According to Brett Favre's Book , The Vikings were also running a bounty program.

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If you still wanna die defending the molehill of the 09 game and the bountygate farce....well you're just a bitter uneducated fan. The rules for quarterback protection were wayyy different then. None of those hits were illegal, flagged or fined. As far as bountygate goes....do some homework. That was an absolute farce. An independent arbitrator, who was actually goodell's mentor, even told him 'you've got nothing here and this is not the way you change the culture of the league' and dropped all player suspensions to no evidence. The reason Payton, William's and Loomis were suspended was because there is no coaches union like the NFLPA has. So no backing and Goodell held his own kangaroo court and acted as judge jury and executioner because hes a power monger. So there was no legal backing, no independent arbitration, no appeal process. It's also funny that the game and player the nfl referenced as 'proof' as bounty was Thomas Davis of Carolina.....a linebacker who btw....was injured and tore his acl while backpedaling into coverage. Sounds like a true bounty system. The only pay for play 'evidence ' the league could produce was a ledger listing monetary amounts for performance plays like $500 for an interception, sack, forced fumble etc. Not one mention of injuring an opponent. Real bounty system there huh? So please, do some homework before trying to drag that garbage out. Or maybe remember the Vikings had 4 fumbles and 2 ints, a crucial 12 in the huddle penalty, and a brutal pick by Favre with the game on the line that you're taught not to throw in 7th grade. That must be due to legally hitting QB hard. NOW, back to real issue at hand....