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“Bounty Gate” has hung like a dark cloud over the New Orleans Saints organization and yesterday, the team got a little retribution. According to NFL.com
A collective bargaining agreement appeals panel overturned the NFL’s suspensions of four players for their involvement in the New Orleans Saints‘ “bounty” program, NFL Players Association spokesman George Atallah said Friday.
While the suspensions are vacated immediately, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell can go back and suspend the four players if he proves there was an intent to injure. NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said all players are eligible to play, starting this weekend, until Goodell does so.
While Goodell can and probably will reinstate the suspensions, it is a major blow to the case Goodell tried to build against the Saints players