Cris Carter Bounties for Protection

[CablexDeadpool]

Cris Carter reveals he has put "bounties" on serveral defensive players for "protection"


"Protect me. . . . Protect me from him. . . . Especially if he's playing a different position where I can't protect myself," Carter said. "I'd tell one of them guards, ‘Hey man, this dude is after me, man. Bill Romanowski.' He told me he's gonna me out before the game, in warmups. No problem. ‘I'm gonna end your career, Carter.' No problem. I put a little change on his head before the game. Protect myself, protect my family. That's the league that I grew up in."



This whole bounty thing is getting dumber and dumber. I don't mind players putting money on each other as long as it is "within the rules" hits. The Saints were giving out legal hits, no flags were called.

Now Cris Carter was putting bread out on defensive guys...

It's Football.

[LAKESHOW]

he specifically mentioned bill romanowski. that dude played every game as if a bounty was involved. some say dirty. but im not here to judge, only to say that he was a tough sob. so with romanowski, i can see where cris carter needed some protection.

[Icness]

This whole bounty thing is getting dumber and dumber. I don't mind players putting money on each other as long as it is "within the rules" hits. The Saints were giving out legal hits, no flags were called.

Now Cris Carter was putting bread out on defensive guys...

It's Football.

I don't disagree, but I think that notion of "football" is getting passe and outdated. The game is not sustainable in that fashion anymore. That's going to be very hard for a lot of diehard old-school fans to accept, but this increased emphasis on player safety and awareness of the post-football health and mental issues of so many retired players has forever changed the argument. Increased safety measures cannot be rolled back.

I predict that within a decade:
--quarterbacks will not be allowed to be touched, period.
--there will be no special team returns. Punts will be fair caught and kickoffs eliminated; all possessions will start at the 25.
--any tackler leading with his helmet will be ejected immediately, for his own safety as much as for the opponent. They can call it the James Harrison Rule after he paralyzes himself doing it for the thousandth time.

Shameless plug, but read the link in my sig for my deeper thoughts on this issue.

[Worm Guts]

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--quarterbacks will not be allowed to be touched, period.

If they could, they probably would but I don't see how that's workable.

[SpeedyG]

This whole bounty thing is getting dumber and dumber. I don't mind players putting money on each other as long as it is "within the rules" hits. The Saints were giving out legal hits, no flags were called.

Now Cris Carter was putting bread out on defensive guys...

It's Football.

I don't disagree, but I think that notion of "football" is getting passe and outdated. The game is not sustainable in that fashion anymore. That's going to be very hard for a lot of diehard old-school fans to accept, but this increased emphasis on player safety and awareness of the post-football health and mental issues of so many retired players has forever changed the argument. Increased safety measures cannot be rolled back.

I predict that within a decade:
--quarterbacks will not be allowed to be touched, period.
--there will be no special team returns. Punts will be fair caught and kickoffs eliminated; all possessions will start at the 25.
--any tackler leading with his helmet will be ejected immediately, for his own safety as much as for the opponent. They can call it the James Harrison Rule after he paralyzes himself doing it for the thousandth time.

Shameless plug, but read the link in my sig for my deeper thoughts on this issue.

This will suck so bad.