NFL: Saints Bounty Thread

[UCSBDirtyBird]

(12-12-2012 06:38 PM)AsylumGuido Wrote:  Sorry, but you obviously don't understand the reason for the suit. It has nothing to do with money. It really doesn't even have anything to do with winning. It has EVERYTHING to do with making every piece of the evidence and the damning of the supposed witnesses public domain. This will clear Vilma's name and that is all that he wants.

As I have discussed within this very thread with our resident attorney, Dave, there is no way to win the suit because I also believe Goodell believed the lies told by Cerullo so there was no malice. I have said that all along. But, until the public, and the corporations that were supporting Jon Vilma's Haiti Foundation see everything it hurts his ability to help his people and to have a successful life after football. That is what this is all about.

Jon Vilma is extremely intelligent and well respected across the league. He simply wants to clear his name. If Tagliabue were to release all transcripts from the hearings I would guarantee you that Vilma would drop the suit.

I must have missed your admission that the suit had no merit. My mistake, I should have read all 180 pages.

I fully expect to see the transcripts in whole at some point. There is too much interest in them to not see their release, legal or otherwise. Unlike you though, I don't see Vilma dropping his suit. There will likely be things in that transcript that will muddy the waters of Vilma's "I had no part in a bounty program" defense. Heck, you posted an article since my last post that shows that Williams wanted to shut down the bounty program (I don't know how you can split a hair so fine as to draw a distinction between pay for pain and bounty) but Vitt overruled him. That statement goes a long way toward showing that there was much more than a mere pay for performance program scheme going on. Whether or not Vilma held up money will not be the deciding factor in the general public's mind. To many, the main leader on a defense that was paid for injuring other players is going to take a credibility hit. His name won't be cleared no matter how hard he tries.