According to Brett Favre's Book , The Vikings were also running a bounty program. (1 Viewer)

[Chopper Man]

No wonder Brett has stayed classy about this. The Vikings are trash for sending the League after us when they were doing the exact same thing. I want our draft picks back now!
https://vikingswire.usatoday.com/20...had-a-bounty-program-when-brett-favre-was-qb/

When it comes to Brett Favre’s time with the Vikings, a few things come to mind. His spectacular 2009 season, absolutely. But Vikings fans also remember how dirty the New Orleans Saints were in the NFC Championship game that left Favre bruised and tattered. Of course, we would find out later that the Saints, led by defensive coordinator Gregg Williams, had a bounty program focused on injuring Favre.

Well, in retrospect, the Vikings can’t be all that upset with the Saints considering they did the exact same thing.

All of this information comes from Favre’s new book, which you can buy here....(See article)

 

[You]

Well, lots of teams had ‘bounty ‘ programs which is why it was so infuriating that we got singled out

 

[Eman5805]

The amount of people that honestly believe we were trying to hurt players on purpose...and didn't hurt players at a level any higher than any other team...is so freaking high.

You still see the comments on Twitter that what happened to us is pure karma and that we'll never win again thanks to cheating. I always ask "How exactly did we cheat when the Vikings were doing the same thing?" And they always deflect that we were the ones punished or whatever.

 

[Zztop]

This is old news, but some salty MN fans were bringing it up as 'karma' for the 2009 season. Then I politely directed them to what their own QB said lol

 

[Matteoma1]

If I remember correctly I believe Green Bay, Pittsburgh, and I think the titans also had similar programs. They singled out New Orleans in the whole ordeal. It’s just another way the NFL shows bias in handing out punishment.

 

[blackadder]

No wonder Brett has stayed classy about this. The Vikings are trash for sending the League after us when they were doing the exact same thing. I want our draft picks back now!
https://vikingswire.usatoday.com/20...had-a-bounty-program-when-brett-favre-was-qb/

When it comes to Brett Favre’s time with the Vikings, a few things come to mind. His spectacular 2009 season, absolutely. But Vikings fans also remember how dirty the New Orleans Saints were in the NFC Championship game that left Favre bruised and tattered. Of course, we would find out later that the Saints, led by defensive coordinator Gregg Williams, had a bounty program focused on injuring Favre.

Well, in retrospect, the Vikings can’t be all that upset with the Saints considering they did the exact same thing.

All of this information comes from Favre’s new book, which you can buy here....(See article)

Except that everyone denies there was a specific bounty on FaRve and no evidence of one surfaced...no one got paid anything and player suspensions were voided.

They went after FaRve for their normal salary. Williams most definitely exhorted them to hit him hard and cause him pain to break his will.

But that used to be normal in football.

 

[blackadder]

If I remember correctly I believe Green Bay, Pittsburgh, and I think the titans also had similar programs. They singled out New Orleans in the whole ordeal. It’s just another way the NFL shows bias in handing out punishment.

If we are talking about the big play kitty, where everyone throws in and the pot gets handed out for big plays then yes the saints had one and IIRC kept it after being told to stop.

That is not a “bounty”’ program. No one was paid to deliberately injure anyone. They did try to hit Favre as hard and often as they could as directed by Williams.

 

[TheBayouBullet]

In light of the recent revelation that the Minnesota Vikings had a bounty program, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has suspended Sean Payton for one year.

 

[Day1]

My 8th grade team in 1976 had a similar program. Isn't the object of the game to score more points, and if removing your opponent's best players gets you there, you win?

 

[literature]

So in summary:

1. The 2009 Vikings had a pool started by coaches and veterans that named specific players who they were trying to injure.

2. The Saints had a generic pool for all big defensive plays.

3. The Vikings received no punishment, but the Saints received the biggest punishment in the history of the league

 

[Saint Jack]

If I remember correctly I believe Green Bay, Pittsburgh, and I think the titans also had similar programs. They singled out New Orleans in the whole ordeal. It’s just another way the NFL shows bias in handing out punishment.

Those teams didn’t have Gregg Williams running his mouth about “Remember Me” shots.

 

[picnicwithfish]

Don’t get caught up in the bait to call it a bounty program. No matter how many times people call it that, it was a pay for performance program, very similar if not identical to what most teams had employed at the time. The NFL TWISTED the narrative to fit their need to show the world they were focused on player safety and concussions. The facts are:

1.). The Saints were in the top tier of least injured opposing players that year.

2.) It was a different era of football, where hitting people was allowed. The Saints game plan was to hit the QB as much and as often as possible, a technique used to effect the timing of the opposing offense. All the veteran QBs that we faced in the playoffs that year suffered the same pressure. Yes, the high-low hit on farve should have been flagged, BUT that play does not justify the nfl saying we had a “bounty” program to injure players.

3.). There was NEVER any specific proof, that panned out more than a reach from the NFL, proving there was anything more than a “pay for porformance” program.

In conclusion, you will never convice anyone that wants to believe the saints had a program to injure players otherwise, because it fits their narrative of being butt hurt and petty. The Saints were equivalently taken to trial and proven innocent, but who cares about the facts? The facts are simple. The saints had a pay for performance program, JUST like everyone else.

 

[saint-58]

I'm still waiting to see those 50,000 pages of documents they supposedly had to back up their claims of a bounty!!!!

 

[Optimus Prime]

The amount of people that honestly believe we were trying to hurt players on purpose...and didn't hurt players at a level any higher than any other team...is so freaking high.

If I remember right weren’t we near the bottom of the league in both personal fouls and actually causing players to leave the game for the three years we supposedly had this bounty program?

 

[DoubleSaint]

I'm absolutely certain bounty programs still run.

The Falcons are one I would definitely suspect, dirty team.
The Cowboys and the Rams I wouldn't be surprised.
The Rams targeted Hill because they knew we were down on TE's, and they did it at the first opportunity. Textbook bounty hit.