Today Commissioner Roger Goodell came down hard on the Saints for the "bounty" program. Saints head coach Sean Payton got suspended for a year starting April 1st. His suspension goes through the end of the upcoming season. Current Rams and former Saints Defensive Coordinator Gregg Williams has been suspended indefinably. The Saints General Manager Mickey Loomis got an eight game suspension as well. Assistant coach Joe Vitt will have to miss six games without pay for his role. The organization also got fined 500,000 and lost some draft picks. There is a lot of outrage because of the force of the Commissioner. Most people feel that this punishment is too harsh. I say it’s a little harsh but I can understand why he did it. The NFL has been working very hard on player safety and its importance. That’s why the harshness. He is trying to prove a point that the NFL is about player safety first and foremost.
That isn’t the only sports story of the day. Sports fans are aware that Peyton Manning is now officially a Denver Bronco. Denver’s old starting quarterback Tim Tebow has now left town. Tebow was traded today to the New York Jets. The Jets got Tebow and a seventh rounder. The Broncos got a fourth and sixth round picks. Tebowmania was crazy in Denver. There is no telling how wild it could get in the Big Apple. Time will only tell why the Jets want an even bigger circus around their program. Tebow most likely will be used in wildcat plays.
Lastly today was Robert Griffin III’s pro day at Baylor. I feel kind of bad for the kid. He moved his pro day to get more attention but no one could have seen all of this coming on the same day. His pro day would have been a top story on a regular sports news day but it is just an afterthought at this point. He will make tons of money so I won’t feel bad for him long. RG3 is projected as the second pick in the upcoming NFL Draft.
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