{"id":1679,"date":"2012-03-08T16:17:17","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T21:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inkstarzz.com\/sports\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2012-03-08T16:17:17","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T21:17:17","slug":"defending-the-saints-vs-lil-wayne-and-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/2012\/03\/08\/defending-the-saints-vs-lil-wayne-and-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Defending The Saints vs Lil Wayne And Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I often see things on TV,  the internet and hell, I even hear stuff on the radio that I find completely annoying but never as much as I did this past week within the world of sports.<\/p>\n<p>As we know, the New Orleans Saints have been involved in what just about everyone is calling &#8220;Bounty Gate&#8221;. The name alone is pure stupidity, but I digress.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inkstarzz.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/wayne.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/inkstarzz.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/wayne-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"wayne\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/wayne-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/wayne.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The claim of the case, basically says that the Saints sent hits out to injure players on the field. The topic itself has been hard to stomach because it really seems as though it has been blown completely out of proportion. With the whole topic getting on my nerves, nothing hit the nerve more than hearing one of the best rappers in the country spit something so weak out his mouth regarding this so-called &#8220;Bounty Gate&#8221;. Hip hop artist Lil Wayne did a video for his <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/38060755\">Sports Corner<\/a> where he gave his 2 cents and I&#8217;m pretty sure everyone in New Orleans is ready to give him those 2 cents back.<\/p>\n<p>In his video, Lil Wayne stated that he feels the Saints should be striped of their super bowl and Sean Peyton along with others should be fired as the NCAA would do a college football program. Well, opinion is opinion, and here&#8217;s mine.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Bounty System&#8221; that everyone is so up in arms about is known to have been implemented since the early days of football. The &#8220;knock players out the game&#8221; mindset has been here well before any of the players that are involved in the Saints case. While the verbage was probably different, this act has been around.<\/p>\n<p>Defensive players get bigger contracts for being known as big hitters and they make sports center highlights for the &#8220;Jacked up&#8221; moments of putting that wide out flat on his back. Am I saying it&#8217;s right? No, but I&#8217;m saying it happens. The Saints problem differs because the Saints got caught.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970203370604577263580381162426.html?mod=wsj_share_tweet\">Wallstreet Journal<\/a> did a study where they watched every Saints game from 2009-2011, which is 48 regular-season and six postseason games. They found only 18 plays where players ended up leaving the field injured against the New Orleans defense. Do your research and let me know if that correlates to a dirty defense.<\/p>\n<p>Like I stated earlier, the problem with the Saints is the wording, when the average person hears something like &#8220;Cart him off&#8221; it flashes as intent to injure, and I&#8217;m hoping that&#8217;s not the case. The Saints situation should have been worded differently. They should have said hard hits $1,900, harder hits $5,000.  The terms they used are what have them in this bind.<\/p>\n<p>The National Football League was built around hard hits and players being hurt and all the NFL does is box up those images and sell them for us to enjoy other&#8217;s agony.<\/p>\n<p>If the Saints went out there with the intent to hurt others, then they need to be punished. However, <a href=\"http:\/\/inkstarzz.com\/sports\/2012\/03\/whats-the-true-meaning-of-a-nfl-bounty\/\">Mr.Goodell<\/a> and Lil Wayne should make sure they check the tapes and not get speaking in slang mixed up with actions of reality. A kill shot doesn&#8217;t mean a shot that kills in football, it means a hard hit. Can a player get suspended for saying that? Can a team lose a Super Bowl for saying that? Remember guys&#8230;..this isn&#8217;t college football, its the NFL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often see things on TV, the internet and hell, I even hear stuff on the radio that I find completely annoying but never as much as I did this past week within the world of sports. As we know, the New Orleans Saints have been involved in what just about everyone is calling &#8220;Bounty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[811,1195,1223],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}