Quote Originally Posted by mischkin04:
So what should I do, pound Saints to win the Sympathy Bowl? I'd rather wait for another devastating hurricane to blow through.
You're close----
if you look closer you will see---It's a lose-lose for the Saints this season thanks to the judgement handed down for the situation.
Sean Payton is absorbing----like a body guard----punches that are questionably more deserved of other people----these people knowing this truth----are likely still on the team----and all these guys, are like family to the rest of the team----so when you lose a guy in your family, and then he gets hit by a bus driven by a greed-motivated driver----it makes it kinda hard to get lost in moments of victory, when you know part of the punishment, is not being able to speak to your suspended coach
Just imagine-----Saints have a dream season, win the Superbowl!----Do you not think anyone on that team has deep emotional connections to Sean Payton?----they do---and guess what----they are not allowed to contact him-----they have to act as if he is dead and only after a the moon rotates around the sun a certain amount of times will his means of communication be allowed to rise again---as judged by the judges who judged this case.
In defense to the NFL----they had to make a point that they will in no way tolerate the rewarding of doing an inhumane act---in this case----wanting to give a guy an injury----yet this subject is extremely tricky, because hard hits are what you need---and hard hits create injuries----YET! there are ethical ways to deliver hard hits, and justified "ethical" injuries----for example, if I have to do a line up drill as ball carrier against Ray Lewis----9 out of 10 times i will likely get hurt if we both go full steam in the most professional manner to play the sport----
now lets say he is the ball carrier----If I play the sport as it's intended, I will likely 10 out of 10 times never injure Ray Lewis---however, if i wanted to take a cheap shot, I could throw my body helmet first at his knee----he would then have the right to take his helmet off and beat me to a pulp----and I would take it because I know how wrong I was to not want to look stupid going in a drill against him.
but for the NFL to---in a sense----make it a burden for the Saints to have any success this season---is an unethical judgement that I wish would be reversed----but I am just a fan with a perspective and do not know the intimate details that the people involved need to know---my knowledge is limited to what news sources want to provide me based on knowledge that people wanted to provide them.
At the end----I wish that the Saints will get back their coach and continue being awesome----because I love watching their team play---but how can I root for them to win knowing the deal with Sean, who is still very much part of that team. Truth is---I can't genuinely be happy---and that may be more wrong than the bounty thing...AND YET AGAIN----i HIGHLY DOUBT, the Saints were the only ones out of 32 that may or may not have been rewarding unethical acts on the football field---I believe the punishment made a hell of an example, and at this point, the NFL can make a heavenly example by showing their mercy in a lightening of the unjust punishment.