Comments on: Saints weren’t allowed to show Payton on video screen

By: malabotwo

malabotwo — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 10:55:35 +0000

I’m just glad the Aints are 1-4 and my Falcons are 5-0. Aints are a non-story, let’s move on!
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Might want to start by winning ‘A’ playoff game under the current regime if you ever expect the Failcans to be a story!

Falcan’ts need to win something, then u can start takling trash

By: vegasvinnie

vegasvinnie — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 13:50:22 +0000

I gets better still. Michelle Tafoya told San Diego radio station XX 1090 days before the game that Goodell told NBC that they weren’t allowed to talk to Sean Payton. I told have the link but it’s in their archives section.

Goodell makes this worse every time he does something new.

By: tavia47

tavia47 — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 23:28:05 +0000

@Morty999 we will see how far the Falcants, can go It’s not over yet, I thought I seen them do this before. LOL!!!

By: marcinhouston

marcinhouston — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:50:15 +0000

Its fair in a way because I am pretty sure the Saints are not allowed to show Roger Goodell on their video board either, though that prohibition comes from FEMA and the USGS earthquake center not the NFL, buildings downtown aren’t built to withstand the reaction that would happen if they showed Goodell.

By: dannymac17

dannymac17 — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:14:47 +0000

I wish you would talk about the Phantom calls on the Chargers rather than this.

The Chargers got jobbed by Goodell and the Refs.

Absolutely Disgusting.

By: broncobrewer

broncobrewer — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 17:44:31 +0000

I can’t wait til this whole thing blows up in goodells face. He’s going to look really dumb. Coaches can’t even get their players pumped up anymore. The NFL has become a joke. You can hit anyone for fear of a penalty, or say hit someone hard. Before Goodell leave the lingerie league will have harder hits.

By: pickney1

pickney1 — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 17:34:04 +0000

There goes the self-proclaimed shield trying to act tough, u allow the man in the game put him in a visible area but when it games to fans seeing him on the screen then you say no. Yea thats tough right there

By: robf2010

robf2010 — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 17:07:30 +0000

“Brees plays 9 games a year in a dome playing arena football rules. Unitas played in an era when real football was played.”

You will never get me to dispuite Unitas was a great QB. You will aslo never get me to diminish Brees’ accomplishment last night. Unitas never again approached it. Neither did other great Hall-of-Fame quarterbacks like Bob Griese, Terry Bradshaw, Roger Staubach, Dan Marino, Dan Fouts, Joe Montana, Peyton Manning, Brett Favre, Fran Tarkenton … you get the idea. It’s a fabulous accomplishment in any era.

By: robf2010

robf2010 — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 17:03:30 +0000

“The refs did everything possible to make sure drew got his record and the Aints got the win last night.”

Yeah, it was the refs who allowed Devery Henderson to get 15 yards behind the defense on the record touchdown pass.

By: mogogo1

mogogo1 — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 16:38:54 +0000

I wish I’d been at the game! Because seeing Payton approximately 200 times during the telecast was a bit much. I have no problem with him going to games. I don’t even have a problem with him being shown on TV and the announcers making note of the fact he’s there. But he was on-screen in the fourth quarter more than some of the players who were on the field. They kept switching to the shot of him sitting (sometimes even standing!) like they expected him to be pulling his hair out, crying, trying to signal plays down to Brees? No idea what they thought those repeated shots were going to show.

It did look to me like he’d lost a bit of weight. He looked trim. And kind of nice to see somebody in a box without a tie on. It gets old seeing the owners, GMs, etc. all dressed up for games like they’re at a board meeting.

By: justintuckrule

justintuckrule — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 16:31:00 +0000

The whole thing is dumb. Bounty gate is dumb. Goodell’s suspensions of a non-existent bounty program is dumb. Letting Payton come to the game but not showing him on the jumbotron is dumb. And, with all due respect to Brees, the consecutive TD record is kind of lame. It’s like crowning Barry Bonds the HR king. While Brees is not personally on steroids, the game itself is on steroids with defenses being castrated. Brees plays 9 games a year in a dome playing arena football rules. Unitas played in an era when real football was played. Goodell has frustrated me.

By: nflhof

nflhof — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 16:23:41 +0000

That whole scene last night was a complete bend over for the Saints by the refs and the NFL. The game had a predetermined winner as it was quite obvious that the refs were homers all night long and didn’t call anywheres near a fair game on both sides of that sideline last night. The refs did everything possible to make sure drew got his record and the Aints got the win last night. Allowing SP to attend the game was BS. Doesnt that mean he go to any other game now? Goodell was made a fool last night and he should feel like a complete tool today for allowing a suspended team employee in the doors at the Superdome. The NFL is the new WWE.

By: jonny42671

jonny42671 — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 16:21:59 +0000

Why would they want to show a cheating liar?

By: polamalurulz43

polamalurulz43 — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 16:14:37 +0000

I would characterize the league’s concern about showing Peyton’s image on the screen as beyond the ridiculous bordering on pure paranoia. Just another apologia for the NFL’s poor handling of this entire issue, whether with respect to the coach, his staff or the players.

Asked another way, why did the league ban internal images inside the dome but not even attempt to prohibit the myriad of images of Peyton and Vitt broadcast all over? That makes as much sense as a box of hammers.

By: musicman495

musicman495 — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 16:13:35 +0000

This entire episode of treating Sean Payton and the Saints like some kind of Guantanamo Bay terrorists without a shred of credible evidence being presented – either to the accused or to the public – has damaged the reputations of Goodell and the NFL far more than it has the Saints – except, of course, to the loser Viking and Falcon fans who can’t see past their own noses.

By: theuglitruth

theuglitruth — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 16:10:26 +0000

Who cares! Payton wasn’t making plays on the field…he was lucky enough to be there to witness it in person. No reason he needs to be on the big screen. Payton probably doesn’t care either. A whole lot to do about nothing.

By: sb44champs

sb44champs — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 16:09:39 +0000

morty999 says:
Oct 8, 2012 11:01 AM
I’m just glad the Aints are 1-4 and my Falcons are 5-0. Aints are a non-story, let’s move on!
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Might want to start by winning ‘A’ playoff game under the current regime if you ever expect the Failcans to be a story!

By: waynemorgan2012

waynemorgan2012 — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 15:52:13 +0000

They let Greg Williams go see his son coach with the Rams why can’t Sean Payton go see Drew break the record?

By: olcap

olcap — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 15:36:37 +0000

Goodell’s inconsistency in just about everything he does, says, or hands out, in the way of punishments, says just about everything about Goodell that can possibly be said – as it relates to his complete ineffectiveness as commisioner, and his girlish way of changing his mind from one second to the next.

Somehow, Goodell needs to no longer be NFL commissioner, as he is steadily killing the game.

By: artisan3m

artisan3m — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 15:30:31 +0000

I’d love to read where the mayor of NOLA tells Goodell that “If our Saints can’t compete for the game our city is hosting, then be prepared to stage the entire event on your own. Our city will provide nothing ~ no transportation, EMS, security, concessions, traffic control, in-house TV operation. maintenance, custodial, or any other service. If our team can be used as a weekly commodity to determine who eventually gets to play in the game ~ and we are excluded from that possibility ~ then its your party. You staff it and pay for it.” Of course, that will never happen but in my mind it should. I’m not trying to excuse what led up to all this mess, but if the Saints players on the field are allowed to play in the season, they deserve the right to complete for the crown. Otherwise, shut down the franchise or move it elsewhere. Goodell is not the only person in this mess with teeth ~ or he shouldn’t be.

By: sb44champs

sb44champs — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 15:23:04 +0000

WHO DATS don’t forget…but obviously, the preppy Goodell has never been exposed to a bunch of crazy cajuns and don’t understand the meaning of Cajun Justice!
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Yeah, GODell better have a food tester if he ever expects to eat the fine Louisiana cuisine the great New Orleans has to offer!!

By: dannythebisforbeast

dannythebisforbeast — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 15:18:52 +0000

His face is a mi between Skeletor and the Road Warrior who’s paint stained his face. What’s up with that

By: clssylssy

clssylssy — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 15:15:29 +0000

I guess if your talking consistency and suspensions, one should ask why Greg Williams has the freedom to go to Rams games? Maybe the Player’s Association should open it’s own inquiry about “payola” within the league and the practice of rewarding certain individuals for “favors” performed on behalf of the NFL! The whole who-ha over forbidding Coach Payton to be shown on the jumbotron is absurd, everybody knew he was there and TV cameras showed him and his son in “time out”. The more the league does to further anger and incite the fans is just more gasoline on the fire. Unless this gets resolved as peaceably and quickly as possible, the NFL will have more fireworks at the Superbowl that they want. WHO DATS don’t forget…but obviously, the preppy Goodell has never been exposed to a bunch of crazy cajuns and don’t understand the meaning of Cajun Justice!

By: sb44champs

sb44champs — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 15:12:02 +0000

Brees will go down as a Top 10 QB of all time.

By: jr4real

jr4real — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 15:11:41 +0000

Payton should have put an (unconnected) headset on in the box. RG1 would have s… himself!

By: doubleogator

doubleogator — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 15:09:50 +0000

Goodell overstepped his boundaries when after he suspended Payton for the year went on to say that he could not have any contact with anyone one in the Saints organization….these people are also his friends and Goodell can control who he socializes with too? gimme a break! not being on the sidelines or pressbox during a game is one thing, not having any contact whatsoever is out of line….

By: purplegreenandgold

purplegreenandgold — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 15:08:29 +0000

thingamajig says: Oct 8, 2012 10:36 AM

Payton looked like Farmer John every time they showed him in the stands. He must have been wearing hisTexas outfit.
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I thought he looked quite comfortable and relaxed with his son as he always does. There was no anxiety… no strain… and definitely no farmer john look. If that was a Texas look then your statement was a compliment.

By: baloneyjohn

baloneyjohn — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 15:05:35 +0000

This has become a PR mess. While the NFL is increasing in popularity, ONLY in viewers sitting out side these over priced stadium seats. Roger, the dodger, should be fired

By: morty999

morty999 — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 15:01:34 +0000

I’m just glad the Aints are 1-4 and my Falcons are 5-0. Aints are a non-story, let’s move on!

By: thingamajig

thingamajig — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 14:36:46 +0000

Payton looked like Farmer John every time they showed him in the stands. He must have been wearing hisTexas outfit.