The Senate wants to grill the NFL about bounties and the NBA, NHL, NCAA and Major League Baseball are invited, too according to the Associated Press. Sen. twinky Durbin is setting up a Judiciary Committee hearing about bounties in professional football and other major sports in the wake of news that New Orleans Saints players received extra cash for hits that hurt particular opponents. The assistant Senate majority leader, an Illinois Democrat, said Thursday he wants to examine whether federal law should make such bounty systems a crime. "Let's be real basic about it here. If this activity were taking place off of a sporting field, away from a court, nobody would have a second thought (about whether it's wrong). 'You mean, someone paid you to go out and hurt someone?'" Durbin said in a telephone interview before raising the issue on the floor of the Senate. "It goes way beyond the rules of any sporting contest, at least team contest, to intentionally inflict harm on another person for a financial reward," he said. His announcement came a day after the NFL took a harsh stand on bounties, suspending Saints head coach Sean Payton for all of next season, and indefinitely banning their former defensive coordinator, Gregg Williams. Saints general manager Mickey Loomis was barred for half of 2012, an assistant coach got a six-game ban, and the team also was docked two second-round draft picks and $500,000. "I am encouraged by what the National Football League did. What they came down with as a penalty on the New Orleans Saints was decisive and historic," Durbin said, adding that he thought the league was "taking this very seriously." Source: The Redzone
Utter bullcrap Worry a out fixing social security. Homelessness. Etc etc etc Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
In other words, He thinks You guys got off Light and he wants to see someone From N.O. in Jail! The NFL cannot Police itself in His Opinion
making it a federal crime? wow. what we need are federal laws that imprison politicians every time they abuse their authority
So yeah getting involved in this is definitely what they should be doing with our country on the verge of a war and social security hecked up and over 16 trillion dollars in debt. Yeah definitely should be worrying about bounty-gate
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