NFL suspends Saints coach Sean Payton for season over bounty program
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The NFL today suspended New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton for the 2012 season and General Manager Mickey Loomis for eight games in connection with “bounties” the team put on opposing players. Also, the league fined the Saints $500,000 and took away their second-round choices in the college draft this year and in 2013.
Former Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams, who recently was hired by the St. Louis Rams, was banned from the league indefinitely.
The league found that Saints players maintained a bounty pool of as much as $50,000 over the last three seasons to award New Orleans players for delivering game-ending injuries to the opposition, paying bonuses of $1,000 for “cart-offs” and $1,500 for knockouts.
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