March 27, 2012--Pat Robertson's Bounty
Recently, the coach of the New Orleans Saint's football team was suspended for a year without pay because of his team's placing "bounties" on their opponents. The team established a pool of $50,000 and players were paid bounties for causing physical harm to the other team--$500 for causing a brain concussion; $1,000 for knocking the quarterback unconscious; Up to $10,000 if he needed to be carried off the field on a stretcher; and, who knows, even more if he was never again able to play football.
There was a $10,000 waiting for any of the Saints’ defensive players who seriously crippled Brett Favre, the Minnesota Vikings quarterback, in the 2010 National Football Conference playoff game.
Televangelist Pat Robertson has now placed his own bounty on former Denver Bronco's quarterback Payton Manning. This because the Broncos, he feels, treated Tim Tebow "shabbily" by signing Manning and trading Tebow to the New York Jets. On his TV show Robertson said that an injury to Manning "would serve them right."
Robertson came to the aid of the Tebow after the signal caller, who prominently prayed on the field during games, was shipped off to the New York Jets in a trade with Denver.
"The Denver Broncos treated him shabbily," Robertson said on his show, "The 700 Club."
"He won seven games, he brought Denver into the playoffs, for heaven sakes. [Indeed, for heaven's sakes.] I mean, they were a nothing team. He rallied them together with spectacular last-minute passes and, you know, when they beat Buffalo — I mean, Pittsburgh, excuse me — it was a tremendous victory." It sounds like Robertson is quite the NFL fan.
He had also came to Tebow's defense in December by blasting a "Saturday Night Live" parody that featured Jesus visiting the NFL star in the Broncos' locker room and chided Denver for signing four-time MVP Manning despite his missing all of last season because of a series of offseason neck surgeries.
"And you just ask yourself, OK, so Peyton Manning was a tremendous MVP quarterback, but he's been injured. If that injury comes back, Denver will find itself without a quarterback. And in my opinion, it would serve them right."
Too bad the NFL commissioner doesn't have the power to suspend Robertson.
There was a $10,000 waiting for any of the Saints’ defensive players who seriously crippled Brett Favre, the Minnesota Vikings quarterback, in the 2010 National Football Conference playoff game.
Televangelist Pat Robertson has now placed his own bounty on former Denver Bronco's quarterback Payton Manning. This because the Broncos, he feels, treated Tim Tebow "shabbily" by signing Manning and trading Tebow to the New York Jets. On his TV show Robertson said that an injury to Manning "would serve them right."
Robertson came to the aid of the Tebow after the signal caller, who prominently prayed on the field during games, was shipped off to the New York Jets in a trade with Denver.
"The Denver Broncos treated him shabbily," Robertson said on his show, "The 700 Club."
"He won seven games, he brought Denver into the playoffs, for heaven sakes. [Indeed, for heaven's sakes.] I mean, they were a nothing team. He rallied them together with spectacular last-minute passes and, you know, when they beat Buffalo — I mean, Pittsburgh, excuse me — it was a tremendous victory." It sounds like Robertson is quite the NFL fan.
He had also came to Tebow's defense in December by blasting a "Saturday Night Live" parody that featured Jesus visiting the NFL star in the Broncos' locker room and chided Denver for signing four-time MVP Manning despite his missing all of last season because of a series of offseason neck surgeries.
"And you just ask yourself, OK, so Peyton Manning was a tremendous MVP quarterback, but he's been injured. If that injury comes back, Denver will find itself without a quarterback. And in my opinion, it would serve them right."
Too bad the NFL commissioner doesn't have the power to suspend Robertson.
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