ESPN Gregg Williams to Join Rams

[AzStevenCal]

.... and you will be proven wrong.

(and I'll be the first to acknowlege if you are right.)

P.S. There no way players and coaches can throw in enough money into a pot to cover the league fines for illegal hits.

I'd be surprised by a lifetime ban also but if he really did continue it after the league instructed him not to, I wouldn't completely rule it out. It's the one thing that separates his actions from all the others that have instituted or countenanced bounties. Still, I'd be surprised by anything more than a one season ban.

Steve

 

[Crazy Canuck]

I'd be surprised by a lifetime ban also but if he really did continue it after the league instructed him not to, I wouldn't completely rule it out. It's the one thing that separates his actions from all the others that have instituted or countenanced bounties. Still, I'd be surprised by anything more than a one season ban.

Steve

I certainly believe he should be fined and suspended, but highly doubt that it'll be for a season.

P.S. Bounties amongst players with something added by a coach are pretty common in sport. In my hockey days, we had a pot for what we called a "Gordie Howe". Whoever had a goal, an assist and a fight in a game picked up the cash.

 

[slanidrac16]

He should be banned for a year.


Imagine this scenario...

Bounty on a player. A grand for a player being carried off the field. Player carried off the field because he was knocked unconcious suffers a severe brain injury goes into a coma and dies.

Manslaughter? Involuntary manslaughter? Can you imagine the legal aspects of this situation?

 

[Crazy Canuck]

He should be banned for a year.


Imagine this scenario...

Bounty on a player. A grand for a player being carried off the field. Player carried off the field because he was knocked unconcious suffers a severe brain injury goes into a coma and dies.

Manslaughter? Involuntary manslaughter? Can you imagine the legal aspects of this situation?

The possibility of complications following a hit, as you described, is inherent to the violence of the sport irrespective of any "bounty".

In the end, I believe it would play itself out in Civil Court as a suit for damages.

In hockey, for example, we had the Burtuzzi / Moore incident, which ended Moore's career. There is little doubt that Burtuzzi was out to avenge a hit on one of his teammates in a previous game. This was clearly stated prior to the game. The case was not prosecuted under your Criminal Code and Moore continues to seek remedy before the Civil Courts.