No, you are comparing consensual sex with trying to injure another person. That is ridiculous. Put it to you this way. If a Hit man kills a person for money, is less of a crime to kill for free?

your argument makes 0 sense. The point is we have players, coaches, etc. admitting and talking about targeting others for injury. Goodell came down on “Boutnygate” because he says it is detrimental to the game and infringes on players’ safety. If he does nothing about things like this he is pretty hypocritical.

Give the girl the $10,000 to have sex not with one, two, or even 3, but 9-10 guys and/or gals, put it on video, call it a movie. You’re clear.

On topic, the fact of the matter is, Goodell made a HUGE stink over what he called the intent to injure [allegedly] involved in the Saints case. That was his entire “paltform” if you will.

If Goodell’s goal is really to improve player safety and truly eradicate an alleged/perceived intent to injure culture in the NFL, he must act against the Jets, and severely. There is no other way of not coming across as a hypocrite, and solidifying the claims not only made by Vilma and the other players, but by the ex-players suing the NFL as well. Simple as that.

Somebody is lying. Let’s find out the truth.

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if i was to take information regarding a bounty program, i would assume that i would have to promise the whistle blower anonymity to get the info. then, if i make that deal i’m probably facing a civil suit if i violate the agreement (besides being a slug for doing so). am i giving goodell and co. too much credit? don’t know. but i haven’t heard mention of this possibility and thought i’d throw it out there.
the saints had a CONCEALED PROGRAM in place and were WARNED to end it. they didn’t. this happened against a backdrop of the threat of a huge lawsuit against the nfl for lack of action in protecting player safety. so there’s a ‘crime’. a big one. and if you don’t act you get sued. what’s complicated?

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There is not one NFL team out there who would not collectively be cheering if their opponent’s star player left the game with an injury next week. And not one team where the person who inflicted the injury would not be privately congratulated by his fellow players and his coaches. Every team I have ever played on encouraged trying to knock the best players out of the game. Some coaches did it with the standard “hit them hard” rhetoric, others with a more sinister “hit him in the knees” type way.

And that was in amateur football where there was nothing at stake except pride. Add millions of dollars in wages, bonuses and endorsements as an incentive for winning and of course coaches are going to encourage players to inflict injury. It happened at the Saints, it happens at the Jets, it happens at your favourite team, it happens at your favourite team’s arch-rivals, it happened at teams coached by Saint Tony Dungy, it happens everywhere. Always has and always will.

Without proof of a money transaction, the only options are to judge motivation or judge behavior. What’s next, the NFL motivation police? Hard hits are OK as long as there is no malice of heart. Right.

Players should be fined for behavior, i.e. illegal hits, unless it can be proven they’re being paid assassins, getting money for injuries to specific players.

An illegal statement: I bet $1,000 they don’t do anything to the Jets

A legal statement: The girls in the bar would like to sleep with you.

An illegal statement: The girls in the bar would like to sleep with you for $1,000

Get the point?

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think that the Jets did anything wrong. I just don’t see how you can go nuclear on the Saints without showing me some proof of illegal acts on the field.

Apparently talking about it in the locker room gets you a year suspension, while actually stomping a guy’s arm or face only get’s you a game or two. And, dirty shots that actually injure players only get you a small fine. If you think that’s justice, more power to you.

If you are somehow surprised that the league office will ignore this blatant attempt to injure a player (a marketable, name player no less) by a JET following the unprecedented (and outrageous, IMHO) penalties levied against the Saints organization, then you just haven’t been paying attention.

The Jets admitted to targeting Reggie Bush for injury.
The Jets injured Reggie Bush.
The Jets admitted after the game that they targeted and injured Reggie Bush.

Huge differences here.

The Saints have never admitted to targeting any player for injury.
During a THREE YEAR PERIOD the Saints did not injure a single player as a result of an illegal hit.
The Saints HAVE NEVER admitted to an intent to injure program.
The NFL investigated the Saints for 3 years and had 50,000 pages of “evidence” of nothing.

There is more evidence of wrongdoing in the last week as regards to the Jets than Goodell’s 50,000 pages of “evidence” against the Saints.

NFL will do NOTHING to the Jets because they are a New York City/New Jersey team.

Pathetic.

Even the b-roll that ESPN would always show under “bountygate” news would be about 5 normal/light tackles, the McCray hit on Warner, & the hi/lo hit on Favre (both unflagged). You’d think the NFL could come up with one shot that was as blatant as the Raiders’ chop block on Ziggy Hood yesterday (also unflagged, thanks to the NFL’s real attitude towards player safety). Why doesn’t that clear the Saints in any way?

And what difference does it make if money is exchanged on these hits or not? Does that have an effect on the extent of the injury? Don’t tell me Sean Payton is out for the year because of a salary cap violation amounting to a few thousand bucks.

That’s assuming that you believe Ryan and the goon squad that their goal was to apply “clean, legal hits” to knock Bush out.

’cause, you know, you can always take what the Jets say at face value . . .

It is a gladiator sport, sad to say that there will be after effects of playing it for most players. Luckily at least these days they are compensated pretty good that they can provide for their families after football for the most part.

Read what you type,it sounds crooked to begin with. And you really think $10′s of thousands of dollars is just a little bit of money?!

To me $10,000 is NOT “a little” extra.

Bring cash into the equation and it becomes illegal.

I figure the lawyer should recognize this.