This bounty business is a non story. How many starters from the opposing teams were taken out of the game in the past three seasons? My point is the bounties were ineffective. The Saints had a mediocre defensive team and a mediocre defensive coach that couldn’t motivate his players.

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If you think legally taping from an illegal part of the field is on par with this, you should switch to golf.

Would it be okay if college boosters paid players for injuring opponents?

Would it be okay for parents to fund payments to high school kids for injuring opponents?

Would it be okay all defensive players in the NFL or the NFLPA to fund a program where cash payments are paid to anyone who can knock an opposing QB out of a game?

Of course not…..the answer is obvious and only an idiot would try to justify this behavior. The Saints coaching staff was wrong and the Saints players were wrong…..all of them will be severely punished and they should be punished. It’s hard enough to stay healthy in the NFL without some moron trying to take out your knees so he can get an extra $1,000 bonus.

Roger Goodell is furious because he does not understand the sport over which he presides – he showed that in Spygate by refusing to understand league bylaws (which showed Belichick was well within his game rights to videotape from the sidelines) and now he shows it by treating legitimate football hitting as some kind of criminal act (and not knowing the difference between clean hits and dirty hits).

What profound jerks. You don’t know squat. Those are your wishes based upon how you DON’T want to face the Saints in 2012.

The suspensions will be staggered. The fines will be significant but not so much that any fan would notice. So get a grip and wait for the other shoe to fall as YOUR team gets called up for the same damn thing.

What morons.

You guys are just reaching. Some pretty irrational crap going on here.

This is about the players and the game.

Wonder if college football fans would like Goodell to take over administrating that?

What about the NBA?

How about if Goodell replaced the nutbar at FIFA? The game would probably pick up 3 billion in revenue in the first year and the on field product would probably improve immensely.

The NFL is the best sports league in the world for a reason. I don’t see Goodell as the problem; I see nutjob yahoo’s who react without thinking as the only problem. That and the owner of the Cleveland Browns.

Really please, why Washington hasn’t Gregg been in Buffalo, Tennessee, Jacksonville as well…see the problem is they helped N.O. win a Super Bowl after Katrina put them on the map and on a pedestal like they were holier than though, and then Who Dey just went crazy…N.O. is getting this treatment because they were the team that got busted investigated and told to stop and continued to do so…NOT Washington nor Buffalo, Tennessee or Jacksonville….

Imagine what would happen if it was James Harrison who offered the $10K rather than Vilma.

And Gregg Williams…say hello to the unemployment line!

OK, I get it.

I am always looking for things to complain about when it comes to “the man.”

Tell me once again, why is he bad?

I want to dislike him and be angry about his changes.

I guess his changes to the some of the hits and tackles have fundementally changed the game of football. OK, that is bad.

But, I don’t see the change that all of you say you see. I occasionally notice a Linebacker or Safety pull up a little on the tackle. In some cases, possibly I notice that maybe he took the ballcarrier down a little differently than he would have a few years ago. But, I don’t see a fundamental change in the game. So, I need your enlightenment.

The game of football actually still looks the same -at least to the people yelling and screaming in my living room and me.

I imagine that Steeler fan misses Harrison smashing his forehead into Josh Cribb’s temple or blindside smashing Massaquois head off, but Harrison still provides that cheap shot Steeler fan has grown to love – reference ripping his helmet into the back of McCoy’s head. I’m trying to figure out what Goodell has done to victimize Harrison and Steeler nation. They are so tough – as long as the opponent isn’t looking. Now we have the Saints and Redskin fans telling us how “real” football is being ruined by this spoilsport.

I played football. I’ve been pancaked, blasted, and actually delivered some good hits. I really appreciate a great, solid tackle.

The issue of using the rules to make the game safer for the guys playing it seems like a good idea to me. I don’t wan’t to see the game change, but I can’t argue that the game has really changed that much. Certainly not enough to make me concerned.

So, real man’s football requires helmet to helmet hits. Requires Harrison cheapshots. Requires taking shots at the sides of guys knees. Requires hitting Farve late after every play. This is what is requried in order to not be wussies? Must be, because it seems to me those are the only changes that I see. Funny, I don’t miss them all that much.

Bottom line, I will always look at this issue, I always have, from the vantage point of how I felt when watching a recent interview with Earl Campbell. Campbell was a member of a division rival and he always made life hell for opponents. To see him barely able to talk without drooling all over himself shook me up pretty good.

Whenever I read some of you guy’s “all knowing” indignation on how this clean up is ruining football, Earl Campbell’s interview comes to mind.

And, I then dismiss most everything you say.

Goobs, Hurt=injure. Both means the same thing, idiot.

OLinemen should get bounties for every DL or LB they put out with the game with crack blocks. Funny how defensive players whine about this.

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No, hurt is to inflict pain. Not all pain is the result of an injury. Would you classify a player who had to leave the game because he had the wind knocked out of him as “injured”?

I thought it was Percocet?

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Either way the guy’s a druggie…

That still is not enough to satisfy my anger.

Anyway, please explain the huge benefit the Pats got by sending a 24 year old liberal arts major to tape something in plain view of 70,000K people that couldnt be used in game.