neugey

The weird thing is ... the NFL is the one that made a big stink about Bountygate and bounty systems!

I doubt any of the former players or their attorney really had this on their radar at all until the NFL went all nuts and public about it, calling out the Saints. Why didn't the NFL just keep it under the rug, what little impact the any alleged or attempted bounties actually had? It's just a desperation PR attempt by the NFL to hopefully get a jury member or two to vote in their favor, even though most of the lawsuits will involve players that never played for the Saints or whose medical conditions who have nothing to do with bounties.

Now we can see this tactic will backfire, and the owners just need to man up and give more medical compensation to former NFL players before it gets any more expensive for them. Other corporations have survived litigation and so can the NFL. I wish the NFL would just take it on the chin rather than playing gymnastics with the justice system.

And hmmm now that I think about it ... all these bounty cases will take a lot of time to sort out and their lawyers will probably claim the bounty cases need to be resolved before player injury trials can resume. So perhaps it's merely a stalling tactic.