The NFL came down awfully hard on the New Orleans Saints this offseason for their alleged bounty program. Now it appears that commissioner Roger Goodell and the league are taking steps to ensure that those actions never take place again. After a meeting with Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the second-ranking democrat in the senate, on Wednesday, Goodell announced that the NFL would be taking steps to avoid any future payouts through programs such as creating an anonymous bounty tip line, according to CNN.com. Goodell made it explicitly clear in his news conference that the league has and will not...
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