NFL's big hit: Will the Saints' penalty change the game? Saints coach Sean Payton will lose $7.5 million in salary after being suspended for the 2012 season for failing to stop the team's bounty program. / By Bruce Kluckhohn, US Presswire Video: Is Sean Payton's penalty too harsh? Stephen A. Smith and Skip Bayless discuss the punishments for the Saints' bounty program. Sean Payton, Saints coach, suspended for season Meting out unprecedented punishment for a crush-for-cash bounty system that targeted key opposing players, the NFL suspended New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton without pay for next season and indefinitely banned the teamand#8217;s former defensive coordinator, Gregg Williams. Haugh: Sean Payton's harsh penalty a just one CHICAGO (MCT) — From memory, I still can recite the start of Saints coach Sean Payton's stirring pregame speech to his alma mater's football team before a 2009 Naperville (Ill.) Central football game. Sean Payton and the Saints traded their souls to bring New Orleans a Super Bowl title The head coach and others did whatever it took to capture the coveted crown for the city. Now they must pay. 'Free Sean Payton' T-shirts already selling big Hundreds of shirts sell within minutes of the announcement of the penalties The Fifth Down: Sean Payton Meets Enemy: It's Us Casual fans are where the league's growth comes from. Roger Goodell could not afford to leave the impression that the N.F.L. was lawless. Column: The day the Dat died in New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton won't be back in the Superdome for at least a year. / By Jim Hudelson, The Shreveport Times via AP NEW ORLEANS (USA TODAY) — Maybe that 2009 Super Bowl season was just too perfect, too magical, too heavenly. Saints' coach Sean Payton suspended for season by NFL Posted March 21, 2012, at 4:11 p.m. Last modified March 21, 2012, at 6:57 p.m. Sean Payton Suspended One Year, Saints Lose Draft Picks In Bounty Punishment [Scrutiny Of The Bounty] # scrutinyofthebounty The NFL was promising to swiftly decide the punishment for the Saints' bounty program, and they were not lying—despite the NFLPA's plea to conduct its own investigation first. Today the league ruled, and the penalties are not crippling, but they are significant. As reported near-simultaneously by Adam Schefter and Pro Football Talk : More »
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Thursday, March 22, 2012
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