the canaries to walk out the door and or take a stand, I coach defense in football, but I get the code of football, but take the head off or the knee out etc. Not happening in my speeches nor do the guys need to hear that, they give all they got, I can't ask for more and if a guy needs it I'll let him know defensive player number 12 wants your spot, if you want him to have it keep it up. I just can't believe how the Brady rule or whatever was in place and Favre took a throttling like he did, but that was just Viking voodoo like Gary Anderson missing in 1998.

[flipper]

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2012/05/09/former-viking-cris-carter-admits-to-bounty-hunting/

I guess I was right, Now let me hear how New Orleans was the only team that did it. I'm not saying it is good but this is the way it is and the way it has been for a good while

[PierBridge]

The big problem here is the confusion between the true and time-tested definition of Bounty and the current modern day Roger Goodel definition of Bounty.

Plus Chris Carter made up this story and now he's on multiple shows on TV because of it.

[RumRiverRat]

It is football.

The NFL is becoming too tame.

Eventually the NFL will become a flag football league.

It is truly a tragedy that Vilma is suspended for a year.

Not shocked at all the anger by all the people in here looking through purple colored glasses.

The NFL needs to be more violent.

[RumRiverRat]

There must be room for criminal charges in this.

You cannot be serious!??!?!?!!?

[RumRiverRat]

Flipper, I am not sure what you do for a living, but if one of your fellow employees put a bounty out for $50k to put you in the hospital, would that be ok to you? How about if it was put out for kids walking to school?

Worst comparison ever.

[Scott K]

There job is to make tackles, not to put someone in the hospital. If they put up rewards for the amount of tackles, great. Not for if you knock someone out of a game, or put them into a hospital, or end their careers. I think it is a good comparison.

On a side note, football has become a pansy sport, and isnt as fun to watch anymore.

[reinhard1]

i think the NFL players get well paid just to do their job. their job is not to injure fellow players on purpose, especialy getting paid extra to do so. i'm glad they banned the head coach for a year. as far as i'm concerned he doesn't belong in the NFL. to condone this paid bounty hunting is not being proffesional to say the least. good luck.

[mnviking28]

Are you serious? Purple colored glasses? A "tradgedy"?? Give me a break. Musky put it spot on. If you have ever played the game or been involved with the game, there is a "code". Hit the guy hard-absolutely. I agree 100%-but WITHIN THE RULES! To pay extra to end a guys season/career? Pretty soon you all you are going to have is a bunch of wanna be gang banger thugs like the NBA. That is the kind of garbage you want to watch? Vilma was WAY over the line. This isn't MMA. At least there you get a chance to defend yourself and are not allowed to use a helmet as a weapon. In MMA, you get to face who is coming after you and they don't get to hit you from your blindside. Some of these new rules on quarterbacks and recievers are a little over the top and I don't like them either, but obviously the league decided they were needed. I would be all for "repealing" some of these rules. But the bottom line is that Vilma got exactly what he deserved. He is a thug and deserves to be put out on the street.

[flipper]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/fo....html?hpt=hp_t1

Go Saints!

[LMITOUT]

Just one more thing remaining to make this completely overblown situation right:

[PierBridge]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/fo....html?hpt=hp_t1

Go Saints!

Go ahead and praise the Saints all you want. If you think these cheating clowns are off the hook you are sadly mistaken.

Now lets here some of the Saints ball washers address the current/ongoing DEA "DRUG ENFORCEMENT AGENCY" investigation into the Saints organizations illegal Drug dealings.

I'll hang up and listen!

[flipper]

Nice name calling by a moderator! Its too bad you're too ignorant to see the Saints aren't any different than any other team, they are just being made an example of.

[YiGGiN4SLoBS]

Greg Williams admitted to everything the NFL was accusing the saints of.... What the hell more proof do these idiots need to prove intent to injure?

[Scott M]

Either Gregg came clean or he got some kind of a deal to sign this: Williams admission letter

[LMITOUT]

Greg Williams admitted to everything the NFL was accusing the saints of.... What the hell more proof do these idiots need to prove intent to injure?

Ever hear of plea bargaining?

"Did you see all the video evidence of Saints trying to injure opposing players?", said no one ever.

[nofishfisherman]

Ever hear of plea bargaining?

"Did you see all the video evidence of Saints trying to injure opposing players?", said no one ever.

I wouldn't be surprised if his testimony was the bulk of the evidence against the players and that this statement opens the door to him being allowed back into the nfl (if a team wants to hire him) at some point.

Of course there was evidence of the Saints trying to injure an opposing player, nfc championship game will show that. The bulk of the plays were either flagged on the field or fined after the game or both. But of course you already knew that so I'm not sure why I wasted my time explaining it to you.

The issue is that the plays themselves aren't suspension worthy if they were just over aggressive plays. The suspensions come from the fact that the plays were tied to a specific bounty that was put out on Favre. Without the bounty the plays are fined and then are over with. But of course you knew that as well. Why am I even explaining this all again?

[LMITOUT]

Of course there was evidence of the Saints trying to injure an opposing player, nfc championship game will show that.

Um, no, there wasn't. Nothing more than we've seen in games for years.

[nofishfisherman]

Hmmmm ok, whatever you say LMITOUT.

[Musky Buck]

I'm kidding but did they slip the refs some $ thinking back to that Saints vs. Vikes game to go play a depleted Indy team for the title. Some of what Brett Favre took on was excessive. Vilma 10K to take farve out is being talked about again today. But whatever, football is very violent, the bounty may just help keep players focused throughout the game. For me tonight, #10 for the opponent, if we take him out we will win no doubt, if we don't they will win. So we'll try to slow him down with our best LB shadowing him all game.

[YiGGiN4SLoBS]

Plea bargaining? Williams admitted to everything way back when the NFL first brought about punishment coming. He fessed up right away and took responsibility for his actions. Unlike the entire rest of the saints organization.

[zepman]

He didn't have much choice...they had him on tape.

[FISHINGURU]

NFL is getting lame, we need more roids and bounties.