Almost 1 in 10 people think every team has bounties or should if they dont?

[carpanfan96]

lol, i'm shocked so many people think this doesn't happen. this poo even happens in high school or college ball.

What most people don't understand is that in general football players have a different physique then normal people. The intent isn't to really hurt someone, but to knock them out of the game with as little long term damage done as possible. When you tackle or hit someone, you want them to feel it, be a bit slow to get up or hell even need some help to stand back up.

[MadHatter]

This poll over at espn shows that roughly 10-15% of people dont think anyone should take any form of punishment for this bounty poo over in Inbredville.

click deez

This to me, says, either they believe every team does this or that they think that it is just plain ok to intentionally injure a player regardless. The results showed that % held even in NC and SC (Mouse over each state to see the results breakdown).

really?. . . really?

Almost one of ten of you thinks every team does this? You really think its that hard to destroy someones knee in one shot? You really dont think you can crack someones neck and cause permanent damage with even slight effort? Seriously, if every team did this, the average career would be less than three years.

Players are not superhuman, they are made out of the same poo you and I are. When they hit each other that hard, aaaall that muscle mass doesnt do a thing to protect the thin strip of ligament holding their joints together and it doesnt do a thing to protect their spinal cord, ankle, arm, eyes or any other body part that can easily be destroyed permanently.

Those results are staggering in my book. 10 to 15% of espn sports fans think its ok to intentionally injure people in sports even if it cost a player his career. . . many of them claim they already think they do.

EDIT: sorry title should read "more than 1 out of 10"

Not surprising as about 90% of the people out there are complete morons....and I am giving 9 out of the other 10% the benefit of the doubt.

[Razeyfingers]

lol, i'm shocked so many people think this doesn't happen. this poo even happens in high school or college ball.

I played 5 different sports competitively and another 5 or so just for shits n giggles and I can tell you that I have never heard of it happening on one single team. I would estimate being on over 50 different sports teams and it never happened. . ever. Never heard of it.

How many teams were you on that did this? Was it one or a group of players? or the whole team?

Ya :lol:, I dont believe you, dont bother answering

[Razeyfingers]

Not saying the intent is to hurt a player, but definitely knock them out of the game for a period of time for sure. .

Well then we're not talking about the same thing cause what youre talking about isnt the bounty we're worried about. In fact, you, the lovely experts in the media and other people are wasting everyone's time by even mentioning this. YA, we know other teams probably have incentive systems but in this one Williams was INTENTIONALLY TRYING TO INJURE PLAYERS. . . . PERMANENTLY. When you ask a player to go for a knee or a neck or head, that is exactly what you are asking.

Spare us the "ohh he didnt want to really hurt them" bullshit k? How naive do you have to be to believe that?. . ohhh he just wanted to lightly bruise them for the game.

Do you also live like that? You live by that rational?. . . You go low in life huh, right for the knee? Anything for the W kind of guy right? like a coward that is, right?

[Galvatron]

Lot of Saints fans in Mississippi?

[Mr. Scot]

We're talking about an organized system of bounties, deliberately circumventing league rules, and giving specific off-the-books money for injuring people.

Plenty of teams congratulate and reward guys for hard hits and tough defense. Heck, the league itself has a bounty system for that. We generally refer to it as "free agency".

But remember, you're talking about a league where college teammates and off-field friends face each other on opposite sides of the field all the time; where your opponent this year might wind up being your teammate next year; where guys shake hands in sportsmanship postgame and some even gather to pray together; and where, as a group, they refer to themselves as "a fraternity".

Individual rivalries - and even venom-filled team rivalries - are okay within that atmosphere.

An organized system that rewards injuries to other members of your "fraternity" is not. In fact, to consider taking part in a system that may cause, pain, suffering, and even career-ending injury to friends and former/yet-to-be teammates, you've gotta be a pretty big douchbag.

That's the kind of guy the Saints wanted on their team.

I'd rather have a guy like Thomas Davis, or Sam Mills.

[Razeyfingers]

It's sad but the % is actually closer to 1 in 5 im seeing now. 20% voted that is fair to have an intentional injury bounty system.

33% voted no suspension for Williams or Peyton :lol:

wow I had no idea there were so many spineless cowards that watched football

[Mr. Scot]

It's sad but the % is actually closer to 1 in 5 im seeing now. 20% voted that is fair to have an intentional injury bounty system.

33% voted no suspension for Williams or Peyton :lol:

wow I had no idea there were so many spineless cowards that watched football

Something tells me a load of IP addresses from Louisiana are logged on right now.

[Razeyfingers]

Something tells me a load of IP addresses from Louisiana are logged on right now.

the map actually breaks down the results by state and you can see the % for each one. . . I checked, my friend. . . one out of every five of these lunatics on this very board think that its ok to have a bounty system. The results were 20% in every state.

scary huh, we drive around and work and go to school with these people.

[Mr. Scot]

the map actually breaks down the results by state and you can see the % for each one. . . I checked, my friend. . . one out of every five of these lunatics on this very board think that its ok to have a bounty system.

In fairness, possibly one of five people think you can judge how to run a football team by what works on Madden.

In the poll where they asked what was an appropriate penalty, 57% responded 'All of the Above" while some split the votes between fines, suspensions and loss of draft picks. Only 14% of the total voted for "None of the Above".

I actually find that encouraging.

[Razeyfingers]

:lol: that reminds of the line in Rainman when they ask Dustin Hoffman how much a stereo is, "bout a hundred dollars, ya bout a hundred dollars". . . . how much is a loaf of bread "bout a hundred dollars, ya bout a hundred dollars"