Alright, I'm on board with all of you conspiracy theorists!!! I was a holdout, thinking that surely there was no real reason the NFL would lie, but the more I see about this issue the more it's blatantly obvious that something stinks. A lot of shadiness around this whole thing.

Is it possible to sue Cole for defamation?

:popcorn:

He made sure not to mention any names in his report but I don't think that alone could clear him. He made a generalized statement about a specific aspect of the team during a specific game. Any of those players could say it was slander IMO.

LOL $1000 ? Really ? These guys make that for 1 minute of work. Thats like $1 to them,lol. I don't think a player would even spend the time to pick up that check.
Thats like trying to pay a professional hit man $5 to kill your wife,lol. Then claiming it on your tax return.

Who & why would the Saints keep a ledger. It doesn't make sense.

Exactly! The more this goes on, the worse it's looking for ol' Goodell & Co.

I don't see how any of this could stand up in a court of law unless they have a witness who either wrote the ledger or saw first hand what was going on. Either way, I saw the report from Vilma's lawyer that said the ledger awarded players for clean hits and punished for illegal ones.

Heck when they've patched up dem leaks and got the . cough..cough... evidence running, they have to publicise other stuff to account for the alleged continuing bounty program in 2010 /2011.

Gosh! we will be flooded with leaked . cough..cough... information!