More NFL Thuggery: Bounties to hurt players.

Readers here know I'm not a fan of the NFL.  Ever since their rank bigotry over Rush Limbaugh's effort to take over part ownership of a team and the subsequent treatment where the league treated him like an axe-murderer over his political views while giving everyone else a pass, I have done all I can to avoid watching any game... hard to do since the wife is such a rabid fan.

Now, word comes out that players have been paid to hurt other players... a bounty... $10,000 or more for some hits... hits that injure, hits that cripple.

Anyone involved in this... coach, player or administrator or owner, should be banned from the NFL for life.

Period.

That's unlikely to happen, but that's what needs to be done.  That they WON'T do it... well, that speaks to, for them, the bigger problem:

They got caught.

This re-enforces my disgust.  And I played football from little league up until I was 29 in the military.

More teams implicated in NFL bounty schemes

SIMON EVANS

Last updated 09:56 05/03/2012

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Reuters

GOTCHA: New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning is sacked from behind by Washington Redskins defensive lineman Phillip Daniels.

The Buffalo Bills and the Tennessee Titans are the latest National Football League (NFL) teams to be linked to "bounty" schemes which rewarded big hits on players.

The NFL announced that their own investigation had uncovered that defensive coordinator Gregg Williams ran such a rewards scheme, including informal bonuses for knocking players out of a game, during three years at the Saints from 2009.

The issue is of major concern to the NFL which is worried about player safety issues following a series of lawsuits from former players relating to concussions.

The league has yet to announce sanctions on the Saints but fines and suspensions are among the options available to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.

Former Washington Redskins strong safety Matt Bowen said on Saturday that a similar "bounty", made up of funds generated by the players themselves, was in operation during Williams' time with the team.

The Buffalo News reported on Sunday that cash incentives for big hits were in place while Williams was the Bills' head coach from 2001 through 2003.

Former safety Coy Wire told the paper that an atmosphere of "malicious intent" was in place when he arrived at the team in 2002.

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God help the Seahawks if they had anything to do with this garbage.