I have talked enough about this topic, but I am truly relieved that the NFL has stuck to its guns over the bounty scheme issue. National Football League Commissioner Roger
Goodell upheld the one-year suspension he gave New Orleans Saints coach
Sean Payton for trying to cover up a bounty program that paid players
bonuses for injuring their opponents. Payton, 48, appealed the suspension, set to
begin on April 16, last week. Goodell handed down the decision -- the
stiffest punishment ever imposed on an NFL team and its leadership -- on
March 21 after he said Payton lied to the NFL about the program. The
commissioner also upheld a $500,000 fine on the Saints, the loss of two
draft picks, a half-season suspension for General Manager Mickey Loomis
and a six-game ban for assistant Joe Vitt. To do less than this would have been capitulation and cowardly. All credit to you Roger.
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