Comments on: League says there’s no timetable for Payton reinstatement hearing

By: larryjames836

larryjames836 — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 06:41:57 +0000

All of this is not just Roger Goodell doing, its the other owners as well as the NFL. So if Roger Goodell don’t stand up and do the right thing he going to be in more hell than he already in holding back on Sean Payton reinstatement is not going to help Roger Goodell problem with Vilma. The New Orleans Saints has a good front office that can manage until Sean Payton get there at the end of the Super Bowl things will be alright.

By: dabearsk

dabearsk — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 05:46:53 +0000

Payton cheated and lied… Why should he get reinstated early? So he can make a token appearance at the Super Bowl? Get real…

By: busterdog1

busterdog1 — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 03:57:52 +0000

What is the commissioner doing, but he knows he is not stupid the contracts for the coaches end at the last game. So can Sean Payton hire coaches
no not till Mr Goodell says he can. He needs to let all of this go he made his bed and he will need to sleep in it. I hope that Vilma goes thru with his suit and never lets it go. What he did was stupid and way out and has set the Saint’s back some 5 years. And he is not letting go and Vilma should not let go as well. This guy has to come to the city where he has a Suoer Bowl and no one likes him.
I would not want to eat in place where he is eating. What do you think the workers will due.
Just think

By: nyyjetsknicks

nyyjetsknicks — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 03:20:04 +0000

Really? Everyone can’t use common sense and say the day after the Super Bowl?

By: benmci

benmci — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 03:14:31 +0000

At what point does the NFL (Goodell) put this nightmare to rest. Could Goodell look any worse for the wear on this mess?

By: pickney1

pickney1 — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 00:59:10 +0000

League says although they were not capable to truly prove the Saints so called Bounty System they can still be petty, see this story and their unwillingness to leave this story in the past and just move on.

The Saints season is over, let Sean Payton out of Bounty prision and allow the NFL and the Saints coaches and players to move on from this fabricated story.

By: johnclaytonsponytail

johnclaytonsponytail — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 00:44:30 +0000

I’m a bit conspicuous on why this wasn’t linked to the Saints thread and only rumor mill.

By: sf944

sf944 — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 23:35:38 +0000

Goodell has shown to be nothing but a power hungry, vindictive, illogical man throughout this entire process, no reason to stop now.

By: marcinhouston

marcinhouston — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 23:21:48 +0000

There is a reason that Roger Goodell allowed a sign into the stadium for the 2006 NFC Championship game that read “Bears Finishing What Katrina Started.” Roger Goodell hates the city and people of New Orleans and when in 2009 it became clear that neither the Bears nor Katrina had finished the city, he vowed to do it himself. The NFL needs a real mature commish not an angry juvenile drunk on power like Roger Goodell.

By: sdisme

sdisme — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 23:11:27 +0000

Just a guess but Goodell is probably trying to hold Vilma’s lawsuit against the Saints. My guess is he has been trying to get Mr. Benson to talk Vilma out of the defamation lawsuit in exchange for reinstating Payton and getting back the 2nd round pick.

I wouldn’t doubt a condition of Payton’s reinstatement being tied to a public statement of guilt.

By: chattanola

chattanola — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 23:05:31 +0000

Did Aiello happen to mention what The Sam Hill is the holdup on this process?

I’m going to predict, with 95% certainty, that there is no substantial reason for delaying the response to Payton’s request.