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

You just can't make this stuff up. The Vikings have been whining about this for nearly a decade. They've talked with righteous indignation about how we cheated and tried to hurt Brett on purpose. And now we find out they were doing the same thing, lololol.

Of course they were. The entire league had some sort of player pool. And yes, a lot of teams actually had bounty programs which have been a part of football since the game was invented. I can remember growing up hearing Madden talk about bounties being put out on players all the time. It was common knowledge.

To this day I'll see in the comments sections around the internet people saying, "The Saints were cheaters!" or "They only won because they were doing bounties!". That's the shame of it all. Most people are so blindly and blissfully ignorant of the facts about the case. They fed at the trough of lies that Goodell set out for them.