From Pro Football Zone:
Former Minnesota Vikings wide receiver and current ESPN analyst Cris Carter admitted on Hill and Schlereth on ESPN Radio that he participated in bounties during his NFL career.
“I’m guilty of it,” Carter said. “It’s the first time I’ve ever admitted it. But I put a bounty on guys before. I put bounties on guys. And the guys tried to take me out, a guy tried to take a cheap shot on me, I put a bounty on him, right now.”
Schlereth then asked, “A money bounty?”
“Absolutely,” Carter replied.
“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 take me out before the game, in warm-ups. 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.”
Carter was asked if he was the only one to participate in bounties and he replied, “Heck no!”
Carter even admitted that he doesn’t have any regrets.
“Matter of fact, if I see a couple of them dudes that was trying to cheap shot me walking through ESPN, I’d put a bounty on them right now.”
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He says "No Regrets"
Rest assured, though, even if players aren't allowed to place money on hits now, tackling isn't going to get one bit softer.
this is not news!!
He has ex-players suing the NFL for not doing anything to stop the violent blows to the head causing suicide in MANY ex-players, and he has current NFL players BITC**NG that he is taking all the violenc from the game!(how much do you want to bet after J. Harrisson has retired from the NFL that he sues for his cronic depression from his violent head hits)
Change is something that will always be met with contempt.BUT IT IS NEEDED,i'll say it again,IT IS NEEDED, if you dont believe me just ask Junior's family and mother who was so heartbroken on TV.
Also, the saints players should be very thankfull(and so should carter) that the government hasnt stepped in and put these people in jail(just like tanya). PAYING MONEY TO ANYONE OR OFFERRING MONEY TO ANYONE TO DO PHYSICAL HARM TO ANYONE UNDER ANY CIRCUNSTANCE IS ILLEGAL! IT DOESNT MATTER IF IT WAS IN THE CONFINES OF A SPORTING EVENT!
If i offered to pay someone to pay someone to break someones leg outside of the NFL and it was on tape the FBI would step in and put me behind bars for 10-15 years. I think the players and coaches got off light!!!!
Who cares,neither was the patriots video taping!
"Not only in Pro football but even as far down as high school football."
All the more reason to punish them and root out all examples of it.
"For the league to use the Saints as a scape goat for a system that has been around for ages is ridiculous and shameful."
Many coaches came out after the pats video scandal and said signal stealling and recording had been around since the videocamera had been invented but nobody said thier punishment was unfair(not even Bill or Robert)
How long or how often it has been happening has absoluteley nothing to do with weather or not its right to do!!!!
I just think its strange how when Tanya did it to Nancy she was criminnally prosecuted and banned from the olympics forever!
I just think its strange that when a criminal offers money to some one to do physical harm to another human being he is criminally prosecuted and put in prison for 10-15.
I think the players should be thankful that roger hasn't turned over all his evidence to the Governments commity on organized crime!
Um, not if the bounty you put out for "protection" basically involves taking the other guy out first before he gets you. A bounty is a bounty is a bounty.
Regarding Romanowski, he was just as much about messing you mentally as he was about messing with you physically. If you were a wide receiver running a short crossing route, and Romanowski told you before the game he was going to "take you out" or "end your career" you'd probably be looking over your shoulder instead of looking for the ball. It's just trash talk, but made more effective because Romanoski would actually lay some hits on people.
I'm Stunned and without Words, to think a sport populated by criminals and overpaid premadonna's could ever evolve anything like a Bounty System; Who'd a Thunk it!!!!
Course I still watch and enjoy the aformentioned pounding the S--T out of each other, whats not to like and paying each other to put on big hurt, wow.
NFL=Not For Long and with the BS comming down on favorite passtime may be almost past its time.
TLM, I was thinking exactly the same thing. Player's union is probably going to be all over Carter telling him to shut his pie hole.
And if anyone out there thought that the Saints were the only team doing this, or even the only team to doing it to the extent that the Saints were, dream on. Before this is over, the NFL will have to probe every franchise. There will be retired players who need money selling their "bounty" stories to any and all who will listen. Probably no team will go untouched. This will be like steroids in baseball times 100.
He may just be protecting the players involved and thier futures... but nobodys thinking about that.
Its the american way..."its not the saints plers fault its rogers fault.its not my fault its his,blame him not me,"pass the buck,always.
I just think its funny that when the pats were punished for doing something many coaches say happened everywhere since the invention of the video camera,nobody ever said the punishments were unfair, not even Bill or Mr. Kraft, they were more interested in putting it behind them than prolonging the problem and letting it interfere with the future of the league.
CRIMINAL PROSECUTION!
In my opinion its the same as the mob putting a contract on someone and should be punnished under the same statutes!
IM GOING TO PRISON FOR MANY CRIMES!
THE OFFERING OF A CONTRACT TO HURT SOMEONE FOR MONEY IS AND SHOULD BE ILLEGAL NO MATTER WHERE OR HOW OFTEN IT OCCURS!!!!!!!!!!
PLAIN AND SIMPLE
CASE CLOSED!