Saints Players Took Many Missteps in Appeals Process and Paid the Price

July 3, 2012   ·   Knox Bardeen   ·   Jump to comments

National Football League commissioner Roger Goodell ruled Tuesday that none of the four disciplined players—Jonathan Vilma, Anthony Hargrove, Will Smith or Scott Fujita—would have their suspensions reduced.
Vilma will still miss the entire 2012 season with Hargrove suspended eight games. Smith and Fujita will still miss four and three games, respectively for their part in the New Orleans Saints’ pay-for-performance bounty program from 2009-2011.
In upholding his original ruling, Goodell not only took a hard-line stance with the players, but in a letter informing them of his appeals decision he laid out several missteps the players took during the appeals process.
Throughout this entire process, including your appeals, and despite repeated invitations and encouragement to do so, none of you has offered any evidence that would warrant reconsideration of your suspensions. Instead, you elected not to participate meaningfully in the appeal process…&nb...

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