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13 Apr 2012

When the N.F.L.'s Culture of Violence Seemed Funny

Remembering Buddy and the Bounty Bowls. It is amazing how we hear the same rhetoric 23 years later.

Posted by: Mike Tanier on 13 Apr 2012

16 comments, Last at 03 Feb 2013, 5:11am by islamiyet

Comments

1
by Aaron Brooks Go... :: Fri, 04/13/2012 - 9:14am

Do kickers really count as NFL players?

Especially kickers in the late 80s?

2
by Independent George :: Fri, 04/13/2012 - 10:40am

Wife-slapping and drunk driving used to be mainstream punchlines, too.

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by Theo :: Sun, 04/15/2012 - 6:26pm

It's all fun and games, until someone loses an eye.

3
by Led :: Fri, 04/13/2012 - 10:52am

This is exactly like last time....except that the league actually found evidence of wrongdoing this time.

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by Lance :: Fri, 04/13/2012 - 2:24pm

I think that Golic was saying on Mike and Mike that there was no bounty in that game, and it was more like "hey, rookie, go take out that kicker."

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by erniecohen :: Sat, 04/14/2012 - 9:21pm

I think that the salient point is that 23 years ago, nobody cared whether players were being incented to hurt each other; the concern was that teams were paying players under the table.

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by RickD :: Sun, 04/15/2012 - 9:19pm

Incented?

(shudder)

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by nat :: Mon, 04/16/2012 - 9:10am

What's your problem?
The utilization of "incented" has a high degree of functionality, when actualized in a subjective framework.

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by Independent George :: Mon, 04/16/2012 - 11:42am

It's a perfectly cromulent word.

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by Bowl Game Anomaly :: Sun, 04/22/2012 - 1:48pm

The problem is that there's already a (sort-of) word for that- incentivised, which has a higher degree of functionality because "incent" doesn't mean anything.

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by Intropy :: Sun, 04/22/2012 - 2:38pm

I am incented that you would impugnify such a word.

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by Dragon Pie (not verified) :: Tue, 09/11/2012 - 12:52am

I'm more opposed to douchetastic grammar corrections than I am to unnecessary but functional neologimacizing.

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by Hank (not verified) :: Wed, 04/18/2012 - 5:01pm

It's the viewership that has also changed. Bounties don't have a place in a game of skill. This isn't wrestling.

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by Jakub (not verified) :: Tue, 08/07/2012 - 4:48pm

NFL is just going soft for the mainstream audience.

Too much money involved now, gotta protect their image.

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by sera (not verified) :: Mon, 10/15/2012 - 2:36pm

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