Why Saints' "BountyGate" is no Surprise

Sports are used as a window into society, and based solely on sport you can tell a lot about our culture today. Football is the number one sport in America, only because it exhibits the most amount of violence out of any sport played here today. Earlier in the week, it was reported on ESPN that the New Orleans Saints' coaching staff was offering their players money for "big hits," and injuring opposing players. In todays society, we love violence and our values would support that. We discussed how our values are shown through sport in class on February 2.


In the article Ashley Fox discusses the "bounties" the Saints coaching staff was allegedly placing on other players and how the players were compensated for them. Many other former and current players have come out saying this system is in place all around the league with many organizations, the Saints were just the first ones caught. It is not surprising at all like I said earlier, based on many sports fans values nowadays. As fans we want to see the big hits and the teams want the upper edge so why not try to hurt opposing players? The article also discusses possible penalties handed down by the commissioners office.
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/7645118/saints-coach-sean-payton-gm-mickey-loomis-deserve-fired-bounty-program

In Coakley's text, he discusses our values and how sport is a mirror of society on page 18. He claims that sports reaffirm our beliefs because they show through in the games we love. Sports are a great way to show off America's beliefs and ideals, because millions of people in the country love and participate in sport. These violent acts in football that the Saints have committed are just another place our beliefs and culture are showing through

http://news.yahoo.com/video/sports-15749645/new-orleans-saints-face-sanctions-for-bounty-gate-28514896.html#crsl=%252Fvideo%252Fsports-15749645%252Fnfl-bounty-scandal-could-end-up-in-courts-28518006.html