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

[insidejob]

The League wasn’t facing a multi billion dollar concussion lawsuit at the time.

Sure they were. It happened in the same 2011 season which was the one before Payton was suspended. If anything, they weren't facing multi-billion dollar concussion lawsuits in 2009 which is where they claim our "bounties" started. They should have put the Giants through the same things they did to us, considering they publicly admitted to trying to concuss Kyle Williams as a way to knock him out the game and give them an easier path to victory.

 

[FLIPPY]

A quick search of Queen boards and no mention of this . . .

Of coarse not, look at the first comment of the article...

"Lies and false propaganda"

 

[insidejob]

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?

We weren't near the bottom of the league, we were at the bottom of the league. I know in 2009 for sure that we were dead last in personal fouls and injuring other players and I believe it was the same for 2010 and 2011. Remember that in our "bounty" program, players were fined for getting flagged for personal fouls and not only didn't get a pay out from the kitty pool, but they had to put money into it. Our "bounty" program actually made our defense play more within the rules than if they had none at all.

 

[SoggyBottomBoy]

Chronologically speaking, that Gleason/Pamphilon video documentary wasn't released until AFTER Williams and Payton were suspended. That was a self inflicted wound (by Fujita I suppose), because it had the video and audio that Goodell and his media minions subsequently used to beat down the club. The initial evidence against the team was sparse, in hindsight.

The evidence was sparse because Goodell's intention was to hide behind the CBA that granted him authority to act as the discipline overlord. They had no case, but didn't think they needed to as they didn't have to defend their actions. UNTIL Vilma sued the NFL. That was the best thing that could have happened. After that, they were sent scrambling for "evidence" that they supposedly had before laying down the law. Mary Jo White, the coerced and manipulated statements from Hawthorne and Greg Williams, the sideline video clips (falsely attributed to the correct players) and the infamous scribblings on a napkin from a disgruntled employee. And the NFL doesn't get questioned on that after-the-fact "evidence."

That's how easily the public can be manipulated. Mainly because that's what they want to believe. Just like politics. Instead of critical thinking, we just seek out the answers/news that we want to hear.

 

[jayhawk66]

The evidence was sparse because Goodell's intention was to hide behind the CBA that granted him authority to act as the discipline overlord. They had no case, but didn't think they needed to as they didn't have to defend their actions. UNTIL Vilma sued the NFL. That was the best thing that could have happened. After that, they were sent scrambling for "evidence" that they supposedly had before laying down the law. Mary Jo White, the coerced and manipulated statements from Hawthorne and Greg Williams, the sideline video clips (falsely attributed to the correct players) and the infamous scribblings on a napkin from a disgruntled employee. And the NFL doesn't get questioned on that after-the-fact "evidence."

That's how easily the public can be manipulated. Mainly because that's what they want to believe. Just like politics. Instead of critical thinking, we just seek out the answers/news that we want to hear.

Remember the 50,000 pages of emails the NFL said they had?

Yeah, me neither, since they never existed.

 

[Hopeful]

The OP posted an article dated. 2006, is there new news on this Viking Bounty program?

 

[picnicwithfish]

The OP posted an article dated. 2006, is there new news on this Viking Bounty program?

Most of the information came out with the Brett Favre book and his book interviews. YouTube Farve and the admitted bounty

 

[TheRamboTX]

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.

This is why I keep advocating for someone to go to the Wikipedia page on "Bountygate" and insert facts and references such as this. Insert facts from Favre's book, pictures of the Chiefs plastering "Kill the head and the body will die" language plastered in the locker room (see https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.c...ched-kill-the-head-and-the-body-will-die-too/), Tagliabue chastising and refutation of Goodell's findings, etc.

 

[saint_drago]

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.

 

[ilvdsnts]

The League wasn’t facing a multi billion dollar concussion lawsuit at the time.

Yes they were. that was the same summer that we got punished.

 

[Chopper Man]

The OP posted an article dated. 2006, is there new news on this Viking Bounty program?

Dude its from 2016 not 2006. Brett Farves book. The reason I brought this back is because so many people saying it was Karma how we got cheated, especially ViKQueens fans

 

[picnicwithfish]

Dude its from 2016 not 2006

Not sure I’m following you here

 

[Chopper Man]

By: Kyle Ratke| October 26, 2016 10:09 am ET

 

[picnicwithfish]

By: Kyle Ratke| October 26, 2016 10:09 am ET

I didn’t say it was from 2006. I replied to topic that the true bounty confession came out with favre’s book.

 

[Chopper Man]

I didn’t say it was from 2006. I replied to topic that the true bounty confession came out with favre’s book.

And I was responding to hopefuls post not yours.