Starting in 2009 from 2011 football season for the NFL, the New Orleans Saints defensive players had a deal with their coach. The deal was that the players would get paid extra money for making big hits on the opposing team. In 2009 they were targeting high profile quarterbacks like Brett Favre and Kurt Warner in the 2009-2010 playoffs. The NFL started investigating the Saints in 2010 and then this past 2011-2012 season they confirmed that this deal was happening.
Jonathan Vilma, Anthony Hargrove, Will Smith, and Scott Fujita are the players that had a connection with the deal. These four players will meet with Rodger Goodell, the NFL Commissioner, about their suspension and other action dealing with this scandal. There will also be three players representing the NFLPA (National Football League Players’ Association) in the trials for the four players. Vilma and several teammates including the head coach Joe Vitt, testified in a federal case claiming they were not intending to injure any other players. Only Smith played on Sunday, when the Saints lost to Washington. Vilma was placed on the physically unable to perform list, while Fujita sat out Cleveland’s loss to Philadelphia with a leg injury. Hargrove was cut by Green Bay during the preseason.
Before Goodell meets with the other players he will meet with Vilma on Monday in New York to discuss his suspension for the 2012 football season. He can still reinstate their suspension time.
3 comments:
I i think this was a good choice of topic and u explained it well.
Although I'm a Falcons fan, I didn't agree with Godell's deisoion to suspend those players without more evidence however, I'm glad that everything is working out for those players who got the suspension upheld.
I don't know too much about sports but this post gave me a nice insight of what is going on in the football world.
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