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The author of this commentary is SPOT on and expresses EXACTLY how I feel! DAMMNIT!!!!!

Forecast: Anger over Saints situation should be focused on Payton, Goodell
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Posted on March 23, 2012 at 2:47 PM

Ralph Malbrough / Contributing Writer

I can sum up how I feel about bounty fest in one simple sentence; It’s made me so mad I want to rail at someone for ruining the best Sundays in the fall I’ve ever had but I’m not sure who deserves it more.

Sean Payton is a great candidate to focus some anger on. The arrogance, which helped him win a Super Bowl, just might burn his coaching career to the ground. How delusional and reckless was Payton? He went full Richard Nixon Watergate cover-up mode on something the NFL would have treated as minor traffic violaton if he’d have just come clean after the 2010 season.

Roger Goodell, if the Saints had admitted the bounties existed after the 2010 season, probably would have taken a 2nd round draft pick and maybe suspended Payton a couple games.

Bad? Definitely. The NFL still would have made a huge deal of it to do the whole, “We take player safety very seriously” song and dance but it wouldn’t have been the circus it is now. Congratulations Sean, you turned a routine traffic stop for a minor violation into a car chase involving the entire police department, TV station helicopters, and CBS breaking into the Bold and the Beautiful to cover it live. Well done.

If you are wondering if I have anger towards Mickey Loomis, I do but Sean Payton runs the Saints and if he wanted the bounties stopped they would have been. If he had told Joe Vitt to come clean to Goodell it would have been done. Hey Sean, you must have missed every political scandal of the last 30 years to think YOU could pull off lying and keep everything in the closet away from the light of day.

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