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Bountiful Injuries: the Saints Cash-for-Injury System

March 03
04:25 2012
Credit: Mike Turner

As it’s reported:

New Orleans Saints players and at least one assistant coach maintained a bounty pool of up to $50,000 the last three seasons to reward game-ending injuries inflicted on opposing players, including Brett Favre and Kurt Warner, the NFL said Friday. “Knockouts” were worth $1,500 and “cart-offs” $1,000, with payments doubled or tripled for the playoffs.
The NFL said the pool amounts reached their height in 2009, the year the Saints won the Super Bowl.
The league said between 22 and 27 defensive players were involved in the program and that it was administered by defensive coordinator Gregg Williams, with the knowledge of coach Sean Payton.

And for the longest time, I thought this kind of cash-for-injury system was already worked into defensive players’ contracts. Well, god bless them, anyway.

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