LOL @ Goodell.
If you want to come and say you're angered by the lying, then go ahead and say that. But to say it's 'deplorable' or not 'accepted' in the NFL is incredulous. If they're legal hits, why are they getting fined? Everyone tries to hit everyone as hard as possible. Whether or not a DC rewards a team for legal hits doesn't matter.
And I'll be patiently waiting for Mr. Goodell to fine the Bills and Redskins for the same thing that happened in New Orleans.
I think Goodell is worried about the long term viability of the NFL.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
The no bounty rule is posted in every locker room. This speaks to the integrity of the NFL and thwey have every right to defend their integrity.
If players ignored that sign, lied to the league investigators then they deserve whatever comes next when they're caughtDetroit Lions defensive end Lawrence Jackson took a similar stance.
“In every locker room, it’s posted clearly: No exceptions to the rule on bounties for hurting people,” he said at a sports conference in Boston Saturday. “I just don’t believe it’s right, on a human level.”
http://theadvocate.com/sports/saints...ocking-to.html
I'm surprised this didn't make it onto this thread, but Goodell has told teams that they have until March 30th to investigate their teams and report if a bounty program exists. If it isn't reported and found to be in place, the punishment is harsher.
I think if this had been Belichick it would have been half the season. Hitting the Saints isn't going to cause as much of a crapstorm as if it had been in a major media market.
Would anybody really be surprised to find out such a program exists on almost every NFL team? though maybe not as brazen as the Saints did it.
Go Gators!
I don't think we will lose football in my lifetime. I think what Goddell has to do is make the game as safe as possible. Its ironic to listen to guys on the radio who have realized that you can make it doing other things in life, still talk about the desire to run through a brick wall to play football again. The NFL is just doing their best to make the game as safe as possible.
I didn't think there was any real concern over it either, and I think it will always exist in some form, but if insurance companies stop insuring it'll become a secondary sport.
The NFL will always be able to buy insurance, it's high schools and colleges that are going to get priced out. It'll only take a couple of successful class action lawsuits I think.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
I read a piece last year and now I can't find it. It mentioned the injury rates in rugby and football. There aren't nearly the numbers of serious injuries in rugby because of the lack of pads. It seems that the players know they're not protected so they tackle accordingly while all the padding gives football players a false sense of security and they hit much harder because of that. I'll try to find the article.
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https://www.amazon.com/Charles-DeMaris/e/B07BD4JBQB
Not the article I was thinking about, but still interesting.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/arti...027053,00.html
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