re: Vilma complaint outlines all aleged flaws in bounty case

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The best you can hope for is the courts helping the players out.

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I agree TigerinATL and unfortunately, the Saints will never have a significant ally in the situation. As you point out the owners aren’t going to kill their golden goose. Since the Saints were a very legitimate Superbowl contender, most NFL fans take pleasure in all of this and it is in their favor for things to work out bad for the Saints. This gives the media all the reason in the world to continue to make the Saints out to be the unprecedented bad guys and not dig for or report evidence that demonstrates that Goodell went much too far, too fast in his destruction of the Saints team.

It is surreal to me that how Goodell has devastated one of the top teams in the NFL with many contradictions, vague allegations, clear evidence (or at least evidence deserving of investigation) that much of his allegations were false, misrepresented or never revealed to anyone. Yet there is no outrage against him or any prominent discussion of the major injustice that has been done to New Orleans. It’s really sad for Saints fans, but because of the reasons stated above and as surreal as it may seem to me nothing positive will happen for the Saints. I don’t think there will be any reduction in any penalty.

It is correct the courts are the only opportunity for justice in this case, but they’ll have to have evidence that the NFL won’t provide or will claim it has destroyed.