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Check this out re Seattle:

“The trip will wind up costing him $100 — the fine from his fellow ‘Legion of Boom’ members for failing to finish the pick-six.”

Seahawks defenders pool money collected as a result of on-field actions. Just like Gregg Williams’ Saints.

Here’s my favorite part, related to why the Seahawks’ bounty program–which I can call a bounty program as accurately as the NFL called the Saints’ similar system a bounty program:

“Such monies may be donated to charities (other than those sponsored or established by individual players) or other institutions, or used for a postseason party.”

In other words you can collect and disburse money for a pay for performance program, even if it’s called “Legion of Boom”–boom, aka hard hits–so long as you effectively launder the cash.

Seriously: read the language again. Players can fine one another for on-field performance, pool the money, and disburse the money. They just have to disburse it via a “team party.” I haven’t seen all of Breaking Bad, but I’m pretty sure Saul, the show’s crooked lawyer, would approve.

So let’s get this absolutely clear.

Bad, illegal, evil: A group of NFL defensive players fine one another for on-field actions and pool money and then give one another the money directly = suspend the head coach for a year, attempt to do the same to the players involved, and launch a massive, year-long smear campaign against the team.

Acceptable, sanctioned, fine, according to the commissioner: A group of NFL defensive players fine one another for on-field actions and pool the money and then use the money to hire a dozen strippers and a DJ = look at how hard those guys play! That defense is so tough!

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