Saints accused of "Bounty Program". Thoughts?

[taltos]

Originally Posted by Remo_5_0

Bounties may not get spoken out loud from now on, but a few grand in the pocket and a steak dinner can't be beat

Until the IRS gets involved due to undeclared income. I hope that they get the same hatred that was given the Patriots.

[Stephen]

All I know is that some dude's had to have made some coin beating the piss out of Brett Favre a couple of years ago.

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by taltos

Until the IRS gets involved due to undeclared income.

Yep. That's going to be the biggest fallout from all of this i think.

Originally Posted by taltos

I hope that they get the same hatred that was given the Patriots.

Spygate and this aren't even in the same league.

Originally Posted by taltos

Until the IRS gets involved due to undeclared income. I hope that they get the same hatred that was given the Patriots.

Yeah the steaks and cash would be income for the players, compensation really. Unless they some how can structure it as "meals and entertainment" or some other avoidance measure. I'd imagine it would be a tax deductable business expense for the team though.

Originally Posted by ChicagoWhiteSox

Yeah the steaks and cash would be income for the players, compensation really. Unless they some how can structure it as "meals and entertainment" or some other avoidance measure. I'd imagine it would be a tax deductable business expense for the team though.

I guess the players could possible structure the payments as "eligible" ordinary dividends, which would be taxed at long-term capital gain tax rates, which would surely be better than prizes and award taxe rates. Other than that, they will pay taxes on the payments recieved in some fashion. With the payments most likely being very large, it's worth it for the IRS to poke their noses around.

I don't have a problem with bounty payments. Makes for interesting football. The problem is with the rules and shitty calls being made.

[Sauer Grapes]

Originally Posted by taltos

Until the IRS gets involved due to undeclared income. I hope that they get the same hatred that was given the Patriots.

This is different than spy gate in many ways. In some ways it is much worse (mainly that they were trying to injure opposing players). In some ways it isn't as bad (it didn't likely change the outcome of many games, if any).

Sure, they saints have been "good" for several years, but they haven't built a dynasty on cheating.

Neither this or spy gate are acceptable.

[proguy747]

Originally Posted by taltos

Until the IRS gets involved due to undeclared income. I hope that they get the same hatred that was given the Patriots.

Big difference between gambling and cheating.