3/5/12

According to the article, a bounty, in terms of the NFL is paying players fees to target opponets for injury. In other words, the coaches and possibly some of the players are willing to pay another team memeber if they can knock an opposing player, probably a game changer, out of the game for good, in order to give their teams an advantage on the field and hopefully go on to win the game.

No, it is not "ok" for coaches and players to put out bounties. To put money down for someone to knock a player out of the game is purely disgusting. How could someone do that? Just think of it this way, if someone were to try and knock someone out of the game, and they succeed, then they could end someones career, injuring a player further than they wanted to. It is just a dirty way to play the game.

In my opinion, they would do it so that they could have a better chance at winning. If you can hurt a key player on the other team so bad that they can't come back into the game, then you automatically have a better chance at winning. The player isn't there to make as much of an impact as they normally would, therefore, putting the opposing team in a bad situation while, you can then, pick out that weakness to give your team a better chance to win.

Yes. They should get in trouble. In my opinoin, I think that the coach should be suspended for a minimum of 8 games. The fact that they coach knows that such a thing was going on and did nothing about it is horrid. Secondly, I think that the players should have to pay back the money and pay for the medical bills of the players that they hurt. That may sound a bit harsh, but that is just my opinion.

A type of bounty system happend in the NBA with the Boston Celtics. There was a player by the name of Len Elmore. He loved to takes charges. Cedric Maxwell and other Boston Celtic players had a bounty going on that if he were to take a charge against them, then they would step on his chest. The payment was only $10 but Mexwell says that "it was enough."

Surprisingly, the Celtics did not get in trouble. Actually, this didn't come out until about a day ago when all the news about the New Oreleans Saints. Maxwell said it as a defense to the Saints in a way that it happend in every sport. That it is something that just happens and you can't help it. It is too late to punish them now. This happend from 1977-1988.