Message #18171

[Kilika]

Well I guess somebody got mad and stirred this up. Bounties have existed in football ever since I first placed organized football as a kid. Not quite the same payments of course, but players going after certain players is old news in football.

When I was a senior in high school, my school, King High in Tampa played Leto High, whos starting qb was my then girlfriend's, and later wife, ex-boyfriend. His name was Fontes, and his dad is Wayne Fontes. Look it up. Fontes is an ex-coach and head coach in the NFL. He coached with the Bucs back then, then on to Detriot I think. Anyway...

We played them that year at our school, and they were ranked 7th in the state, and we weren't ranked. We had just beaten the previous week the number 1 team, Plant High at their school. Once my girlfriend told me who was their starting quaterback, I put the word out to the defensive front line that I wanted him out of the game. He was out of the game by halftime, and we beat them in overtime, and were ranked the next week in the state polls as high as number 5 I think. We ended up barely having a winning season at 6-4, but we made some noise for awhile.

The point is that anybody that has played organized football knows about bounties. I realize that the NFL thing is about cash payments, but it's the same results; an injured player for the sake of putting them out of a game. Not cool at all.