Yes, it's official: The NFLPA filed a lawsuit in a New Orleans Federal court this morning announcing that they are filing suit on behalf of at least 3 of the players suspended in the Saints BountyGate scandal.
The NFLPA is claiming the Jolly Roger (Goodell) violated the collective bargaining agreement by going public and naming Will Smith, Anthony Hargrove and Scott Fujita as guys who participated before giving them the benefit of a hearing.
Really?
The same NFLPA who released the document Anthony Hargrove signed saying he was told to deny his involvement in this?
Read that story RIGHT HERE
Yeah, we know Jonathan Vilma is filing his own lawsuit and yeah we know Saints fans believe the is NFL is conspiring against them.
**UPDATE**--The Jolly Roger (goodell) or at least his legal team filed a motion in court to dismiss the lawsuit that Vilma has brought forward. There's some discussion of a possible court appearance at the beginning of August for this, but nothing concrete--yet.
But why?
This also comes on the heels of Goodell's denial of the players appeals, so there's timing involved but there are also a TON of stupid questions:
Why would the NFLPA release the Hargrove statement?
Why would it later (much) be denied by Hargrove?
If these guys are "Truly" innocent...why haven't they just said "Show me proof that money changed hands?" And no, a piece of paper saying it happened isn't proof.
The whole thing is just stupid to us. It's quite obvious the NFL has what they believe to be total proof that "BountyGate" happened. But we also believe there is something in the evidence they don't want the public to see. What that is...we don't know.
At this point, we are growing weary of the whole thing. We kind of hope that everyone just shuts up. There seems to be no denial a "Bounty" system was in place, but yet the players and other seem to be going to great lengths to deny it.
WTF?
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