There can be little doubt that the NFL, which has refused to provide to the NFLPA or to the media evidence of the alleged bounty system in New Orleans, leaked to Jason Cole of Yahoo! Sports information regarding a ledger supposedly maintained by the Saints during the 2009 season.
There can now be little doubt that the NFL got its first leak wrong, requiring another leak to fix the first leak.
Cole initially reported that the ledger reveals that three $1,000 payments were made as a result of the Saints’ September 2009 game against the Bills. After PFT pointed out that four Bills were injured during the game and that three play defense, Cole’s report was revised to replace the game against the Bills with the November 8, 2009 game against Panthers.
“A source initially said the three $1,000 awards were given in Buffalo on Sept. 27, 2009, but that source and another source later corrected that report,” Cole writes.
Is it a big deal? Who knows. Cole’s source(s) may have simply misread the ledger.
Regardless, the Associated Press game story mentions only one Panthers player leaving the game due to injury: linebacker Thomas Davis.
Maybe the leak will once again be revised to reflect a game in which there were actually three offensive players who left with injuries.