The League does not have the power to fire employees of individual teams. They do not work for the NFL. Only the teams themselves can fire their employees.
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Maybe it was only during the extreme circumstances of the lockout that this applied, but I believe that the NFL did state that any team employee who violated the lockout in regards to communicating with players could be fired by them. There was something of this nature in place because I remember being outraged that the NFL would have the power to fire people they neither pay nor employ.

In all fairness couldn’t the same be said about the owners, coaches, fans in Minnesota?

You bring Libby into it, I refute your leftist nonsense with a fact, and you delete my post.

One way to make your point resonate, I suppose.

Not very honest.

The League does not have the power to fire employees of individual teams. They do not work for the NFL. Only the teams themselves can fire their employees.
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Fair enough. I stand corrected. Although ultimately my point remains the same. The system is still protecting the ole boys club in that sense. If any of us worked for a franchise and the franchise’s parent org conducted an investigation in which we lied. How likely would we be to just get a suspension? This is a major integrity issue that they tried to cover up. The rest of us would get fired. Those responsible should get fired. If it’s the Saints that have to do it, then it should be the Saints that do it. FWIW, I have no issue with the Saints. I actually like them. But this is where an organization has to take a stand. Bounties on player injuries. Come on……. Everyone involved knew that was wrong.

I can’t figure why his gambling associations meant more…it would be just like the no fun league to take GW life’s career away and reward a lying piece of trash like Vick to go on fixing games like he did last year

This is all just a PR mountain out of molehill situation.

It’s funny how all the Nancies in the media are acting like this is genocide, while players are blowing it off like it isn’t a big deal. Wonder why that is.

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Hey look, another Saints fan in stage 1 of the 5 stages of grief.

The only players that have spoken publicly are former or current Saints, and all they’ve done is deny it ever happened. which flies in the face of rational thought. The other players are being smart and not saying a word for fear of their teams being investigated for the same thing and putting them too on the chopping block.

Bottom line here is that there is already a RULE for this sort of thing and that it shouldn’t be done. The Saints lied about breaking the rule and now they must face the consequences.

On a related but different thought: I can now see why Brees wants more cash to play for the Saints! He will get killed by bounties if the league sweeps this under the rug.

Favre was the target… and suggests there were bounties on him in the NFC Championship game. All agreed that something needed to be done to protect the QB’s against such an idea. NFL begins it’s investigation but prays that there is no “negative” findings. Wait… hold everything Favre… in the year with the Jets and had his Sextgate scandal… he wants to play another year… so he defends the bounties as simply agressive play and the League agrees to put off the sextgate probe and subsequent actions. Could it be or do I just watch too much “Person of Interest”?

This is a competition, a sport. This is not martial arts. Even then, maiming someone is unacceptable, it goes against the purpose of competition.

This is not a war between two countries, in which we accept that harming others is acceptable to protect ourselves or others. Either way the defending factor is the most important line of all.

Sport is not a spectacle of changing the quality of life of another human being by way of intentional injury. Sport is a competition of pushing the strengths of not only yourself but your opponent. Facing head on in equal challenge to prove your sheer determination, effort and will are the deciding factor. Sport is the most respectable of competition, it is our bodies in competion. There is a reason it mentally, physically and visually captivates us.

I hope the NFL takes this serious, and reacts more serious. To raise children that harming others for any reason imaginable is acceptable is unacceptable. Football is a great sport, it teaches our children to be strong and have equally strong values. What the NFL does is looked up to by everyone, and sets the standard for all organized football. Lets see them be strong and find a way to remind everyone it was about being strong, not weak, that made this sport. It is being strong, not weak, that will make this sport the greatest on earth.

I get that a bounty system builds team unity

I get that the majority use them

But it’s against the rules, the Saints got caught, and massive covering-up and lying to league officials will and should be answered harshly.

And reality police, nope the league sure can’t fire employees.
But the league can ban them from the NFL so Im not sure what your point is.