Sean Payton, New Orleans Saints head coach, was suspended for a year after reports of a “bounty” system was being used by his team.
An NFL scandal of these proportions has never been seen before. They were reprimanded to the nth degree, and Roger Goodell took it upon himself to make a statement, one with no grey area about the issue. He called it “particularly unusual and egregious" and "totally unacceptable."A shame. A travesty. And a focal point for the Saints.
New Orleans is a town where beads are a common currency. Cajun isn’t a style of cooking, it’s a way of life. And these lives, the ones who once wore brown paper sacks over their heads to football games, were turned upside down by Hurricane Katrina and the flooding the ensued.
They have the Saints, and boy, do the Saints have New Orleans.
“We are humbled by the support our organization has received from our fans today in the wake of this announcement, and we ask them to continue to stand with us, as they have done in the past, when both our team and our city have overcome greater adversities,” the New Orleans Saints said in a response to the NFL rulings.
New Orleans knows what it feels like to decimated. The Saints know what it feels like to be the loner on the playground. This is nothing.
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