Originally Posted by
bricooper78
half off topic, but if they have, say, $1,000 for a pick-6, is that a bounty, and illegal?
(say the coach sticks a check above the locker room door, and says "whoever gets the first pick 6 takes this check home with them")
if it is illegal, is this kind of thing just in the contracts as incentives?
If the coach does that, yes, technically it is illegal, because it's a way of circumventing the salary cap by paying players "off the books" money that is not in their contract.
in most cases though, the players are throwing their own money into a "pool" to pay out for these things.
I don't really have a problem with players rewarding one another for a sack, forced fumble or interception, but I can see how that would be a "gray area." I have a huge problem with rewarding a player for intentionally causing injury to an opponent and taking him out of the game. The sport is dangerous enough as it is. Nobody should be trying to injure another player, beyond the pain that is naturally inflicted on one 300 pound man when he collides with another 300 pound man at full speed.
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