NFL: Saints Bounty Thread

[AsylumGuido]

(05-16-2012 10:34 AM)ATLBound Wrote:  You obviously didn't get the question I was asking. That is a freaking article from the picayune...you think I'm gonna believe them and their bias state when all they said is "Payton reportedly told the NFL he didn't read the email."

So once again...

Where is the statement from Payton?

I don't see it in that article, do you? I don't even see a statement from Ornstein advising the comment was in jest. Matter of fact Ornstein declined to comment. That was in the article...did you see that?

Here goes a Guido comment alert?

Maybe Ornstein didn't comment because he knew that comment wasn't in jest?

Okay, here is the article with Ornstein's quotes from last week again. Note that is an Associated Press article, not a Picayune article.

Mike Ornstein's email saying to put him down for bounty money is questioned

The email, obtained by The Associated Press, was written from prison by marketing agent Mike Ornstein shortly before the Saints' 2011 season opener against the Packers. Ornstein once represented Reggie Bush and later got to know members of the Saints' coaching staff.

The bulk of Ornstein's note to the Saints discusses his experiences in prison and offers sometimes brash words of encouragement to various coaches, including then-Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams. The last line states: "PS Gregg Williams put me down for $5000.00 on Rogers (sic)." Ornstein says now that was written "in total jest."

Ornstein was sentenced to eight months in federal prison, which he served in Florence, Colo., for conspiring to scalp Super Bowl tickets and hawking fake "game-worn" jerseys. He was released last fall.

"It's a running joke going for three years," Ornstein said in a phone interview this week, explaining that he had been kidding Williams about bounties ever since the NFC championship game in 2010, after which the Vikings told the NFL that they believed the Saints had a bounty on quarterback Brett Favre.