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A lot of new evidence regarding the New Orleans Saints' alleged bounty program was released to the public on Monday. The NFL met with 12 national reporters, including NFL.com's Steve Wyche,Cheap Jerseys China, who were shown the same evidence that the league presented to suspended players at a disciplinary hearing earlier that day. The NFL Players Association also released some of the information on its website (a warning: some of the language on the slides is quite graphic). Jim Varney of The Times-Picayune has a great round-up of the evidence shared during the presentation. None of the information disclosed was any more eye-opening -- and telling -- than a slide from January 7, 2011 that was shown before the Saints' playoff loss to the Seattle Seahawks. Now's the time to do our jobs, collect bounty $. No apologies. Let's go hunting, the slide reads. Accompanying the slide: A bunch of dollar bills and a picture of Duane Chapman,Adidas Superstar Supercolor Cz, a.k.a. Dog the Bounty Hunter. This says so much about the Saints' alleged bounty program. The team was brazen enough to document the program on computers after previously being investigated about it. And the players were still having fun with it; it was how the players and coaches got motivated. Wyche: Analyzing the evidence The NFL showed its evidence of the Saints' bounty program to the media on Monday. Steve Wyche took a look. More ... The Saints players have publicly recoiled at the use of the word bounty, but the evidence shows the team used that term internally in meetings. Other key evidence shown on the slides: 1. A total of $35,000 in bounties were placed on Brett Favre prior to the 2009 NFC Championship Game, not $10,Robert Newhouse Cowboys Jersey,000,Pablo Hernandez Chile Jersey, as had previously been believed. That included a $5,Nike Flyknit Air Max Solde Femme Rose Bleu Jaune Chaussures,000 pledge from assistant coach Joe Vitt,Cheap Boca Juniors Jersey, who will fill in for Sean Payton while he's suspended this season. Jonathan Vilma's $10,Uomo Kevin Durant Kd 8 Nike EP Scarpe Arancioni/Nere,000 bounty was reportedly confirmed by multiple sources. 2. Evidence showed that safety Roman Harper once was due $1,Baltimore Orioles Darren ODay Jersey,000 for knocking New York Giants running back Brandon Jacobs from a game. This was directly from a slide that appeared in a defensive team meeting. 3. Former Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams told investigators that he had rolled the dice with player safety and someone could have been maimed. 4. Williams and Vitt repeatedly said in the evidence that a bounty program existed. They provided much of the evidence. In arguing that they did not participate in a bounty program, players are essentially saying that Williams and Vitt are lying. The league also stressed to reporters that the majority of the league's evidence won't be shown to the public or the media. We are going to see this information spun in many different ways,Art Shell Raiders Jersey, but it's hard not to see all this evidence piling up and not believe in the existence of a bounty program. |
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