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Who Dey, Saints!!!

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I can't blame Godell. The NFL is almost certainly looking at many, many lawsuits down the road from former NFL players due to the physical and mental disabilities from which they now suffer as a result of their time spent in the NFL. When information surfaced about the Saints' bounty program, the NFL pretty much had to hand out a drastic penalty because to not do so would be to make defending all those looming lawsuits that much more difficult. It's the same reason all these new player protection rules are being so enthusiastically enforced.
 
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The NFL has marketed and promoted the inherent violence of this sport for many years. It has made all kinds of people who don't risk their ass on the field very rich. Now all of a sudden they have a problem with it?

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jlb1705;2129242; said:
Isn't that the entire premise of professional football?
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Look - it's OK to pay players a huge salary for them to hit folks so hard they take them out of the game......but what is NOT OK is that obscene Saints system where they pay someone an extra 1/10,000 of their salary to hit folks so hard they take them out of the game. :shake:

I worry about you.
 
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The NFL has always been a sport of controlled violence. There have always been rules.

Of course, the rules haven't kept players from becoming crippled addle-brained idiots in their later years. So take off the helmets, hand them all clubs and let's finally see what we really want to see.



Not sure how I ended up here anyhow. I was looking for the Rollerball thread.
 
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Sean Payton and Joe Vitt are repeat offenders...

Goodell made it go away last time, not so much this go around.

These guys are lucky they aren't in court for a wrongful termination lawsuit in regards to the medical trainer being fired. The fact that that story was never a huge issue is a feather in the cap of Goodell, I guess.

Bounty-gate is small peanuts compared to a head coach stealing and asking for pain killers on a regular basis.

My overall point to football enthusiasts who think this punishment is ridiculously harsh, is to point out what actually happened.

Goodell gets to come off looking like a hard-ass against the bounty program, and it looks like Payton is serving hard time for being the head coach. If Payton was clean and didn't need Goodell to prevent a court case from coming against the league, the punishment would have been severe but not nearly as bad.

Joe Vitt took a nasty punishment too, and he's involved in vicodin-gate too.
 
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