Bountygate was a travesty of a miscarriage of justice, almost exactly the same as Deflategate. The NFL repeatedly made misleading leaks and later even on the record lies to the media, and members of the media never really seemed to catch on that they were being duped. I guess because if you are in charge of a multibillion dollar business, why would you outright fabricate a story about having evidence implicating one of your own employees in a serious offense? But Goodell and the league office proved that they will undermine their own business for the purpose of... I don't even know, demonstrating that they're tough on (alleged) rule breakers whether or not they can actually prove rules were broken? I have no effing clue why they have done this multiple times. It's weirdly McCarthyist. It makes no sense.