Posted on 03/02/2012 2:41:59 PM PST by toast
Between 22 and 27 defensive players on the New Orleans Saints, as well as defensive coordinator Gregg Williams, maintained a "bounty" program funded primarily by players in violation of NFL rules during the 2009, 2010 and 2011 seasons, the NFL announced Friday.
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No, the Saints are vermin.
Favre was and is a franchise-level, Hall-of-Fame player; and to see a bunch of ghetto thugs lining up to try to injure him, and the officials turn the other way, is reprehensible, on the order of the Chicago Black Sox scandal.
You must be an Obaama voter.
NO cheers, unfortunately.
Look up the details of Chris Henry’s autopsy, and then remember that he never missed a single game in the pros or college due to head injury. There’s a reason the league and PA are freaking out about injuries, the data is saying these guys are literally killing themselves playing the game. With the data we have now a conscientious parent wouldn’t let their kid play the game, and if kids aren’t playing the game then you don’t get the next generation of adults to play the game. Yes there is a certain minimum level of violence in the game, but they have to mitigate the risk, they’ve got to keep it a game that mom’s will let their kids play, or it ends.
Wow! I really must have hit a sore spot. From talking sports to being an Obama voter. Gingrich is my man, followed second by Santorum. Didn’t even get accused of being a Romney voter. You Brett Favre people should get over it. The Saints won. Favre should have retired long before he ever played that game. His ego wouldn’t even let him retire the next season, where his insistance on playing another year cost the Vikings big time. He’s an egotistical selfish cry-baby. He was great in his day, but he stayed in too long. I’m sure the interception he threw that cost his team the game was all the Saints fault. Sounds like you are more the Obama voter. Blame it on someone else. It’s never your fault.
Agreed. Give the championship to the Vikes. Ban the players and coaches from the NFL, and make them do community service in a hospital. I knew the (s)aints were evil!
I suppose you wouldn’t mind if someone paid a guy to injure your son? Say, wreck a knee or break an ankle?
Oh boy, so you would really enjoy seeing all of the New Orleans Saints have season-ending injuries in the first game of the season, right? Hey, it's a physical game....
All players that participated in this should be told they will have to skip camp and can't suit up until the 5th game of the season.
I’m not arguing the merits of the “bounty”. Of course that’s wrong. I’m arguing to the Brett Favre fans who have been saying that the Saints cheated to win the playoff game in 2009. When the Saints won the game in overtime because they won the toss and drove to a winning field goal, they weren’t happy until the NFL changed the rules just because the Saints beat the Vikings in OT. The Vikings fans and I suppose some Green Bay fans were looking for any excuse except for the fact that their guy didn’t play his best game.
Last year, San Francisco was one of the dirtiest playing teams in football. One of their players got suspended for stomping on a player who was down. The Saints lost to the 49ers in a playoff game this past year. I haven’t heard the Saints complaining that they lost because the other team didn’t play fair.
As far as my son having a bounty on his head to be injured, he was in the Marines in Afghanistan. I suppose you could say he was a wanted man by the Taliban.
Typical Dem tactic.
Cheers!
So Brett Favre is the only player in football with bruises after a game? I find that hard to believe. I’ll bet if you take pictures of more than half of the players in any given game, there will be bruises on their bodies that will look worse than those. My sons played football in high school and they frequently had bruises on their bodies from a rough game. It’s football! Not flag football. I remember reading many posts during football season on FB complaining how the NFL was trying to turn the players into wusses and make football more of a flag football game.
I’m just wondering why the conversation is only about St. Brett? I don’t hear a lot of hoopla from other players or teams. If he can’t take the hits, he shouldn’t be in the game.
You wouldn’t know a Dem tactic if it bit you. Obama and the left are always making excuses for their failures and blaming others. Just as you did.
As a life long Packers fan I can tell you I thoroughly enjoyed Brett getting the snot kicked out of him. The only reason he was a Viking in the first place was to stick it to Green Bay. Karma is a biotch.
I was a huge Brett Favre fan. My wife and I were at the Cincinatti game when he came on in relief of an injured Don Majkowski and beat the Bengals. I saw him play in person in dozens and dozens of games, home and away. Because of him, a whole generation of Packers fans have no idea what it's like having a sucky team because you have sucky QB after sucky QB. After he "retired" and then un-retired I was OK with him going to the Jets. The team moved on and he still wanted to play, fine. But when he went to the Viking he was dead to me.
I wasn't on the field, and I didn't fail.
The officials FAILED to stop a pattern of deliberate late hits with intent to injure.
Regardless of who won the game, the should have been addressed.
Cheers!
Then your beef is really with the officials. I’ve seen the Saints called more times than not for late hits, some calls justified and some not so justified, just as I’ve seen other teams called when the hits were against our guys.
Reggie Bush, who played with us in 2010, had his leg broken by a defender, but no one cried and said it wasn’t fair. Football is a rough game. Players get injured from Pop Warner to the pros. That game was two years ago. You should be over it by now.
Like I said, in reality this eclipses the Black Sox scandal.
NO cheers, unfortunately.
Then you can wallow in your misery for as long as you want. But there are so many more important things in life, if you want to be miserable, that’s your choice.
You’re right. You shouldn’t get over it. Enjoy your misery. Good day.
Williams is gone, so impact to the Saints players should be minimal.
Cheers!
I don’t have the time or the inclination to check your posting history. You have wallowed more than enough in these last few posts.
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