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On May 2, 2012, the NFL suspended four then-current or former Saints players for their involvement in the bounty scandal: Vilma was suspended for the entire 2012 NFL season. [5] Former Saints defensive tackle Anthony Hargrove was suspended for eight games. Saints defensive end Will Smith was suspended for four games.
The 2012 season was the New Orleans Saints' 46th in the National Football League (NFL) and their 37th playing home games at the Superdome.The Saints head coach was Sean Payton, but he was suspended by the NFL for the entire season as part of the punishment for the team's bounty scandal.
But once the scandal was uncovered, the Saints received some of the harshest sanctions in NFL history. ... Former general manager Mickey Loomis was suspended for the first eight games of the 2012 ...
The league suspended Williams indefinitely and Payton for one year and suspended the Saints' general manager and another assistant for parts of the 2012 season. Jonathan Vilma , a Saints player who had a major role in the scheme and reportedly offered a $10,000 bounty on Brett Favre , was suspended for the entire season and three other players ...
In March 2012, Williams was suspended indefinitely from the NFL as a result of his admitted involvement in the New Orleans Saints bounty scandal, under which bounties were paid for causing injuries that would take targeted players on opposing teams out of games. [3] Williams' suspension was lifted a year later, and he returned to the NFL.
2012: Bounty scandal. Vilma was a central figure in the New Orleans Saints bounty scandal. ... He was reactivated for the Saints' eighth game, a 26–20 loss to his ...
NEW ORLEANS — As New Orleans church leaders braced for the fallout from publishing a list of predatory Catholic priests, they turned to an unlikely ally: the front office of the city’s NFL ...
Loomis was one of the Saints officials to be penalized in 2012 in the aftermath of the New Orleans Saints bounty scandal, in which an NFL investigation found that players were paid bonuses from a pool for their on-field performance, including, allegedly, deliberately trying to knock opposing players out of games.