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Is it barbaric? Yes. Is it terrifying? Yes. Is it sick? Yes. So what? I’ve said it before and I will say it again: That is why we watch football. Because it is barbaric and terrifying and sick. Because we love good hits and kamikaze safety blitzes and a quarterback sitting on the field after a sack with visions of Tweety Bird dancing in his brain.
-- Buzz Bissinger, author of "Friday Night Lights"
The NFL has been hit by some controversy, as it has gotten out that the Saints have been using "bounties" to give players incentives to take out other players by inflicting injury. I have come across one report of "a $10,000 incentive to knock Brett Favre out of the 2009 NFC title game." I stopped following sports and football before I left my teen years behind me, but this is an interesting story, and I have to admit this is not a bad piece of film, even if it is a little gruesome:
-- Buzz Bissinger, author of "Friday Night Lights"
The NFL has been hit by some controversy, as it has gotten out that the Saints have been using "bounties" to give players incentives to take out other players by inflicting injury. I have come across one report of "a $10,000 incentive to knock Brett Favre out of the 2009 NFC title game." I stopped following sports and football before I left my teen years behind me, but this is an interesting story, and I have to admit this is not a bad piece of film, even if it is a little gruesome:
