I read every word of it and agree with it 100%. I wouldn’t want any part of the NFL if bounties for hurt players was accepted. What makes it crap?

Now this i dont buy. I think goodel did the right thing, but hes protecting the owner here. Whats a $500,000 fine for a multi million dollar team?I also dont buy ownership was clueless, asked for it to be stop and was in the dark about it.

Sounds too easy an excuse as why he stood by. Those coaches are loyal enough to take the fall for ownership.

What do they care, they got a ring out of all this and no matter how many picks you take you wont take the ring away,and thats all that matters, and they proved it.

Wow. That says a lot with connection to the bounty program

Selig:
1. Clear evidence of steroid use starting after lockout year of 1994.
2. Allegation of steroids and other PED’s in 1998 during McGuire and Sosa chase denied outright by baseball executives.
3. Years of nothing done because we can’t get players union to agree excuse. Still denial by baseball’s highest executives saying that only a few used steroids.
4. After very public outcry about steroids finally starts testing with punishment in 2004.
5. No clear message ever from commissioner.

Goodell:
1. Hear that bounties are being done in 2009.
2. Start investigation 2010.
3. Direct all parties to stop immediately.
4. Develop facts through investigation that show lies and inconsistencies.
5. Fines, loss of draft picks, suspensions. More to come.
6. Message loud and clear

Commissioner Goodell > Commissioner Selig

This is the sort of trashy, ghetto attitude that’s been allowed to proliferate that causes all the problems. It’s the reason that trash players like Vilma can convince others to participate. Yes, you hit the opposing player, you help them up and hen hit them again on the next play. But never with the intention of causing more pain than is necessary to MAKE THE PLAY. The lack of a sense of sportsmanship is unreal, and ignorant statements like yours denigrate the game and the players who play it right, with a sense of dignity.

He’s a lying idiot who’s so infatuated with seeing his face on TV that he doesn’t realize what moron he looks like.

Biggest crock of crap I’ve ever read

Also their should be asterisk next to the super bowl win… i can never forget the photo of Farve’s ankle after that game… you have to wonder what would have happened in that game if farve wasn’t knocked down so much… same deal with kurt warner…

I’m guessing that the penalties handed out to some players are going to be eye-openers too, given the amount of evidence that must sit on the commissioner’s desk.

Wow.

Given the league’s positive evaluation of Tom Benson’s involvement and ethics on this, I’m thinking that Mr. Benson has to be considering some terminations to separate himself and the organization from this tarnish. Why not get a different head coach now rather than waste waiting a year to get a gravely wounded Payton back ?

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Jonathan Vilma is the product of a program (UM) long noted for such tactics, unsportsmanlike conduct and open defiance of the rules. It’s not a coincidence that former UM players are among the most penalized and fined players in the NFL. I sincerely hope Al Golden can make the changes necessary to bring the program back to relevance in the NCAA, but with dignity and a sense of fair play. Unfortunately, the low-social class gangster culture so prevalent in Miami at large pervades the program to it’s core.

I believe these penalties are necessary and fair. A bounty system this organized and this brutal is absolutely unacceptable.

I too will look forward to how the players themselves are penalized. Records apparently exist on the payouts as well as the injuries. I’d review those records and would probably start by fining them 25x the amount they made, and then suspend them each for half a season.