Saints HC Sean Payton suspended for ONE YEAR

• wkfan

  http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/7718136/sean-payton-new-orleans-saints-banned-one-year-bounties
  
  Ka-Boom!
  
  Saints lose 2 draft picks too.
  
  Fair or not?
  
  Discuss
• sleeper

  

  It's fair, but I have a feeling this goes on in other places. The NFL has to punish the Saints pretty hard to avoid any lawsuits that could take place in the future.
• like_that

  

  This needed it's own thread. Nobody was talking about it on the random chatter thread.
• Gblock

  wow i heard it was 2 2nd round draft picks..were they both this year or one this year and one next?
• wildcats20

  

  One this year and one next.
• Commander of Awesome

  

  NFL throwing down the pwn hammer.
• DeyDurkie5

  

  holy SHIT
• Rotinaj

  

  OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• justincredible

  

  Sounds a little extreme to me.
• Raw Dawgin' it

  

  justincredible;1123043 wrote:Sounds a little extreme to me.

  Except they were rewarding players for injuring other players. It seems extreme unless you're the guy with a blown out knee cause some LB wanted to win the pool that week.
• like_that

  

  justincredible;1123043 wrote:Sounds a little extreme to me.

  Cry4fail disagress.
• GOONx19

  

  It's definitely a message to all the other teams. The league knows this has the potential to be a huge problem. No coach is gonna let it go on anymore if they're worried about losing their job.
• Rotinaj

  

  justincredible;1123043 wrote:Sounds a little extreme to me.

  Seems like all the analysts ive heard recently thought he'd get somewhere between a 2 and 4 game suspension. 1 year does seem kinda crazy.
• DeyDurkie5

  

  It does remind me of my 2 one month bans in a row. Damn you rogercredible!!!
• Iliketurtles

  

  DeyDurkie5;1123054 wrote:It does remind me of my 2 one month bans in a row. Damn you rogercredible!!!

  Haha reps.
• shook_17

  

  we need shurmur to run a bounty program
• robj55

  

  should have been fired
• sportchampps

  Damn craziness I've heard they went one year bc they think it would be hard to police him if you only give him a 8 game suspension meaning he could run things over the phone and behind closed doors. They also lied to the NFL several times
• McFly1955

  

  As a Saints fan, this is ridonkulous.
• Gblock

  wow compare to belicheat and what they got this seems a lil extreme
• Mulva

  

  Goodell on a power trip? I'm stunned.
• justincredible

  

  Gblock;1123259 wrote:wow compare to belicheat and what they got this seems a lil extreme

  
  Indeed. Pats get slap on wrist and all evidence destroyed by the league.
• lhslep134

  

  I'm sorry but I'm not caught up in this "bounty" bullsh*t. These players, for the most part, are going out to knock out as many people on the other team as they can already, and there's a POLICE SYSTEM already in place. It's called fines for illegal hits. So now a few thousand changes hands for hits within the rules, and it's an issue? Aren't these guys already paid to do the same thing? The refs have the power to flag, and the league has the power to fine. Seems like they already have a way of policing the actual conduct at issue here (the tackling).
• shook_17

  

  wow. seems a little harsh.
• Fred Flintstone

  I also posted this on the NFL thread but Sapp claims that Shockey is the snitch in this whole situation.
  
  http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/Warren-Sapp-Jeremy-Shockey-Bountygate-New-Orleans-Saints-snitch-032112