Report: Brett Favre's Vikings had a bounty program too {non tos language in link} (1 Viewer)

[El Caliente]

Uh . . . Irish? smh

He is a former football player turned actor, not a freaking Hollywood script writer. Though the exaggerations that took place in the movie, it might as well have been the Irish.

I love how this article spends like 5 paragraphs talking about the Vikings bounty program (which a players admits to), and then the final 13 is spent on
the Saints bounty program (which no player admits to).

 

[BELOWSEALEVEL]

Somebody page the ginger

 

[Surviving Saint]

Goodell -Its time to suspend Brad Childress for 1 year. lol

 

[SaintsJunkie]

We didn't have one but it might be why they thought we did

 

[Saints 4 life]

Somebody page the ginger

 

[insidejob]

So, anyone actually think the league does anything about this revelation? I mean, there's a player admitting to what we were accused of and were HEAVILY punished for.

This league is a joke.

 

[El Caliente]

If the league did take Minny's 1st round pick, would it be the one they paid for Sam Bradford, or the one for the following year?

 

[champ76]

Uh . . . Irish? smh

He's on a roll.

 

[daybreaker]

Still sloppy writing.

Much like the Vikings, Saints players operated a reward system for hurting and incapacitating opposing stars. “It wasn’t a bounty, where you name one guy and offer money for him,” said Hargrove. “It was incentives for good plays, hard hits, changing the game. We all put in, and maybe you could get $100, $200, $500. That’s what it was.”

Says we have the same bounty program as the Vikes, who paid to injure specific players, and then one line later quotes Hargrove who says we SPECIFICALLY DIDNT target players, and it was just for good plays, not injuries.

People are still buying Goodell's bull 4 years later that they will claim we were paying to injure people and as proof use a quote that says the exact opposite, and not even realize it. Because in their mind, any Saints player saying "we were paid for good hits, big plays, etc" is admitting to paying for injuries. They just stop listening at "we were paid..." and fill in the rest with "to injure brett favre" because thats the only narrative they know.

 

[SaintSeb]

Thought Hogan KO'd this network of sites? It's a shame they're still operational.

 

[B-Train]

Ironic that the Vikings throwing rocks actually live in a "glass house" now when you look at their new stadium.

 

[B-Train]

All you peeps that have Twitter, need to tweet the hell out of this. Let all those haters know what's up.

I'm gonna do my bit to spread the word.

 

[N8toe]

Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't the Vikings punter Chris Kluwe the biggest finger pointer around when the Saints were being investigated? Ironic isn't it?

 

[AARPSaint]

Never forget that it was Jimmy Kennedy and Brad Childress who got the ball rolling on Bountygate. Kennedy told Childress at halftime that ''It was like they had a bounty on Favre'' or words to that effect. Then, it turned into a game of Gossip, where Kennedy's opinion morphed into an allegation. The Saints continue to suffer from the loss of draft picks and the only defensive coordinator who built a strong defense in the Sean Payton era. Of course, Gregg Williams had to be fired. But the subsequent seasons have produced a precipitous decline on the defensive side ever since.
Furthermore, it is difficult to believe that the Saints do not continue to be under extra scrutiny. Were all of Browner's penalties accurately assessed, for example? Do the Saints seem to get the short end of controversial penalty calls? Some--but not all-- of the paranoia and whining about penalties we see on the Gameday Board and the Super forum is justifiable in my view and is a residue of the Bounty nonsense.

 

[TheRamboTX]

We didn't have one but it might be why they thought we did

Agreed.