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After a lengthy investigation conducted by the NFL's security department, the league announced Friday that 22 to 27 defensive players on the New Orleans Saints maintained a "pay for performance" program that included "bounty" payments administered by then-defensive coordinator Gregg Williams during the 2009, 2010 and 2011 seasons.
The program runs in violation of league rules, and the investigation showed that Saints players received $1,500 for a "knockout" hit and $1,000 for a "cart-off" hit with payouts doubling or tripling during the team's three playoff appearances.
A memo sent to clubs throughout the league included a statement on how Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma put up $10,000 cash as a bounty before a playoff game, a source familiar with the memo told NFL Network insider Jason La Canfora.
The memo also said Mike Ornstein, a noted marketing agent who has close ties to Saints head coach Sean Payton and has worked with him on projects in the past, put up money as a bounty at least twice.
The program also entailed payments for interceptions and fumble recoveries, which also violates league rules against non-contract bonuses. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell will determine the appropriate discipline based on the investigation, the league said in a statement.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000...gram-from-20092011?module=HP11_headline_stack
 
mike honcho said:
The program also entailed payments for interceptions and fumble recoveries, which also violates league rules against non-contract bonuses.
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so put the bounty's, err performance incentives in the contract. case closed. <g> most sports contracts have performance clauses.
 
The thing is that the league has to know that this happens on most, if not all, teams at one time or another. The only problem the league has is that people found out about it and now they have to act on it to save face.

Honestly the strangest thing about this thing to me is that there has to be a bounty put on the opposing teams best players. It seems to me that common sense tells you that knocking the other teams best player, or players, out of a game increases your chances of success.
 
Read something today that Ronnie Lott said this isn't anything new. Incentives are even done in schools only instead of money, they give the kids little stickers to put on their helmets. It's the intent of the action that has everyone so upset. Instead of getting a sticker for a touchdown, a pro might get a grand for knocking someone out of the game. And some of this just isn't about the money, yet in the end, everything is about the money. If a good player is knocked out, that might give the opposing team a better shot at winning, thus winning more money for everyone on that team. Of course there are those guys who are just mean and nasty and their goal is to just hurt someone. In that case, putting an incentive on that will only increase the damage. How can you stop any of this anyway?
 
The problem is that you can't prove any of this. Not like anyone will admit to it. Drew Brees is also pissed at The Saints for Franchising him instead of offering him a long term contract.
 
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