Monday, April 30, 2012


Saints GM Eavesdropping on visiting teams

                      
This is a picture of the saints GM Mickey Loomis
New Orleans saints General Manager Mickey Loomis has been eavesdropping on other teams for nearly three seasons. The Saints franchise has gotten themselves into a lot of trouble lately. The bounty scandal has taken head Coach Sean Payton out of the head coach position for one year. Mickey Loomis could listen to visiting coaches for most of the 2002-2004 seasons. The saints have hid this information for many years, it is recent news that they found out about the breaking of the rules.
                        A lot of this blame is being put on Mickey Loomis, if he knew about it should he be blamed? This is what Ben Teeter thought about this idea: “yeah, if he knew about it then it was his fault”. Since the blame is put on Loomis, rumors have it that he will be put on a 8 game suspension from GM of the Saints. There was a small survey done with some 7th grade students asking if he should be fired of just have a long suspension. There was some mixed answers, but most of the people questioned said that both Mickey Loomis and Head coach Sean Payton should be fired. This is another quote from Ben Teeter: “I think he should be fined, but not suspended because it happened a while ago”. This is true that it happened a while ago, but he still broke the rules of the NFL, so he should have some bigger penalties than a fine.  They did get penalties for the bounty violation, a loss in many draft picks and fines, but the eavesdropping penalties are still underway.                                          

Nick Wiley Media lit Per 5
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1 comment:

  1. Nick, an important lesson to be learned: if you know about something illegal, wrong, or immoral and you say nothing, it is just like you too lied. You are equally at fault by default. Although this could be seen as demonizing, the story lacks Loomis's P.O.V. and therefore is a better demonstration of excising.

    Ms. Clements

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