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.
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.