Saints coach Payton suspended by NFL for 2012 season

[Will]

http://tsn.ca/nfl/story/?id=390981


Commissioner Roger Goodell has ordered the owners of all 32 NFL teams to make sure their clubs are not offering bounties like the New Orleans Saints did from 2009-11.


Goodell's memo instructs each team's principal owner and head coach to certify in writing by March 30 that no pay-for-performance system exists.


Goodell says Wednesday that bounty programs "are incompatible with our efforts to promote sportsmanship, fair play, and player safety."


He suspended Saints head coach Sean Payton for the entire 2012 season and GM Mickey Loomis for the first eight regular-season games, while banning former New Orleans defensive co-ordinator Gregg Williams indefinitely.

[ArgoRavi]

Didn't the Saints win the Super Bowl during that time period? If so, maybe they should be stripped of that as well. What an uproar that would cause!

[Will]

Yes the Saints won the Super Bowl in 2009-2010. They defeated my Vikings in the NFC championship game that year and one of the allegations made is that a bounty was placed on Brett Favre during that game. Coincidentally, one of the players mentioned (Remi Ayodele) played for the Vikings last season and was cut today.

[argonaut11xx]

looks like he may be able to coach during the appeals process...the other news was that Payton has asked his mentor, Bill Parcells to be the interm coach during the suspension...interesting stuff...