The NFL Hall of Famer Brett Favre was once a measure of a bounty hunting scheme of New Orleans Saints and opened 15 years later about this experience in a thread of X Friday.
In 2009, the Saints offered their players cash incentives to harm certain players. Favre, Quarterback by Minnesota Vikings at the time, was on that list.
The Vikings were considered the top obstacle in the NFC for the saints to reach the Super Bowl that year.
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Brett Favre is helped from the field after being injured. (Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via Getty Images)
The saints beat the Favre and the Vikings in the NFC Championship Game that year, a 31-28 overtime thriller. Favre was never injured, but he took several hard hits and ended up throwing a costly interception in overtime.
Favre said he did not hold any “sick will” against the saints of the scandal and wanted him to play better in the game.
“I played the game with the mindset of being prepared for something: big hits, injuries and players who tried to turn off my head. I never made excuses for the times I didn’t succeed and played the game within the rules. In fact, to lose Just made me want to work harder and burned my drive to win next time, ”Favre wrote.
“I don’t have any bad will against them ,.
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Minnesota Vikings Quarterback Brett Favre heads to the sidelines after throwing a passport captured by Chicago Bears’ Julius Peppers at TCF Bank Stadium in Minneapolis 20 December 2010. (Reuters/Eric Miller)
The saints won the Super Bowl that year against the Indianapolis Colts.
But when the scandal was uncovered, the saints received some of the harshest sanctions in the NFL history. Former head coach Sean Payton was suspended for a year without pay.
The defensive coordinator Greg Williams, identified as the brains of the plan, was suspended indefinitely, but was later reinstated. Former General Manager Mickey Loomis was suspended in the first eight games of the 2012 season, and assistant head coach Joe Vitt was suspended in the first six games of that year.
Former Saints players Scott Fujita, Anthony Hargrove, Will Smith and Jonathan Vilma were all suspended for their roles.
New Orleans Saint’s main coach Sean Payton looks over plays on the sidelines. (AP Photo/Bill Feig)
The saints also had to pay a fine of $ 500,000 and forfeit their second round elections in 2012 and 2013 draft
The team’s bounty hunting plan involved as many as 27 players and at least one assistant coach who found the league in his investigation. Players even contributed to a cash pool.
The players were paid $ 1,500 for a “knockout” as a targeted player couldn’t return to the game and $ 1,000 for a “carriage-off” when a player had to be worn off the field.
