Dogged are the bounty hunters

So now cheap shots carry a tidy price-tag.

Last weekend, the bounty scandal blew up in the face of the NFL. First, the league itself found the New Orleans Saints guilty of offering illegal incentives to injure opposing players. Before long, newspaper investigations had linked three more franchises to an ugly practise with a cute name; Pay-For-Pain.

Let’s scan the menu, see what kind of a bang you get for your buck; $1,000 for a ‘cart-off’, where your opponent has to be helped off the field; $1,500 for a ‘knockout’, where he doesn’t come back.