Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe seems irate over the New Orleans Saints bounty scandal. He told “Judd & Phunn” on 1500 ESPN that he would like to see Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma and former Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams banned from the NFL.
“I was pleased,” Kluwe said when asked about Goodell’s actions per ESPN1500. “My position has always been that I think Vilma and Gregg Williams should be banned for life and then Payton should get a year, their GM should get a year and anyone who knowingly took money after a hit that injured someone should get a year as well.”
During the 2009 NFC Championship game, Kluwe clearly saw the Saints defense going after former Vikings quarterback Brett Favre, but didn’t want to believe it.
“Me and Ryan (Longwell) were kind of looking at each other on the bench going, ‘Are they really going after Brett?’” Kluwe said. “Like, ‘Is this really what they’re doing?’ But you don’t want to believe that something like that is happening because you think better of the other players.
“You don’t want to think that they’re doing something like that. I think that was part of the thing that the league was looking at (in its investigation) was like, ‘OK, we’ve really got to make sure that this is true because otherwise it’s going to make the sport look really bad.’”
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Hurry, someone needs to call Chris Kluwe a Waaaahmbulance!
People like Clint should not be fans of an honorable but tough sport like football. They should be watching cagefighting, boxing or some other sport where the purpose is to intentionally hurt and knock the other guy out. That’s not the purpose of football and regardless of all the stupid nonsense we are reading where people justify this activity (where the intention is to injure and cart off other football players), as part of the game. They only expose their own moral deficiency, lack of sportsmanship, and lack of their own personal ethics.
Don’t confuse, playing fair and hitting hard, and tackling well with playing dirty. Instead, we should all be concerned about the thug mentality taking over football where someone gets team praise, honor and a few extra bucks for injuring another person. These guys who have been found guilty of participating in this type of system and actually injuring other players should pay dearly for what they have done. They need to feel it in their own wallet and through severe suspension in order to rid this behavior from the game.
Thanks Chris Kluwe for having the courage to speak your mind and stand up for your principles. There should be hundreds of football players with his courage to speak out.