Saints were paid bounty to injure Brett Favre during 2009 NFC Championship

Injury claims compensation can be easy to get with the help of a personal injury solicitor.

Did anyone else think it was Karma when Sean Payton got his leg broken on the sidelines, this past season?

Lifetime ban for Williams and Payton, massive fines for the players who made those hits, also there were at least six more roughing penalties that could have been thrown against Saints, involving Farve, it was the only way they could win, what a classless team, those referees share blame too, either too chicken or bought off, the whole game seemed fishy, with every call going against Vikings

Everyone likes hard hits, hard hits cause intimidation and creates competitive advantages in football games. If you hit a QB far away from the play ( like Sharper and McCray did) behind the line of scrimmage after the play has advanced far ahead of the line of scrimmage, on the opposite side of the field, and blindside him when he cant even hear you coming for the crowd noise, with the sole intent of causing injury to that player, you should be ejected, suspended and fined. If the team actually incents the player to do this, they should be sanctioned severely as well. This would not be any more diffiult to call than intentional grounding.The notion that "everyone does this" sounds pretty good until you hear the players talk. They talk about hard hits and big plays, but NOT for rewarding players for specifically causing injury to specific players.In the NFL, people respect their opponents livelihood.  It is precisely this specific intent to injure which must be eliminated from football. There are sports whose object it is  to injure opponents like boxing, MMA, etc. Perhaps players who really want to prove how tough they are in this way should try their hand at those.

Hey guys, the Saints had two flags for roughing the passer throughout that season, and three for unnecessary roughness.

Playing dirty?  Give me a damn break.

The NFL should strip them of the 2009 superbowl championship and let the Colts and Vikings play a game during preseason to determine the REAL 2009 superbowl champs, cause this is an injustice to both teams.....These grown men have young kids looking up to them, its disgusting!!!!!

They should bar them from any play-off games in the 2012/2013 season plus lose of draft picks.

Doesn't this qualify as conspiracy to commit felonious assault?

And they can strip the Super Bowl title and leave it blank, highlighting for as long as they choose what took place.

There should be a huge financial payment, loss of 1st round draft choices for a period of time & finally strip them of their Super Bowl title & rings. If they did it to the Vikings, they did it to every other team they came up against to get to that Super bowl

And this is why i watch Baseball.

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I think that ALL the coaches involved should be band for life from football! That would send a very loud and clear message to everyone that there is a line that you will not cross.

Great blog there Aaron, big Buddy.  Keep up the good work!

Don

As much as I would love to take that win... That happened in the NFC Championship game. It is impossible to award the Vikings with a Superbowl win, as the only possible way to make it fair would be to disqualify the Saints for the 2009 Super Bowl.

In essence, if the Saints are disqualified, then the Colts will have won the Super Bowl.

While this "investigation" is going on...how about the League taking a look at the abysmal officiating during that game... the officials on the field that turned a blind eye to what was going on. Were some of them being "compensated" as well for NOT penalizing Saint's defense players for those hits? Especially since NFL VP of Officiating Mike Pereira ADMITTED that the officials "missed" calls against the Saints for illegal hits on Favre. And YES, I believe the League should strip the Saints of the 2009 victory including their rings. They better send a clear message that this stuff WILL NOT be tolerated...and that there are consequences to be paid!

Prosecute all of those bastards. They act like a common street gang. Put them in jail Ike gang bangers. Get the United States Attorney on this now.

Felony Assault, plain and simple........

Ban all the coaches and players like they did the black sox and pete rose in baseball.

There is so much homophobia and gender bashing in the comments, it's disgusting. 

Roger Goodell, your full of shit, NFL is known for this, in order for those teams who can't beat, they beat you by playing dirty. WELCOME TO NFL Mother -&^%$#

Fuck those pussy saints.

What a bunch of fags.

Imagine that - corrupt players and coaches hoping to take another player out.  Add the corrupt media coverage (yes, the media wanted a feel-good story) and the corrupt officiating (officials missed several calls) and the Saints make for one of the biggest scams in Super Bowl history.  Go Bears!!

if only this was true?

Oddly enough, the Vikings DO have a championship - The 1969 NFL Championship (Look it up).

that's the only way the Viqueens could ever win a Super Bowl 

i'd still take that championship, years after the fact.