C’mon kid, I’m not a Saints fan (at all), and neither is my fanhood bad for the sport. You didn’t address anything I said.

@vinsanitynow:

“Key here is WITHIN THE RULES – you going to tell me that all those shots on Farve were within the rules? If I am not mistaken there were personal fouls called”

Sure they were called, as they should have been. But no one — to my knowledge — is claiming that players were rewarded for those illegal plays. And players should be allowed to reward one another for big, legal, defensive plays, including those that knock a guy out of the game. Why? Because getting knocked out of the game, as in rugby, boxing, UFC, judo, etc., is part of it.

It’s always been part of it.

I haven’t seen anything that conclusively shows that people were rewarded for illegal plays.

Short of that, I don’t see the problem.

Full disclosure: I was an All-State middle linebacker in high school and played a year at a small college before getting serious about studying and so giving up the game. Now I’m a lawyer; hence my emphasis on the LEGALITY of paying for performance.

I actually agree with Darren Sharper or Mike Golic can’t remember on ESPN yesterday, when they said the word “bounty” — with it’s dark connotation — has as much to do with all the media hype as anything. (That and the fact that most media types never played the game, and so have very little idea of what playing defense is really like.

You try to knock guys out. Legally. I see no problem in rewarding guys who do so. Legally. That’s it. (Rewarding for penalties, that’s a different story.)

~~ “Rather, guys are supposed to try to knock each other out of the game — within the rules which is all that seems to have been going on with the Saints… ~~~

Key here is WITHIN THE RULES – you going to tell me that all those shots on Farve were within the rules? If I am not mistaken there were personal fouls called

~~ If the Saints were paying bonuses for unsportsmanlike conduct penalties, we’d have a problem, but that’s not the case!” ~~

Only those who read the report know who allegedly got paid and what they got paid for

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Precisely. The same players who are warriors and who don’t mind ending someoen else’s career then want to cash in long after they have left the game and find themselves in daily pain.

I’ll say it again — if the union was really interested in the long-term financial problems of the players, they would structure a CBA so that a portion of all contracts include deferred annuity payments so that no player who stays in the league for at least a few years can possibly run through all of their $$.

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Goobs, As far as I am concerned, vous is a class A+ D-bag.

But mainly amongst the players.

Pollard has 3 notches in his belt..Brady, welker, and Gronkowski now. That must have been some serious gas money.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d82761060/article/legal-action-in-wake-of-saints-bounty-revelations-not-likely?module=HP11_content_stream

The lawsuits from the former players are ridiculous to begin with, however if teams and players are setting bounties that makes it 10x worse.

What a bunch of cry-babies!!

The NFL is done…..the Golden Billion Dollar Business is near total collapse!

It’s NOT ILLEGAL in football to knock a guy out of the game, or to try to do so.

Rather, guys are supposed to try to knock each other out of the game — within the rules — which is all that seems to have been going on with the Saints and almost certainly with every other team in the league.

If the Saints were paying bonuses for unsportsmanlike conduct penalties, we’d have a problem, but that’s not the case!

The refs do a good enough job policing the game on the field, without need of dragging the league through the mud over a common practice that grown men have knowingly chosen to undertake together.

These sorts of witch hunts are just bad for the sport.

Do we really care what he wants to know?

Maybe the Jets had a bounty on Brooks, lol.

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