Comments on: Jonathan Vilma learned on TV that he’s suspended for 2012

By: kodakinvegas

kodakinvegas — Thu, 03 May 2012 02:17:54 +0000

Poor Vilma, offering 10K behind Favres back and the nerve of the NFL not to send Western Union out to get him despicable, just totally despicable. They should have sent Sheriffs with warrants for conspiracy to do bodily harm. The Saints are gonna be the trash can of the NFL for the fove years. And yet not one fan is angered bt the embarrassment or humiliation the Saints have brought upon N.O,L.A. The Browns suck, Miami and Minny suck, but the Saints are more than losers. Slumdogs. Below sea level swamp rat slumdogs. New Orleans, Saints. Home of Loomis, Payton, and Vilma PLUS many other tasteless, classless, losing slumdogs. Could be a freak side show at a circus. Americas finest, largest, group of lying, cheating, finger pointing, tuck tail and run loser sumdog backstabbets. Come one, come all and see show. Don’t miss out! Hold your wallets, guard your purses and hide your watch. See the greatest assembly of slumdogs ever assembled together all I’n one place. NOLA!!!

By: discosucs2005

discosucs2005 — Wed, 02 May 2012 22:57:23 +0000

The other details are irrelevant, the NFL should inform players who are suspended themselves, as opposed to simply issuing a statement.

By: beeronthefridge

beeronthefridge — Wed, 02 May 2012 22:36:29 +0000

Poor baby!

By: surly1n1nd1anapol1s

surly1n1nd1anapol1s — Wed, 02 May 2012 22:14:14 +0000

What a fool. This isn’t believable.

By: jpb12

jpb12 — Wed, 02 May 2012 21:49:33 +0000

Lied repeatedly.
Paid teammates to injure opponents.

Class Act.

By: patsaintsbroncoscheat

patsaintsbroncoscheat — Wed, 02 May 2012 21:25:55 +0000

Seems pretty fair to me. Another job well done Goodell!

By: yssupasigninnamnotyep

yssupasigninnamnotyep — Wed, 02 May 2012 21:02:54 +0000

I’m calling BS on this one…I can almost guarantee the NFL informed the players’ agents. If they didn’t notify their clients, then tough luck.

By: countyk66ers

countyk66ers — Wed, 02 May 2012 19:57:36 +0000

If these guys were playing so dirty why didn’t anybody notice? It should have been obvious.

By: brianbosworthisstonecold

brianbosworthisstonecold — Wed, 02 May 2012 19:55:49 +0000

Good. Now all they need to do is take away their Lombardi!

By: thewassabi

thewassabi — Wed, 02 May 2012 19:54:31 +0000

The NFLPA is so contradictory its funny, go and say we protect our players then protect the ones that are purposely inflicting injuries on the players they are supposed to be protecting LMFAO!!!! GO GET BENT NFLPA

By: cags777

cags777 — Wed, 02 May 2012 19:28:27 +0000

I agree with the suspensions of Vilma, Hargrove, Smith, and Fujita. However, this was a classless move by Goodell and the NFL to not inform them in writing or in a phone conversation that they would be suspended. In a way, it’s like a university making an announcement of a program getting cut without informing the coaches or student-athletes.

By: pturner81

pturner81 — Wed, 02 May 2012 19:26:10 +0000

People who use twitter are dumb. Hence all these athletes on it. Twitter isn’t news and this is probably not true. The saints could use any sympathy they can get right now. Stop turning twitter BS into headlines

By: jimmylions

jimmylions — Wed, 02 May 2012 19:20:05 +0000

It was definitely tactless of the NFL to let these guys find out about their suspensions via TV, but … on the other hand … that’s pretty much how corporations treat everyone.

Regular working stiffs get the plug pulled on their jobs permanently (not just for 12 months) in ways equally as tactless, and actually worse.

Obviously I’m not saying that a corporation workers badly is okay, I’m just saying it’s not shocking.

By: detroitlionsnfl

detroitlionsnfl — Wed, 02 May 2012 19:09:38 +0000

Tough cookies Villianma, lol!

By: CKL

CKL — Wed, 02 May 2012 19:02:55 +0000

This morning Vilma put a new avy on his Twitter from a magazine cover of the bounty story and when questioned he shot back that he did it because “JV can” (yeah he went 3rd person). At the time I figured he knew he was suspended and figured what the heck, why not act arrogant about it. So much for that..he’s just a DB.

By: iplay4keeps

iplay4keeps — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:55:13 +0000

Drew Breese and Chase Daniel must be good buddies. They’re both clueless and sound a lot smarter when they don’t talk or tweet. Keep those thoughts to yourself guys your better off.

By: devikesfan

devikesfan — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:52:41 +0000

Look at the bright side Vilma- you, Payton and Williams now have plenty of time to go fishing, golfing etc.
I you insist on working, then maybe Favre will show some compassion to you and pay you to cut the grass at his place in Mississippi…

By: j0esixpack

j0esixpack — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:51:52 +0000

I guess Goodell can violate his own policy of not “tipping” the media when it comes to NFL news.

I’m getting tired of Goodell setting NFL punishment based on the winds of public opinion.

Maybe the NFLPA will seek a suspension of Goodell – after all, it’s his injury reporting policy that puts gambling interests ahead of player safety and made it possible for Bounty-gate to happen in the first place.

By: axltcu

axltcu — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:42:36 +0000

The NFL is claiming they DID contact everyone before the statement was issued. I’m willing to bet they attempted to contact him and for whatever reason he either missed it or ignored it.

By: spinmovr

spinmovr — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:38:36 +0000

Where to start

A defensive player trying to hit a quarterback and knock him out of the game is just called football. It’s not battery or any of your other scary fantasies.

and

It’s customary to use somebody’s Twitter handle on Twitter instead of their real name because it makes it easier to gain new followers. Get it together, old timer.

Did anybody flippantly suggest jail time for Vilma and the others? I hope I didn’t miss it. I have strong expectations for PFT commenters.

By: mgjnsc

mgjnsc — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:35:21 +0000

No one should have sympathy for any player who intentionally tried to harm or possibly end the career of a fellow player!

By: whitecastleisafoodgroup

whitecastleisafoodgroup — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:26:54 +0000

And then Daniels set down Vilma’s shopping bags and said “Now you can carry them birch”.

By: melikefootball

melikefootball — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:24:42 +0000

Just shows where the NFL has come. Players are upset when they get suspended when they are willing to take another player out with no regard to that players career. Just for the sake of more MONEY.

By: xcerebus1

xcerebus1 — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:20:20 +0000

‘I was standing next to ‘@jonvilma51′? This moron refers to him using his twitter name? Is that to prove he actually is friends with him on twitter?

By: chrisjohnston10

chrisjohnston10 — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:17:53 +0000

Favre found out through the media that a bounty was on his head as well. Just saying…

By: eaglebobby

eaglebobby — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:16:46 +0000

No way would Goodell suspend players and not give them or their agents a heads up before the media–unless someone in the NFL office leaked it to the media. Let’s remember, Goodell is a lawyer and knows where he stands on legall grounds.

Plus, before we here the tired argument of “no person should have that much power”–the NLFPA AGREED to that procedure.

I find it disgusting that the union is fighting so hard in the corner of those who instigated and bankrolled the bounty system, yet are doing nothing about the players–Cam Newton and Aaron Rogers–who were targeted.

By: almighty1

almighty1 — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:05:52 +0000

Chase is just upset because the same news report he’s referring to mentioned him having herpes. He found out from Sportscenter when his sister should’ve told him to his face.

By: geezohman

geezohman — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:04:27 +0000

they could all get together at James Harrison place and do an interview piece for ESPN.. isn’t that the article where James was pictured with two guns etc…

By: marvsleezy

marvsleezy — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:02:42 +0000

If this is indeed true – I would play dumb if I were Vilma – If someone asked me about it, I would say that it must be lie, cuz the NFL hasnt said anything to me.

If they dont notify him, he should just ask like its business as usual.

By: thetruth1313

thetruth1313 — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:01:29 +0000

I am sure Goddell went straight to ESPN and told them first…Come on!!!

I am sure it was passed on to the teams regarding the suspensions and the teams would be responsible to pass it on to the players. Thats how the Chain Of Command works folks!