Trouble uncovered in the NFL?

[Kevin Kenneally]

All,

Many news agencies are running stories of "Bounties" being paid to players for injuries inflicted on their opponents....

I'm SHOCKED..... :scream: :bigfire:

 

['Ol Fezziwig]

All,

Many news agencies are running stories of "Bounties" being paid to players for injuries inflicted on their opponents....

I'm SHOCKED..... :scream: :bigfire:

I'm shocked they are only _now_ making an issue of it...it's something done, however informally, at all levels of football even without money being involved. Given all the lawsuits by former players over concussion injuries and the NFL's knowledge/lack of action over the issue is likely, at the very least, a subsidiary reason behind the investigation.

 

[trevpr1]

I bet it was the Patriots what started it....

 

['Ol Fezziwig]

I bet it was the Patriots what started it....

Unlikely given that the bounties were for defensive hits...

 

[Kevin Kenneally]

I bet it was the Patriots what started it....

Narrow minded "fish-fesces".......

Try teams with "better" defensive schemes.....

But some quickly jumped to the same conclusion you did......

 

[RobZagnut]

I bet it was the Patriots what started it....

Nah, Belicheat only video taped other coaches defenses using bounties.

 

[Glennbo]

All sports do this. Football's got NOTHIN' on hockey for bounties.

Even in baseball they bean guys.

 

[indy_go_blue60]

My first thought was New Orleans based on the way they pounded on Warner and Favre in the divisional and NFCCG a few years back. Re Favre I don't think I've ever seen so many late and deliberately brutal hits on one individual as in that game, and I've watched the NFL for nearly 50 years. I was right on.

 

[wrongway149]

at the very least, a subsidiary reason behind the investigation.

Apparently, the extra 'bonus' money also creates salary-cap issues.

 

[Bret Hildebran]

Apparently, the extra 'bonus' money also creates salary-cap issues.

Yah, given it's all under the table $ it violates the cap rules akin to what San Fran was doing in the '90s signing guys real cheap & paying them under the table.

I still haven't seen a study indicating that guys trying to hurt someone were more likely to KO a player and cause injury than those not being paid a bounty. i.e. what evidence is there that this is a safety issue at all? It might be, but I've seen no proof it is. And it's not like a Bounty Free NFL is contact free, well except for those skirt-wearing-there's-only-two-square-inches-you-can-legally-touch-or-it's-a-flag-QB-types of course...

 

[Kevin Kenneally]

Recommend that the NFL Fine the team, take away the 2012 draft picks and Fine the coaches.

This is not "Sportsmanship, it is Assault, disguised to be football tackles......"