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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.I for one refuse to pig pile on Saints fans.
Sweet Christmas, is that a real Tweet? What on Earth is the NFLPA going to do to anyone?
Anything short of suspensions, $1,000,000 and two first rounders is a whitewash, IMO.
Given the sensitivity of some factions of the Patriots fan base in regards to Spygate, how quick some have begun throwing stones from our glass house.I for one refuse to pig pile on Saints fans.
The next objective and/or intelligent statement that you make in this forum will be the first.
Earlier on you suggested that we didn't know what was on the tapes. If you were as objective and intelligent as you claim, you'd know that we do know what was on the tapes, because Jay Glazer leaked footage of one of them. It showed sideline, scoreboard, line of scrimmage. And I heard something about cheerleaders' asses.
I'm pretty sure the media will make this a bigger story than what it is. I think quite a few teams besides the Saints have "bounties", they were just better at hiding them. I don't remember the Saints being a "dirty" team. The only way to know for sure is to see if there are an abnormal number of injuries when teams play the Saints.
(I do not endorse bounties. Dirty players will be dirty players.)
I for one refuse to pig pile on Saints fans.
They are talking about NFL players
I will go a step farther and say it is also a distinct lack of understanding what a bounty program can do to gain a competitive edge.
Let's use a hypothetical here:
Say the Jets have a bounty program. Say they play the Pats in week 2 and they have a $100k bounty to take Brady out for the season. If someone actually collects that bounty, the Jets gain a monumemental competitive advantage which ten thousand Spygate tapes couldn't achieve.
Boo-hoo, Katrina, boo-hoo.
I wonder whether New Orleans will be treated with kid gloves because of the horrors of Katrina -- some of the most famous of which happened in and around the Superdome.
I'll take a pass on that.
3 reasons:
1. It's ignorant when other teams pigeon hole the Pats as cheaters for Spygate
2. Saints fans aren't even in the top 25 of fanbases who harp on the "Cheatriots" horsecrap.
3. I refuse to disrespect Phereins team like that. He is a class act as a visiting poster, when the overwhelming majority of rival team posters are trolling like its closing time at the club..... I'd take him over half the posters on this board.
So, who do you guys think was the Saints player/coach who ratted?
From Peter Kings story that Rico linked to..
Goodell said "significant and credible'' new information was forthcoming latein 2011..
Earlier on you suggested that we didn't know what was on the tapes. If you were as objective and intelligent as you claim, you'd know that we do know what was on the tapes, because Jay Glazer leaked footage of one of them. It showed sideline, scoreboard, line of scrimmage. And I heard something about cheerleaders' asses.
Yeah, that's way worse than intentionally injuring dudes.
Peter King story:
"Early indications late Friday afternoon were that the sanctions against the Saints and their former defensive coordinator who the league said administered the bounties, Gregg Williams, will be severe. The league said the penalties could include suspensions, fines and loss of draft choices -- the latter of which could be particularly damaging to the Saints, who do not own a first-round pick this year. Their first choice will be late in the second round, the 59th overall ... unless Goodell takes the pick away."
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"There's little doubt the penalties on the Saints will be worse than what the league did to the Patriots for the Spygate scandal in 2007. "
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"Payton, the league says, was not "a direct participant'' in the bounty program but was aware of it and did nothing to stop it."
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"• Players pooled their own money to fund the bounty club, and players were paid $1,500 if a foe was knocked out of the game, and $1,000 if an opponent was carted off the field.
• Between 22 and 27 players contributed to the bounty pool over a three-year period, with amounts guaranteed if a certain opposing player was knocked out of the game."
Given the sensitivity of some factions of the Patriots fan base in regards to Spygate, how quick some have begun throwing stones from our glass house.