Detroit Lions Tampering Case Settled in the Most Unsettling of Ways

April 3, 2011   ·   Brenda Summers   ·   Jump to comments

It has been big news in the Detroit Lions world that the front office was accused of tampering by the Kansas City Chiefs in December 2010. By February, the NFL Commissioner, Roger Goodell, ruled that the Lions were guilty of this accusation. 
The Lions were told they could appeal the decision on or before February 28th.  The deadline came and went, and no word was uttered about if the Lions had chosen to file an appeal or not. 
The charge was reportedly geared toward Gunther Cunningham, the defensive coordinator for the Lions.  Cunningham knows many of the players on the Kansas City Chiefs team because he was their defensive coordinator prior to coming to Detroit. 
The whole tampering issue came out of "Gunner" (Gunther) making a general comment to the Detroit Free Press about the Chiefs' propensity to drop many of their players and how he would gladly have some of these players sign with the Lions.  No one was specifically named.
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