Can you feel that? I sure can. It’s beginning to feel like football season!Although the professional football season is just
around the corner it now seems like there is football news all year round.The off-season is more than the draft or what
free agent signed with what new team. The NFL football off-season is now full
of stuff lawyers love; investigations and law-suits.
The two big legal stories that dominated the professional off-season
were the investigation of the New Orleans Saints for putting bounties on
opposing players and the ongoing litigation over concussions suffered by former
players.
In the first case the New Orleans Saints have been accused
of putting bounties on players from opposing teams. What this means is that
Saints defensive players were each putting up a certain amount of money and
whoever knocked an opposing player out for a few plays, or for the rest of a
game, was awarded the pot of money. This is, however, against NFL rules and the
Saints were punished, …